Bread label usage hits six million in October
A Bakers union report notes 6,000,000 bread labels used in October. Meanwhile New York illumination workers earn 3.20 for an eight hour shift. St. Louis forms a Tobacco Workers Union of colored men. Rochester button workers gain wage increases. Massachusetts sees 37,000 of 1,100,000 gainful workers employed on Sundays.
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Ohio cemetery honors both sides of Civil War dead
In Columbus a large cemetery holds nearly 3,000 Confederate and Union graves. A stone fence marks the plot and a granite boulder bears a solemn inscription. Memorial services yearly unite Blue and Gray with ex Union Col. W. H. Knauss leading efforts.
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Cipher style Bacon key ties Shakespeare to Psalms
A playful note discusses a Bacon cipher claim that Shakespeare wrote the Psalms. It jokes that while Baconian methods once argued against Shakespeare's authorship, another cipher supposedly proves he wrote the Psalms, using Shakespearean spelling as a key.
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Determined One-Armed Man Shifts Labor With Remarkable Skill
Palmer Me Journal profiles Elise Laffo once known as Lend, a sawmill accident survivor with a right arm lost at the shoulder and a left stump. Despite no hands, he drives teams, loads lumber and handles crops and potatoes with inventive foot and knee methods, overseeing eight married children and his son in a teaming business in Palmer, Maine.
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New York State
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Palmer
Connecticut
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