Papers Assist Belgium's Cause
Western Pennsylvania readers, through fifty leading papers, donate to relief for Belgium. The coupon supports local committees or Pittsburgh headquarters, aiming to buy a shipload of flour for starving Belgians. Bread Day canvasses cover nearly every city, with all contributions directed to the Belgian relief fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Belgium
Pittsburgh Committee
Exclosed Fund For Shipload Of Flour For Belgium
A terse note requests funding for a shipload of flour destined for Belgium amid famine. It names the act as relief and mentions a place of contribution and a contact address for donors.
Philadelphia School Board Faces 3.5 Million Child Labor Law Cost
Philadelphia's board must spend 3.5 million to meet the new child labor law. Twenty two thousand children who would have worked will need school continuation programs and 217 new school houses are to be built by January 1, 1916. The law requires children with working papers to attend eight hours weekly of continuation education aligned to their trades.
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Philadelphia
William C. Jacobs
Finger Prints On Passports
A Philadelphia banker suggests attaching finger print impressions to identification letters for passport use to prevent American spies in Europe. The plan cites Charles B. Stillwell who procured state department passports with a Brunker suggestion to attach prints, enabling instant identification by European police using Bertillon methods. The Western Savings Fund already uses prints for depositor records, showing permanence of fingerprints from infancy to old age.
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Europe
Bryan
Philadelphia
Charles B. Stillwell
State Department
F. Hallowell
Western Saving Fund
Brunker
Stillwell
Mr. Brunker
Western Savings Fund
Carving Versus Face Test Cited by Philadelphia Ledger
A Philadelphia Ledger feature argues fingerprints prove identity while faces may mislead, stating the hand is the enduring test and cannot fail. The piece emphasizes the reliability of fingerprints over facial recognition.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Killing Of Weeds Is Important on Farms
The Agriculture Department stresses weed control by preventing seed production and seed introduction. It explains annual and biennial weeds die after seed, while perennials survive via underground parts and top growth, requiring all three preventive principles.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Improvement grows in iron business
United States Steel reports about 80 percent ingot capacity with price firmness despite irregularities. May shows progress and June outlook remains strong. May pig iron output reached 2,250,556 tons, up 136,038 from April, with total gains of 755,000 tons since last December. Lake Superior ore shipments in May totaled 5,012,387 tons, up 1,160,294 from May 1914 but below 1913 levels. By June 1 shipments reached 5,516,189 tons, vs 4,121,749 in 1914 and 8,150,599 in 1913.
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United States Steel Corporation
Lake Superior
Mesabi
Carbon Steel Co
Pennsylvania
Shoppers and visitors frequent Edenburg and nearby towns
Mrs. Brewster and daughter Clairé shopped in New Castle Friday. Mrs. Claude Cherry and Miss Mary Gibson also visited New Castle. John Hofmeister visits Jamestown with his aunt. Mrs. Walter Campbell of Mahoningtown spent time with her sister. Mrs. Ed Weekley of Wheeling visits her sister-in-law. Mrs. Phebe McGuire stayed with her son in Mahoningtown then returned home. Charles and Bernard McGuire of Mahoningtown visited their grandmother Mrs. A. J. Walter. Local women attended a convention at Plaingrove Thursday.
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Brewster
Clairé
New Castle
Claude Cherry
Mary Gibson
John Hofmeister
Scott Hofmeister
Jamestown
Walter Campbell
Mahoningtown
L. D. Hoover
Ed Weekley
Wheeling
West Virginia
Harry Park
Phebe McGuire
Charles
Bernard McGuire
A. J. Walter
J. B. Coates
J. F. Hofmeister
Elizabeth Mitcheltree
I. M. Hofmeister
Plaingrove
Phrase exchange over color speed sparks debate
The dialogue presents a heated dispute where one speaker questions the swiftness of a color described as fast, while the other defends it as adequate, labeling it an also ran. The contrast hints at a playful or rhetorical exchange about performance.
Brother Of Mercer Man Is A Victim
Rev. J Shaw MacLean of Mercer pa receives word that his brother Alex aged 18 was killed at the front in Flanders. He enlisted when the war began but trained until he was of age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer, Pa
J. Shaw MacLean
First United Presbyterian Church of
Mercer
Alex
Flanders
MacLean
Turks Scatter Bones of Napoleons Men
Paris reports that graves of Napoleon era soldiers from the siege of Acre, buried near a French admiral at Haifa, Syria, are being scattered. A Paris surgeon in the sixteenth century is noted for inventing artificial eyes.
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Napoleon
Paris
Acre
Haifa
Syria
Bay of Acre
Ministry of Marine
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