Nation Bows to Baby Week Nationwide Campaign
A national Baby Week set for March 4 13 with observances in Jewish synagogues and Christian churches. The drive promotes birth registration infant care and parental education, highlighting mortality rates and public health programs across states and cities including Boston Philadelphia Nebraska and Wisconsin.
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Chicago
United States
British West Indies
Federal Children's Bureau
Philippines
Alaska
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Women’s Clubs
Omaha
Lincoln
Maryland
Pittsburgh Baby Week Aims At Reducing Infant Mortality
Pittsburgh baby week aims to educate the public on infant mortality in the city. It seeks to inform fathers mothers and families about baby care and feeding, especially in summer when mortality rises. The effort also coordinates public and private agencies to avoid duplication and waste of effort.
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Indus
Dents
Boston
Milk and Baby Hygiene Association
State Board of Health
Women’s Municipal League
Boy Scouts
Faneuil Ball
Pittsburgh
Malls by the Air Please Aviators
United States aviation planners study a wartime mail and mall route scheme to connect Massachusetts Bay and Alaska. Post Office officials seek bids for aircraft and machines to serve isolated winter regions. Charles A. Wright of Riverton New Jersey leads the Aviation League training young pilots.
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United States
Massachusetts Bay
Alaska
Post Office Department
Charles A. Wright
Riverton
N. J
Aviation League
Federal air mail plan sparks debate on machines and routes
An Aviation League view opposes current bids for aeroplanes and argues the government must spend about five dollars per mile on experiments and consider heavier machines. The piece reviews a single 4,500 pound US machine, the America, built by Rodman Wanamaker, and contrasts cost with government expectations while outlining current routes and yearly costs from Massachusetts to Alaska and other mail corridors.
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Mr. Wright
Uncle Sam
America
Rodman Wanamaker
Atlantic
United States
R. W. Knight
Aviation League
Wright
Massachusetts
New Bedford
Wood's Hole
Oak Bluffs
Nantucket
Fairbanks
Tanana
Kaltag
Nome
Seward
Iditarod
Anchorage
Seaplanes for Philippines Four Army Machines Added to Second Aero Squadron
Four of the United States army's hydroaeroplanes tested in San Diego by civilian aviator Floyd Smith are to be shipped to Manila for duty in the Second aero squadron. Three machines have set altitude and passenger carrying records. The hydroaeroplanes are the largest in service and can operate about 500 miles without refueling.
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Army
Second Aero Squadron
United States Army
San Diego
Cal
Floyd Smith
Manila
United States
Greece Moves Greek Funds From London to New York
The government of Greece quietly transfers funds from London to New York, with an estimated 75 million dollars moved to the United States since Greece did not aid Servia amid the German Austrian and Bulgarian attack. Bankers note the shift as precautionary, not necessarily signaling war with Britain or a break with Entente powers. London has long been a key depository for Greek borrowing and money moves. Transfers increased after Teutonic pressure on Serbia and after Salonika events as French and British troops acted.
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Greece
London
New York
Servia
Germany
Austria
Bulgaria
Great Britain
Constantine
Salonikf
United States
Greek funds move through London to New York balances
The article explains Greece shifts sterling credits from London to New York, converting proceeds into dollars and placing deposits in U S banks. It notes Greece may receive large sums from Britain and France for Saloniki and supplies, and warns Britain could seize Greek funds in London if relations sour. Greece has accelerated relocating London cash to New York before such a shift is noticed.
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New York
Greece
London
Great Britain
France
Saloniki
Extended Reforestation Program In Pennsylvania
Officials of the Pennsylvania state forestry department estimate that more than 7,000,000 young trees would be used for reforestation this year. The bulk will be planted on state reservations and auxiliary reserves, with a large portion given free to citizens. The effort focuses on developing wooded areas rather than ornamental planting.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State Forestry Department
Commonwealth
British Want Half Million Railroad Ties for France
The British government offered 5 cents each for 100,000 castoff ties from the Boston and Maine railroad. Orders directed that all old ties be saved rather than burned. Negotiations with other railroads aim to obtain up to half a million ties for trench construction in France.
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Boston and Maine Railroad
France
Buffaloes in cattle shipment surprise broker
Foster H. Embry, a Louisville livestock broker, was astonished to find four buffaloes among a cattle shipment he acquired. No one knows how the buffaloes ended up in the herd.
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Foster H. Embry
Louisville
Knife Really a Gun Arrives in New York
A new dangerous weapon resembles an ordinary silver pocketknife but hides a 22 caliber pistol. Police are told to be unusually careful when frisking prisoners and not to be deceived by the device. The knife has two blades, a heavy handle, and a side spring that, when moved, reveals the cartridge and fires by pressing the spring.
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New York
Middletown ice anglers and a chorus of odd notes
The item catalogues brief, disparate facts from various locales. It mentions two men fishing through ice in Middletown, a 13 saloons vote in Kochiching County Minnesota, a Oklahoma penitentiary lacking clocks, a Hopkinsville Kentucky marriage prize, a Norwalk club flirtation with a duel, and a reflection on garden work from My Growing Garden by J Horace McFarland.
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Middletown
Kochiching County
Minn
J. Horace McFarland
Coals to Newcastle quip on appetite misread
A mother measuring ten ic for her young son asks why he must take it. He replies that he cannot hold half of what he wants to eat, delivering a witty dig that echoes the New York Post quip about appetite.
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Newcastle
New York Post
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