Unemployment Crisis Spurs Public Works Plan Debate
A conservative Senate bloc argues industry can absorb jobless and returning soldiers if restraints on business are lifted. Kenyon proposes a 100 million dollar public works bill to fight unemployment, but many leaders doubt it will pass or shift policy. Lenroot says road building could reduce town unemployment and be worthwhile.
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Seattle
Paganda
Congress
Escondin
Kenyon
Board of Public Works
Republican Conference
Recan
Senate
Tor Lenroot
Wisconsin
Jones
Washington
Lenroot
Reformed Crook Fatally Shot in Unsolved Vendetta
New York detectives probe the past of Gujsto Logerio known as Fatty a reformed criminal shot yesterday after years of turning away from crime Officers found $590 in his pockets suggesting revenge motive as they search for the killer and motives across the underworld past.
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New York
Gujsto Logerio
Fatty
Cigarmakers Strike at Garfield Plant
Four hundred workers at the American Cigar Co. plant in Garfield New Jersey went on strike yesterday demanding a 44 hour week and a 25 cent per hundred cigars wage increase. Most strikers are women and the action followed a dispute over pay and hours.
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Garfield
N. J
American Cigar Co
Eaca
Senate Passes $215 Million Pension Bill
Washington February 8 the senate moved swiftly and approved the 215 million annual pension bill in one minute securing support for new retirees and veterans.
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Senate
Washington
When a Family Needs a Friend in Times of Illness
An old advertisement promotes Hood products as a support during influenza and war time. It touts Hood's Sarsaparilla Peptiron and Hood's Pills as a new iron family treatment to keep a household healthy when doctors are away. Regular use before meals after meals and at night is claimed to help the family stay well.
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Hood
Dick Croker
Palm Beach
Fla
Richard
Dick) Croker
Tammany
Mr. Croker
Wheat price guarantee toll on taxpayers debated in Congress
Washington February to fund the 1919 wheat guaranty the food administration seeks a $1 billion revolving fund drawn from the treasury to cover the difference between the farmer’s $2.26 a bushel and market price for consumers while Hoover and Barnes warn on uncertain future prices. Lever leads final measure ahead of Monday House report.
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Washington
National Administration
House Agriculture Committee
Congress
Food Administration
United States Treasury
Jules Barnes
Grain Corporation
Nerbert Hoover
Treasury
Barnes
United States
Lever
House
War on tight skirts prompts Nebraska club letter
Omaha reports Mrs. D C Zukey, head of Lincoln Women's Club Home Economics, condemns tight skirts as immoral and aims to curb them across 219 Nebraska clubs citing industrial and social setbacks. In New York Bracken libel case unfolds as he defends pigs and influenza concerns, while in Wilmette Mrs. Leland Pierson resigns from village board, calling politics no place for a woman.
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Omaha
Neb
D. C. Zukey
Lincoln Women’s Club
Nebraska
Joseph P. Bracken
No Beer No Work Slogan Sparks 750000 Labor Protest
A mass labor slogan No beer no work is being worn by about 750,000 workers in New York and New Jersey after meetings in New York and Newark. Trades councils urged a referendum on prohibition, with buttons and a Liberty statue worn by participants.
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New York
New Jersey
Newark
Taxes They Pay The Consumer For Every Item
The piece argues that taxes cannot be shifted to consumers and lists numerous examples across daily life. It claims a typical family with a wife and child pays through income tax, car tax, tires, train and telegraph charges, liquor, banana split costs, cigars and tobacco, silk stockings, umbrellas, shirts, movies, piano purchases, phonographs, shaving soap, toilet products, pills, life insurance, and potential estate taxes. It portrays government taxation as pervasive and burdensome on the average American.
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Congress
How Company G Was Cut to Pieces
New York reports Captain Daniel W. Strickland of New Haven recounts the destruction of Company C 102nd Infantry in the Toul sector on July 21. Strickland and nine wounded men were captured but he bribed a prison camp guard and escaped to Poland, then to Italy and France.
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New York
Daniel W. Strickland
New Haven
Conn
102Nd Infantry
Toul
Strickland
Poland
Italy
France
Happenings and Local Notes From The Penny
A mishmash of local events titled Happenings in This Vicinity from The Penny dated February 8 lists Old Glory over Central school for General Sherman’s birthday, a Washington Birthday banquet, Grove Beach cottages pillaged, sidewalk snow clearance, races on Portland Main Street, rubber boots ad, Rand Powder Co. visit, land purchase, river fishing in a storm, Hotchkiss block pipes freezing, new duties at Central Bank, ice cutting from Pameadha pond, Tim Clew joining L. B. Chaffee, a boy’s sleigh accident with a broken hip, a Clinton marriage, Conn Brownstone Quarry Co. annual meeting and dividend, George Thayer changing jobs, Reynold’s Bible class at the Methodist church.
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Central
Harry Barnes
Deep River Bank
Central Bank
Brazos
Amy A. Guy
Meriden Road
Pameadha Pond
Timothy Clew
L. B. Chaffee
Monay
Jasper Brooks
Moodus
Thursay
E. L. Stevens
Stevens & Foote
Clinton
N. Y
Lora deRegt
Conn. Brownstone Quarry Co
Cromwell
George G. Thayer
G. E. Burr
F. S. Hills
Charles Reynold
Methodist Church Chapel
A Dashing Shower Bath
A shower bath promises morning vim with a Kenney Shower that fits any tub without a curtain and prevents splashing. Two portable styles offered for 7.50 or 15.00, with money back if unsatisfied.
Amnstre lmen in Jovial Spirits at Russell Fire Dept Show
Thomas W. Bayley leads Russell Company Fire Dept Association to issue a souvenir program for the third annual minstrel and dance entertainment. The booklet includes committeemen names, a picture of the Russell Migs Company fire truck, and sketches. One booklet per patron. Captain John G. Krauth chairs the Entertainment Committee with fire department help from George Crowley James Bayley Thomas W Bayley Thomas Gray William C. Fisher Col T. M. Russell Charles A. Ingercoll Harry H. Mayall Ss. J. Taylor Arthur Losey Fire Chief John Vincent Col. T. M. Russell Chairman Assistant Chiefs Henry Kensell John H. Talbot Arthur Miller. Fire Dept Association officers include President Thomas W. Bayley Vice President Patrick Smithwick Financial Secretary Daniel J. Smithwick Recording Secretary Leroy Young.
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Thomas W. Bayley
The
Russell Company
Fire Dept. Association
Russell Migs Company
William C. Fisher
T. M. Russell Charles A. Ingercoll
Harry H. Mayall
Ss. J., Taylor Arthur &. Losey
John Vincent
Unusual Sale on Household Linens and Towels
An advertisement lists discounted textiles including pillow cases in two sizes at 32 to 42 cents, unbleached sheets from 90 cents to 1.75 each, bleached sheets up to 2.00 with several price points, Turkish towels 59 cents, Comet Flannel 25 cents, Bleached Twisted Flannel 29 cents, and 45 inch Wamsutta cotton pillow cases at 35 cents. The shop promotes multiple fabric goods with varied pricing to attract bargain shoppers.
Rose of No Man's Land and Dixie Revue at 8:15 PM
Edward H V Ball directs a variety show featuring songs by Crowley, Bones, Krauth, Ward and others with a 12-number dance program. Interlocutor James Bayley leads the chorus as Ford's orchestra plays past masters like Old Black Joe. Tickets cost 50 cents for gentlemen and ladies 25 cents.
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Rose
No Man‘s Land
George Crowley
Eaeeees
Remember the Night Mardi Gras Fire Truck Milestone
The Russell Mfg Co Overland fire truck marks one year in active service. It carries 600 feet of hose, four chemical extinguishers, a dozen recharges, a 20 foot extension ladder and a roof ladder, axes, lanterns, rubber coats and boots for all Chemical No 1 members.
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Russell Mfg. Co
Chemical, Co, No. 1
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Kahn
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California
Wilson
State Department
Paris
French Academy of Sciences
Company G
Schenck
Dr. J. H. Schenck & Son
Philadelphia
Middletown
R. J. Atwell
Chamber of Commerce
Camvalan
Beecham
Lyman D. Mills Co
Jackson Co
Amnstrelmen
Russell Mfg. Co’s
J. A.B. Hall
John G. Krauth
the Entertainment Committee
Fire
George Crowley , James Bayley
Thomas Gray
Col. T. M. Russell
Henry Kensell
John H. Talbot
Arthur Miller
Patrick Smithwick
Daniel J. Smithwick
Leroy Young
Edward H. V. Ball
Georgia
Bones, William Doherty
John Krauth
Mary Jane Tambo, Chas. Ward
Chas. Ward
William Coleman
John Walmsley
Dixie
Joe Bones
William Long
Master Harold Smith
Fambo
Richard Dalg
Aeare
James Bayley
Frank Smith
Michael Nejako , Wilbur Hull
Roy Young, Daniel Smithwick
John Smith
Philip Dickinson
Ford’s Orchestra
Prof
B. L. Deming
Edward H. V. Ballle
A. P. French
Brainard & Logan
Main St
NEW
J. F. O'Connell
W. T. Fields CO. Investment Brokers
Chapel Street
Liberty
New Haven, Conn
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