U S Employment Bureau Opens to Match Workers and Employers
The U S Labor Department completes preliminary work for a federal employment bureau. Postmasters will hand out blank forms to the unemployed to detail age, trade, nationality, former employers and wage expectations. Answers will be sent to the department for matching with employers, with transportation questions a key hurdle.
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Wilson
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Caminetti
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Treasury
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Pigs Born with Tusks Thriving After Owner Clips
Lumberton North Carolina report by J G Bundy describes a litter of eleven pigs born with tusks about three quarters of an inch long. Bundy broke off the tusks with pliers and the pigs are doing well. Some say crossing breeds explains the tusks though this remains guesswork.
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Lumberton
N. C
J. G. Bundy
Overalls for Baby Sayre From Texas Ranger
Colonel Bill McDonald presents blue jean overalls to Francis Sayre the White House baby. He admits sending the breeches while noting Mrs. McDonald made them. The president thanks Mike Donovan for boxing gloves gift and predicts the baby will use them when ready.
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Washington
Bill McDonald
Texas Ranger
Francis Sayre
White House
Bill
Yaas
McDonald
Texas
Mike Donovan
Horse Long a Prisoner
In Muncie Indiana a farmer near Yorktown has kept a horse confined in a stall for eight years after it ran away with the farmer when three. The animal has had no exercise and grown nervous, reacting to the slightest noise. Humane society officials doubt a cruelty conviction but may file a charge seeking to force sale to avoid prosecution.
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Muncie
Ind
Humane Society
Yorktown
Diagram Illustrates British Field Hospital Chain
A Paris war correspondent describes a British army medical system from the firing line to base hospital. The diagram shows regimental aid posts, field ambulances, advanced and main dressing stations, a collecting hospital, and the base hospital with surgical facilities.
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Paris
Nationwide rise in cost of bread prompts price hikes
City bakers in New York and major urban centers warn of higher loaf prices as flour costs jump from 4.50 to about 7.80 per barrel since August. Some shops may reduce loaf size. experts cite European grain demand and speculative markets. Housewives' league urges wheat embargo while noting corn meal as a cheaper substitute.
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New York
Europe
Julian Heath
The
Housewives’ League
A Stubborn Husband
A joke caption from the Wausaus City Star notes a stubborn husband and a delaying engagement as a comic exchange about who is more obstinate. The conversational quip contrasts a planned 8 o'clock meeting with a 4 30 arrival and lingering insistence that rest helped.
Last Tribute to Nurnberg as US Ship Salutes Before Destruction
The German cruiser Nurnberg sailed from Honolulu with three cheers from American sailors as the band played the German national hymn. The ship was destroyed in the Falklands action on December 8. A sailor’s Oct. 11, 1914 letter describes the farewell and fear of British forces outside the harbor.
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United States
Berlin
Honolulu
Nurnberg
Falkland Islands
Admiral von Spee
Woman seeks to adopt four year old Patrick Hastings
Mrs Ida Mae Hastings Smith filed in county court to adopt her son Patrick Warren Hastings with Frederick D L Smith joining. Patrick's father Warren Hastings is dead and guardian Emily F Roley was appointed. Adoption aims to secure inheritance eligibility for the child.
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Chicago
Patrick Warren Hastings
Ida Mae Hastings Smith
Glenwood Avenue
Frederick DL. Smith
Patrick
Warren W. Hastings
Hastings
Smith
Lee
Hackett
Washington Boulevard
Emily F. Roley
Prairie Avenue
Five Year Old Deaf Boy Compared to Helen Keller
Ernest Smith, five, deaf, mute and nearly blind, once treated as mentally defective, has improved dramatically after care at the Missouri School for the Blind. An operation aided his left eye, and educators report remarkable sensory development and strong preferences, with Mrs. F W Baumhoff praising his keen observation.
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St. Louis
Ernest Smith
City
Missouri
International Sunshine Society
Helen Keller
Missouri School For the Blind
F. W. Baumhoff
Missouri Sunshine Society
Henry VIII credited with first English neckband collar
An old historian claims King Henry VIII was the first English king to wear a neck collar similar to modern styles. He reportedly used a plain band about one to two inches deep around the neck.
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Henry VIII
Boxwood valued for engraving in U S industry
Boxwood, costly wood used regularly in an established U S industry for wood engraving, has been quoted at 4 cents per cubic inch and about $1,800 per thousand pounds. The proverb The world's a stage is noted, with a cheeky line about most of us getting the hook.
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United States
Bottle feeding saves bees in winter brood cycle
Chicago a apiarist H H Thale of Maywood Missouri with 500 colonies feeds young bees via a sugar and water bottle placed on the hive ledge. Through a valve the mixture drips into a steel trough feeding the bees during cold spells. Thale marketed 11 000 pounds of honey last year.
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Chicago
H. H. Thale
Maywood
Thale
German Rule in Belgium Proclaimed by General von Bissing
Antwerp Governor General von Bissing issues a proclamation declaring his orders the only laws in Belgium and stating that edicts of the king have no force, asserting German authority over the occupied territory.
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Belgium
Antwerp
von Bissing
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