Visiting nurse movement formed in Princeton
A conference at the High school built school Friday evening outlined plans to employ a registered nurse as a city visiting nurse. A committee will contact social and fraternal groups to appoint members to an executive panel, create funds, and arrange nursing services coordinated with the health department.
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Sherbon
Princeton
Helen Metcalf
Community of the Community Institute
Roy P. King
George H. Padgett
Metcalf
Russia Democracy and Abdication Amid Russian Crisis
The bulletin reports Britain dealing with the provisional committee in Russia and the de facto government. It notes Nicholas II as a prisoner of revolutionaries, the czarina sent to Kiev, and Alexis rumored dead. Petrograd sees democracy rising, with abdication and seizure of large estates announced. Grand Duke Michael offers the throne only if a popular vote supports him.
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London
Provisional Committee
iRusela A
Petrograd
Nicholds
Micheal
Russia
Nicholas
Railroad strike postponed as mediators push talks
Secretaries Lane and Wilson announce a 48 hour postponement of the railroad strike amid renewed negotiations at the Biltmore. Brotherhoods and railway managers converge in separate rooms, with mediators urging calm while potential court action looms over the Adamson law.
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New York
Mar
Interior Lane
Brotherhoods
Tooms
Brotherhood
Railroads Seek Federal Protection for Property and Workers
Receivers of the Rock Island and the C E I railroads asked the U S district court for federal protection for railroad property and remaining workers. Judge Carpenter promised protection and U S marshals were instructed to safeguard property. A telegram was sent to the attorney general requesting authority to swear in railroad employees as deputy marshals and arm them.
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Chicago, IL
Rock Island
United States District Court
Carpenter
United States Marshalls
Attorney General
Two Roads
Locomotive Engineers Flee Injunction Against Strike Called
Twenty eight members and officers of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in Philadelphia fled an injunction in district court to bar the Brotherhood chiefs from calling a strike.
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Phila
Mar
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Strike breakers arrive in Indianapolis packing 150 men
Four gangs totaling about 150 strike breakers arrived in Indianapolis Indiana March 17 and were quartered in a former L E W freight depot. The men marched from the union depot to the freight building.
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Indianapodges
Ind
Indianapolis
Union Depot
Unrest in Germany grows after Russian revolution
News from Petrograd strengthens calls against autocracy in Germany. Some Germans favoring autocratic rule see German plans fail and Russia possibly gaining strength. Vienna dispatches note the revolution's deep impression and the Austrian emperor and Von Bethmann Hollweg missing Berlin as they move to Vienna.
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Amsterdam
Germany
Petrograd
Russia
Vienna
Berlin
von Bethmann Hollweg
Russia Ready for Real Democracy Says British Officials
London dispatch reports British officials believe Russia is ready for real democracy amid two years of growing revolutionary movement that has penetrated rural life and war departments. Officials express sanctioned satisfaction at recent developments and credit the movement with aiding soldiers and guiding public relief efforts.
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London
Russia
Petrograd
Chicago freight deadlock sparks switchmen strike action
Chicago on March 17 sees freight traffic at a standstill as union leaders pledge to obey strike orders today. Daniel G. Smith, chairman of the Association of Switchmen's Brotherhoods of America, says his organization will ignore walkout orders and stay at work.
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Chicago
Daniel G. Smith
Association of Switchmen’s Brotherhoods of America
City may repeal hog ban to allow two pigs per family
The Démocrat reports a push to repeal the city ordinance forbidding hogs, aiming to permit each family to raise two pigs this summer under sanitation rules. Proponents say this could ease the high cost of living as more households plant gardens and seek assistance with potato crops.
Closing Sessions At Princeton Health Conference
Final meeting at the high school drew a large crowd amid wintry weather. Mrs Reynolds readings and Mr Schlafer led community singing. Miss Wilson spoke on Nursing Service and Public Health. Dr King lectured on Hygiene and Health. Dr Parker on Municipal Sanitation.
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John Gorman, JR
Princeton
Reynolds
Schlafer
Miss Wilson
Miss. Wilson
Wien
Veluavle
High School Glee Club
Community Institute
H. A. Yeager
King
Parker
Princéton
Demurrer Overruled in Byers Injunction Case
Judge Vandeveer overruled the defendants demurrer in the Byers Injunction case this afternoon. The decision likely sustains the injunction against the state board of health and prevents David Byers from being sent to the county poor farm.
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State ‘Board of Health
Today's Temperature Record for Princeton
Local observer R R Marshall reports Princeton temperatures with a high of 59 and a low of 41 degrees.
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Princeton
Loweat
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