Mortality of Insured Women Forces Rethink of Rates
A historical analysis notes insured women's mortality proved higher than expected after 1848, undermining earlier belief in their longevity. It cites British office data, actuarial studies, and American work, urging insurers to adopt aggressive outreach to women with safeguards, matching men’s underwriting and pricing practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Prrcieux
Krenet Toutines
Actuarial Society of America
Cox
Thid Tery
War News Oddities and Unclear Tidbits From Global Fronts
Fragmented war dispatches mix names, places, and events with garbled text. Readable fragments mention areas, leaders, and dates, but many details are unreadable and mixed, yielding a collage rather than a coherent report.
Coal Mountain Treated Like a Fever Patient
A 1974 Norfolk port coal boom termed the "black diamond mountain" draws visitors and guards. Virginia Railway dumps 750,000 tons at Sewell Point, largest trains pass Lambert's Point, Chesapeake and Ohio handles 3,221,732 tons, Norfolk and Western ties piers. W P Tam of West Virginia holds the pile, seven months to accumulate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Eid
Noefold
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Tauledl
Lambert's Point
Chesapeake and Ohio
Virginia Railway
Sewell Point
Norfolk
Uncle Sam
Non Ix
W. Po Tams
West Virginia
Virginian Railway
Distress at Lodz Amid War Wrought Hardship
Widespread distress grips Lodz a 140 000 population industrial city. Factories idle fuel scarce and food rationing visible as prices rise. Railways diverted for troops leaving coal and provisions scarce. Only one hotel heated with military used as headquarters. Wealthier residents still have gas or electricity. poor endure darkness and substitutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lodz
Holand
Jeffe Lown
Means
Jealousy Proof of Love in Divorce Case Declined
The article reports that jealousy is presented as proof of love in the divorce case of Andrew B. Sullivan and his wife Thelima. Judge Evenevide denies a new trial, leaving Sullivan denied a divorce despite claims of a fractured marriage with a prominent school worker involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foie Logsdon
Andrew B. Sullivan
Sontus
Thelima
Zeppelins Bombard England Over Sheringham and Sandringham
A Daily Mail correspondent reports Zeppelins over Sheringham at about 8 50 PM. Bombs dropped, four in town, one through a house, a child miraculously saved, and streets left with hot crater edges. The raid aimed at Sandringham Hall, king and queen absent, bombs exploded nearby but did not hit the palace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enitaod
Shetloghut Wid Sandringham
Yarmouth
Daily Mail
Sheringham
Detwita
Bat
Cromer
Sandringham
Sandringham Hall
George
Mary
Alexandra
Buckingham Palace
Ninety-One Year Old Father of Nineteen Children
SAWS WOOD AT NINETY-ONE. A Kansas man aged ninety-one, father of nineteen, was sawing wood when his family announced a birthday dinner. He has been married three times, with ten children from the first wife and one from the second. He was eighty-three at his third marriage and has thirty-five grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
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M. & Kellogg
Herington
Kan
Mr. Kellogg
Aren
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Ahbir Airesatrdta
Dayton
Coal Mountain
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