Rotate Names On The Ballot Usher A New Primary Rule
A proposed bill would rotate candidate names on primary ballots to remove alphabetical bias. The move aims to give all contenders equal ground, citing recent primary results that favored early alphabet names.
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Columbus
Adams
Sandusky
Joseph T. Tracy
Portsmouth
Bloom
Bowling Green
Joyce
Cambridge
Supreme Judge
Judge
Benedict Arnold
George Washington
Washington
European War Timeline A Year Ago This Week
A sequence of World War I events dated August 14 to 19 1915 includes German advances at Novo Georgievsk Kovno and along the Bug river. Russian and Austrian actions in Caucasus and Belgrade. aerial and naval actions in Europe and the Adriatic. the Arabic sinking. and Italy declaring war on Turkey.
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Porcelain Revival for China Royal Factory Closes and Restores Trade
The King Teh Cheng porcelain factory, partly destroyed in the revolution, receives a $200000 grant to resume production of famed palace wares. In astronomy news Mount Wilson reports a catalog of over 1000 stars in Messier 18 with 7 percent redder than solar types and 85 percent bluer among the faint stars, while parallax is under 0.0001 arcsecond and five new variables are noted overall seven in the cluster.
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King Teh Cheng
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William Loring Andrews
Oak Neck Road
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L. I
Longfellow
Cambridge
New York
Bureau of Pure Food
Most Accidents In Homes Highlight Safety Shortfalls
A Cook County coroner report argues safety first belongs at home as well as in streets and workplaces. Over 11 years 29,854 accidents were reviewed with 15,241 occurring at home and 14,623 outside the home. Burns, scalds, and asphyxiation caused many deaths, with 105 children under five killed by scalds and burns in 1915.
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Cook County
Illinois
Chicago
Cuticura Remedy Ad and Empress Eugenie Story
Smear Cuticura Ointment and bathe with Cuticura Soap as directed for pimples with free mail sample offers from Boston. In the same page, Sarah Gray Crane’s will reveals a $75,000 Amherst College trust and credits Dr. Edward Crane with saving Empress Eugenie from a Paris mob in 1870, guiding her escape to England and earning a pearl from the empress.
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England
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New York Times
A German Company Forms Aerial Insurance Department
A German insurer creates an aerial insurance department issuing policies covering damage to property caused by explosives or parts falling from aircraft or airships during landings. Policies exclude injury or loss of life. Demand grows amid air raids near battle fronts, especially in the West.
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Aerial Insurance
Minister Greets Swedish Girl at Congregation Meeting
A minister shakes hands with a new Sweden born girl and asks for her address to call on her. She replies that she has no man. The joke ends with a quip about the man in the moon prospering on a high ball.
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Sweden
Man In the Moon
Wanted 30 000 Men for Wartime Work and Rail Travel
An advertisement seeks 30 000 men with wages of 3.00 per day plus board, listing employment bureaus in Winnipeg Regina North Portal Saskatoon Fort Frances Kingsgate Coutts Calgary and Columbus. It directs applicants to S Nethery Boom 82 Interurban Sta. Bidg Columbus 0 for details.
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Alberta
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Robbins hires two cooks at agency
Mr. Robbins returns home pleased with his work at the employment agency. He explains, I engaged two cooks today, noting one starts tomorrow and the other a week from tomorrow.
On His Way
Miss Wise asks if the sweetheart has been ordered out and Miss Guy confirms her father ordered him out last night in Town Topics.
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