Government clerks live on less than twenty five a week
Washington figures show about 13,445 government clerks earn under 1400 dollars a year with many on 1200 or less. The Civil Service Commission notes more than 22,500 workers in the district earn under Byrne’s New York wage, suggesting over 4000 families of federal employees survive on 25 dollars weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Nagel
New York
Mary and
Cecile Fleming
John Il. Byrne
Washington
Young Byrne
Classified Service
United States Civil Service Commission
Byrne
War Department
Navy Department
Navy Yard
Agricultural Department
State Department
Foreign Service
Interior Department
Post Office Department
Investment pitch for Alamo Home Builders in Texas
A persuasive ad urges savers to invest in Alamo Home Builders a cooperative company in San Antonio. It promises safe profits by buying unimproved acreage within the city limits subdividing selling homes and building. The note emphasizes cooperation capital stock of 100000 and profits from land to delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alamo Home Builders
State of
Texas
San Antonio
Capital
California
Alamo Home Builders Promotes Stock Offering in Texas
The firm promotes stock in a Texas incorporated company with one hundred thousand shares, no preferred stock, and over ninety thousand shares already sold. It cites safe real estate investments, robust dividends, and vendor lien notes backed by land as reasons to buy. Offers $1.25 per share with options for cash or down payments and monthly installments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of
Texas
Alamo Home Builders
California
Postmaster Reappointed in Hallettsville News
Hallettsville Tex Aug 31 Postmaster William J Miller has been notified of his four year reappointment at this office A petition circulates urging the Post Office Department to close the post office on Sundays Also listed Buffalo Bill 8 reels The Star
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hallettsville
Tex
William J. Miller
Post Office Department
Atkinson lauds SP safety record of rail travel
A. R. Atkinson, Southern Pacific district agent, hails a Union and Southern Pacific bulletin reporting 157,000,000 passengers over four years without a life loss. The record covers ~17,250 miles of track with automatic block signals costing $6 million in five years and 99 percent test compliance. The note emphasizes safety as SP’s priority and ongoing accident investigations to prevent repeats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. R. Atkinson
Southern Pacific
Union and Southern Pacific
Southern Pa
Great Britain
Woman asks New York to legalize euthanasia
In a special dispatch from New York, Mrs. Sarah Harris an incurable paralytic appeals for a law allowing physicians to end her life. She argues suffering should be ended by medical death and questions why the state should force prolonged agony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sarah Harris
Harris
Audubon Sanitarium
Mrs. Harris
Rapid delivery of Dairy Co. products and phones
A brief notice declares rapid delivery of every Creamery Dairy Co. product. It includes a contact line with the phone number 3571 for order inquiries. The item emphasizes speed and broad product availability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Creamery Dairy CO
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R. A. Richey
F. A. Winerich
Pres. Woodward Carriage Co
F. L. Hillyer
Pres. Hillyer-Deutsch-Jarratt Co
J. E. Muegge
H. P. Mathews, Jr
San Antonio Light Pub. Co
John W. Beretta
St. Anthony Hotel
R. B. Brooks
F. W. Heitman Co
L. C. Wagner
New Clover Bldg
A. L. Voight
San Marcos
A. R. Torres
Walter Lawson
E. Runn
Rees Optical
National Hiscuit Co
Corpus Christi
J. W. Ceorge
San Antonio, Texas
Desk L
L. A. Casey
Sec-Trens
Navarro ST
Buffalo Bill
The
Star
Atkinson
Hariman
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