Taft Way Return To Yale Soon
Yale plans for Taft Way to resume residence at the university at the start of the new year with instruction three days weekly for half the year. Edgar Stevenson Furniss named as assistant, Lottie Bishop promoted to assistant professor the first woman at Yale in that rank. University enrollment: 2,273, about 70 percent of normal. Albert B. Crawford to head graduate demobilization efforts aiding returning graduates. Prof Edward B. Dunham resigns. salaries for instructors raised to 1200. Gifts include 5000 for Sheffield scholarship, 9500 for Yale College endowment, and Ostend proclamations from Ernest B. Tracey.
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Yale
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Edgar Stevenson Furniss
Eppo
Lottie G. Bishop
Albert B. Crawford
Edward B. Dunham
Sheffield Scientific School
Arthur Stillwell
New York
Thomas V. Stillwell
Samuel J. Elder
Boston
Yale College
Ostend
Ernest B. Tracey
New Haven
Hs Rat Haven
Employers Accept Invitation To Confer In Effort to Settle Controversy
New York, Feb 18. Building trades Employers association today accepted invitation to confer with Secretaries Baker and Wilson and union representatives in Washington to settle the nationwide walkout. Secretary Donnelly called labor leaders Europe aid a gigantic bluff. Union leaders agreed to federal mediation and prepared to leave for Washington. About 100,000 strikers were out with more expected by nightfall.
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Building Trades Employers’ Association
Baker and Wilson
Smaployes
Washington
Samuel B. Donnelly
Europe
Famous Art Collection Burned in New Jersey Fire
East Orange New Jersey February 18 the famous art collection of George Henry Roberts a Boston musician who dedicated 56 years to his works was destroyed by fire. He was found safe after flames subsided and rushed to the ruin sobbing amid the rubble.
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East Orange
N. J
George Henry Roberts
Boston
Roberts
Man's Essays on Woman and Woman's Essays on Man
A Cincinnati Express humorous piece catalogs pairs of verb phrases contrasting gendered essays with ironic alliteration. It lists Byeing Sighing Crying Buying Spying Dyeing alongside Denying Falsifying Horrifying Mortifying Liquefying Lying, highlighting playful contrasts.
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Cincinnati Express
It Was a Summer Dog
Little Robert visits a neighbor and explains why they keep a summer dachshund. He says the dog’s long body and door comings and goings slow the household, cooling the whole house in winter. His father approves the wry joke about the dog.
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Chicago
Robert
Bobby
Prompted From the Audience during war fund carnival
Madison Square Garden filled for the war fund athletic carnival. Soldiers performed bayonet demonstration under lights, with a larger fighter cornering the smaller one. A spectator yelled, urging the smaller man to pull the trigger, creating a sudden uproar.
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Everybody's Magazine
Madison Square Garden
War Fund
Poles Ordered Not to Attack
Paris reports that Poles have been instructed not to attack German territory as of February 18, in a current war dispatch from the capital.
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Paris
Farm Animals Hold Key to Europe War Food Needs
The Wall Street Journal notes North America must feed Europe as a main defense against famine. U.S. farm livestock total 126,775,000 on farms plus 7,000,000 in villages and cities, valued at 8.83 billion dollars. Hogs number 75,587,000, milk cows 23,467,000, meat cattle rising, horses and mules 26,500,000, sheep 49,863,000, with Europe and U.S. dairy, meat, and fat shortages emphasized and President Wilson's pledge to share meals during wartime highlighted.
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Wall Street Journal
North America
Europe
United States
Census Bureau
Wilson
Livy quote on nations aiding others echoes today in Lowell paper
The piece recalls Robert C. Winthrop praising France for aiding the American Revolution and cites Livy to argue a nationshould bear costs abroad to ensure liberty and law. It notes the parallel to U S troubles and ends with a quip about some wives reluctant to mend.
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Lowell Courier-Citizen
Robert C. Winthrop
Cornwallis
Yorktown
France
Livy
Rome
Philip of Macedon
United States
Lutheran Church Notes Inform on Meetings and Debt Free Status
Swedish Lutheran Church notes announce pastor and Mrs Anderson traveling to Hartford district meeting, a "Seven" society entertainment at 8 pm, and Rev Blomgren from Springfield sharing camp pastor experiences in English. Next Sunday English service 7 30 pm by Luther League. Mortgage paid off on eve of 1918. Avon Orphans Home donations exceed quota. Oscar Peterson, wounded in France, recovering in Boston hospital.
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New Britain
Hartford Nistrich
Lutheran New England Conference
Blomgren
Springfield
Mass
Luther League
Avon
Oscar Peterson
Walnut Street
South Farms
France
Boston
Parmelee Named Manager at Wallingford African Railway
George F. Parmelee succeeds Robin Wilcox as manager of the Wallingford African Railway office after release from service. He previously worked at the Middletown office of the same company.
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George F. Parmelee
Robin Wilcox
Wallingford
The Flail of Winter Aims at Snow and Seed Growth
A reflective piece likens winter to a threshing act where January to March drive storms and snow as chaff. The commentary argues snow serves a purpose, protecting seedlings and enabling future growth, framing winter as a true worker that ensures yearly fruitfulness. It urges readers to value winter’s harshness as preparation for spring.
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Baltimore American
Epitaph Sketch from Georgia Cemetery
A Georgia cemetery memorial reads Within this grave There lies poor Andy Bit by a spake No whiskey handy. The note is cited from a Boston Transcript piece about prohibition era humor and somber witticisms.
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Poor Andy
Boston
Transcript
Georgia
Heinie Zimmerman Signs Up With Giants For 1919
Heinie Zimmerman joined the New York Giants for 1919, becoming the third regular to accept terms along with Benny Kauff and Artie Fletcher. A separate incident reports Thomas Hogan of Enburg N Y arrested after forcing a wagon ride to a hospital, then attempting to pull the wagon toward saloons before being restrained by Officer Wiernasz.
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Heinie Zimmerman
New York
Giants
Benny Kauff
Artie Fletcher
Thomas Hogan
Ofenburg
N. Y
Wiernasz
August Schmidt
Fowler Avenue
Schmidt
Wierngast
Hogan
Begg's Mustarine Mustard Plaster Ad Cures Pain Fast
An old advertisement touts Begg's Mustarine mustard plaster in a yellow box as a quick pain killer for rheumatism headaches neuralgia toothache earache backache and bronchitis. It claims fast relief within five minutes, warns it burns without blistering and emphasizes real yellow mustard content.
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Begg's
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