Ten Thousand Chicago Union Girls Plan Self Denial Drive
Ten thousand union working girls in Chicago will deprive themselves of luxuries for a week to fund a campaign aiding other workers in forming unions and enforcing conditions. Participants will skip nickel shows dances chocolates and ice cream while some walk to work and donate fares and savings. The effort targets the 125,000 working women and girls in the city with 10,000 WTUL members aiming to organize the remaining 116,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Working Girls of
Chicago
Woman's Trade Union League
Trooper Roscoe Stratton Sustains Tongue Injury
Pomona California. Roscoe Stratton 16 son of G C Stratton of Lordsburg nearly bit his tongue in a collision between the car he rode in and another vehicle. A local doctor sewed up the piece hanging by a thread. He will be unable to talk for some time but the physician expects the tongue to regain normal shape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomona
Cal
Roacoe Stratton
G. C. Stratton
Lordsburg
Roscoe
Bowels Are Basis of Child Health
An old advertisement extols Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as the key to keeping a child's bowels regular, claiming improved appetite, sleep, and mood. It touts tonic benefits for stomach and liver, compares favorably to other laxatives, and offers a free sample by mail with address details.
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Caldwell
Griffin
Sandy
Utah
Clara Me
Intosh
Masonville
Cole
Tr. Caldwell
Washington
Monticello
Petitions due this week for judicial district race
Salem March 5 candidates in Aantille Morrow Counties Judicial District face deadline to file complete petitions for voter pamphlets. Only three Republican candidates, Waldemar Seton, Willam Masters, Joan Ditchburn, have filed. Democrats total 64 filing notices. several offices remain without candidates across districts.
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Salem
Waldemar Seton
Willam
Masters
Joan Ditchburn
Multnomah County
M. J. MacMahon
Portland
Sixth Judicial
Morrow
Umatila
Jackson
Josephine
Tillamook
Yamhill
Senatoria
Lincoln
Washington
Gilbert W. Phelps
Bean
Supreme Bench
B. F. Mulkey
Baltimore
United States
Baker County
Grant
Harney
Malheur Counties
Baker
Republicn
Republican Party
Flist
W. Hawley
Coos
Curry
Douglas
George M Brown
Roseburg
Supreme Court
Robert Eakin
la Grande
Crook
Klamath
Lake
W. Lilr Thompson
Lakeview
Thomas R. Campbell
Cottage Grove
C. T. Godwin
Benton
Colog
Lane
Lawrence T. Harris
Eugene
Edward R. Bryson
Gilliam
Sherman
Wheeler
Joseph
Malheur
Julien A. Hurley
Yale
Polk
Frank Newton
Toledo
Chicago
Thomas McCusker
Henry Waldo Oe
Charles H. Fry
Beaverton
Charles H. Corey
Klamath Falls
Charles W. Ackerson
Portlnd
Thomas T. Hooker
Falla City
Homer C. Campbell
Fred & Bynon
Carefree Relief promised by Cascarets for Indigestion
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a cure for indigestion and sour stomach. It claims immediate stomach cleansing and regulation, removal of sour undigested food and foul gases, and elimination of waste and toxins from the intestines. The pitch promises quick results by morning and appeals to families and children for gentle cleansing.
Girls Sent to Industrial School at Salem
The excerpt notes two girls being sent to the Industrial School at Salem so they could learn skills and become useful women.
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Girls’ Industrian] School
Salem
Foley Kidney Pills Aid Bloomington Patient
A Bloomington patient recounts severe backache and kidney pains almost unbearable until Foley Kidney Pills alleviated symptoms. The seller lists Olive Street location and notes the product is sold by all dealers.
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Toomey
Olive Street
Bloomington
Foley
Elopement of Loomis Bride Sparks Bakersfield Fresno Wedding
T L Loomis aged 71 and Emma Astle, three years his junior, eloped from Bakersfield to Fresno for marriage. Loomis is a widower and the fourth husband of his bride, who is a newcomer to Bakersfield. The tale reads like a love-at-first-sight case amid local gossip. Also mentions cold remedies and Round-Up concessions notices from 1912.
School Without Pupils Near Emporia Kansas
A Hazel Dell area school operates with only four pupils all children of a farmer. Miss Franche Bullock teaches and recently punished a pupil, leading the others’ parents to keep the children home. The truancy law may be used to compel attendance.
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Emporia, Kan
Franche Bullock
Hazel Dell
Miss Bullock
Work Horses for Sale in Helly Oregon
For sale twelve head good work horses. For further particulars address Jumea Hill, Helly, Oregon, or call at my ranch, four and one half miles west of Felix. When you have rheumatism in your foot or instep apply Chamberlain's Liniment and you will get quick relief. It cost but a quarter. Why suffer? For sale by all dealers.
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Chamberain
Jumea Hill
Helly
Oregon
Felix
Farm Girls Admit Arson to Attend School
Welch and Trout, both 15, confessed in circuit court in Welch West Virginia to setting a barn fire to gain education. Fire Marshal Carrington said the girls were raised on a county poor farm due to poverty. The case reflects reform era attitudes toward juvenile crime.
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Thefarm
Welch
W. Va
Lisgle Crabtree
Lucy Trout
F. 8. Carrington
Virle
Georgia State Chemist Praises Cottolene
Georgia's State Chemist J W H McCandless praised Cottolene before a gathering. He testified the sale and cotton oil basis have improved public perception of cotton seed products. He argued a pure vegetable oil base assures a clean digestible cooking product for women.
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J. WH. McCandless
Georgia
Greenwich Justices Form Union to Bar Jumped The Leap Year Marriage
In Greenwich Connecticut Justices gather to prevent impulsive marriages by young men to older women during leap year. A New York couple sought a license with a sixty year old bride. the young man claimed twenty one but appeared to be eighteen. Justice William Timmons advised the would be groom to leave town and stop the imprudent plan.
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Greenwich
Gretna Green
New York
Leap Grear
Portchester
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Fletcher
Coataur Company
TT Mupray
New Yor City
Ptieless
First National Bank
Pendleton
America
Herman Peters
Bottied
Aantille- Morrow Counties
Coy
R. W. Ritner
Chamberlain
Cottolene
UNION
A. Schneiter
Prop
Pendleton, Obe
Main Street
St. George Cafe
Webb St
Mark Moorhouse CO
E. Court Street
Aetna Accident and Liability Company
Hartford
Connecticut
Insurance
Capital
Groes
Grose
Totel
Ty Walter C. Faxon
Vine Pres
Paul
Bates
Portland, Or
M'Cargar
Bates & Lively
Yeon Ride
TIT Agricultural Insurance Company OF
Watertown
Total Asseta
Grosa
Total Uabilities Co
Exer Agricultural Insurance Company
W. TI. Stha
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