Wealthy Woman Helps Poor Man’s Family On Westward Drive
A wealthy woman in a red car shares a noonday ride with a weary worker at a drawbridge. She offers aid but learns he won’t take charity directly. She proposes helping his wife, a seamstress, by offering work and arranging a meeting at 1712 Allen Street, promising to return Saturday. The encounter leaves her pondering the worker’s pride and poverty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles
Barry
Lucky Forbes
Ailea
Tom
Allen Street
Drawbridge
Fortunate Workman Reveals Hidden Charity Realist
A refined woman exchanges dinner with a famed philanthropist only to learn that the dinner guest was a disguised student of social problems who has mingled with workers. He explains his study, reveals Reeves’s false generosity, and proposes their future collaboration as friends and co workers.
Chinese Rebels Seek Funds To Back northward Campaign
Sun Yat Sen and Republican leaders push to seize financial institutions railroads and steamship lines to raise money and facilities for the war against the Manchus. General Hsu orders immediate recruitment training and arming across Hankow Wu Chang Shanghai and other centers with plans for a standing army and reserve forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nanking
Sun Yat Sen
Republic of China
Republic
Hsu
Hankow
Wu Chang
Shanghai
Domitory Fire Strikes Raleigh Orphanage. Three Buildings Lost
A early morning blaze at the Catholic State orphanage in Raleigh destroyed three structures, costing about 312,000. The fire began in the laundry building after evening repairs, but the new dormitory and main administration building remained intact, avoiding loss of life as a hundred children had been moved to the new dormitory.
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Raleigh
N. C
Catholic State Orphanage
Oelock
Doans Kidney Pills Back Pain Relief Endorsed
Mrs Elizabeth Eckhardt of Front Royal Virginia credits Doans Kidney Pills with ending her back and kidney pain after a short use. She states she was frail and discouraged until the remedy, now she has had no kidney trouble for three years. The ad urges readers to ask for Doans Kidney Pills from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Dean
Elizabeth Eckhardt
Main Street
Front Royal
Doan
Bessie York
Huntington
W. Va
Bill to Prohibit Doctors Testimony in Injury Cases
In Richmond Virginia a Senate panel heard Senator Wendenburg push a bill to bar physicians and nurses from testifying in court about patient injuries or conditions without consent. He cited cases where pain, anesthesia, or corporate interest influenced testimony and urged protection for patients against medical witnesses. A request for further hearings was noted as the committee set another session for January 1.
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Richmond
Wendenburg
Senate Committee For Courts of Justice
Senate
Vendenbnre
Eyts
Alex. J. Guigon
Virginia Railway and Power Company
Henrico
HH. S. Mec
Lewin
Gin Guigon
Guigon
Wendenburs
Seven a.m. School Mains in Old Dominion 1910
Richmond Va Special. Virginia census 1910 reports state population 2,061,612 with 1,032,048 women and 202,590 school age girls six to thirteen. High school age girls 14 to 17 total 194,297. college age 18 to 21 87,620. Virginia had 10,093 teachers, 7,000 women. 1,051 high school teachers with 596 women. 430 high schools. no training facilities for women high school teachers. Randolph-Macon Woman's College, founded 1898, now endowment 250,000 and 563 students. 40 turned away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
Collee
Randolph Macon Woman's College
Falling Derrick Breaks Leg at Bank Building Site
Richmond area report details William N. Beatty, 33, of 804 East City Street, injured while a steel derrick toppled during unloading at Ninth and Main for the First National Bank building. A horse tied to a wagon was killed by a falling beam. Beatty received care from Dr. Julian Hutcher and was taken to Memorial Hospital. recovery hoped.
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Richmond
First National Bank
Ninth and Main Streets
William N. Beatty
East City Street
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Ninth and Canal
Julian Hutcher
Memorial Fospital
Muinky
State seeks normal school for city councilmen and delegates
A Staunton Leader quote asserts the state desires a normal school to train city councilmen and delegates to the Legislature, signaling calls for formal education or credentialing for local and state lawmakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Staunton
Lesner Plan For State Convicts In Virginia Roads
A Virginia Senate bill proposed by Senator Lesner would put state penitentiary convicts to road work and manufacture for state institutions, with no private sales. It authorizes a penitentiary manufacturing plant, sets annual supply commitments, and reassigns convict labor to roads and institutional needs, funded by appropriations totaling $350,000, under supervision of the penitentiary superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Senate
Net
Norfolk
Lesner
Board of Directors
State Penitentiary
Thacher Boot and Shoe Company
Mad dog scare in Lynchburg spreads to Rivermont
In Lynchburg Virginia a dog that ran amok last week aroused fear of hydrophobia after experts in Washington examined the head. Thirteen known bite victims have been killed and more may have been bitten during the dog’s long rampage before it was killed. Rivermont dog owners are on high alert.
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Lynchburg
Fivermont
Washington
Rivermont
United States fifth conference on child labor opens in Louisville
The eighth annual conference on child labor will open this evening in Louisville under the national child labor committee. The gathering will run through January 28.
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Chi Taber
Louisville
Heethter
Oegan oeneCinEwi
United States
National Child Labor Committee
Uses of ls In the Home for Charcoal and Cooking Tips
Old household tips advise storing charcoal in cupboards and refrigerators to absorb moisture and odors and renewing weekly. It suggests charcoal as fuel reuse and powdered charcoal with salt for teeth cleaning. Extra hints include salt and brown sugar in tomato soup, raw potato to improve flavor, and using pressed cloths for quick linen repairs. Ammonia in water to remove fish smell and briefly heating onions to remove odor.
Breakfast Cakes and Sour Milk Costs in Home Cookery
A colonial era cooking note describes mixing soda salt and sour milk to make dough for cakes, cooking on a hot griddle, forming circles of four to five inches, then piling on top to keep heat. It warns the mother to prepare ample baked goods before family sits, noting high egg costs push reliance on sour milk methods.
Concentrated bouillon and split pea soup recipe
Several bouillon concentrates require only hot water to make a nourishing cup. A tomato bouillon with crackers is favored, or rich beef or chicken broths. For pea soup, soak one pint of split peas, simmer, strain, season with pepper and salt, and add cream or butter for richness. A New York Press note contrasts engagement excitement with marriage.
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