Baby Week highlights infant welfare and community action
The article recalls Baby Week as a federal and federation driven effort to reduce infant mortality, urging communities to examine birth outcomes, promote nurse services, birth registration, and child hygiene. It notes progress in rural villages, school programs, playgrounds, and state health divisions, with families gaining access to free authoritative care guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Children’s Bureau
General Federation of ‘Women's Clubi
United States
Wmall
Children's Bureau
Stepthal Rapult
I Am the Baby Proper and the Baby Week Beginnings
The text promotes infant welfare and Baby Week activities, urging pure milk fresh air and play for children. It references 1017’s new edition with reports from past Baby Weeks and bulletins on child welfare including infant mortality studies and birth registration.
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Sintera
Westions
United States
Rio de Janeiro City of Light and Latin America's Growth
The article extols Rio de Janeiro as a thriving tropical capital with a population over a million, praised for sanitation gains, harbor size, and urban modernization. It notes historical struggles under empire, the Napoleonic transfer of the royal court, and current progress in streets, palaces, and public works. It envisions continued growth as Brazil expands its resources and infrastructure.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Rio de Janeiro
Latin America
Brazil
South America
America
Bulla
Lisbon
Rto de Janeiro
Brasil
Bay of
Republic
Garth
South End
Rio
United States
Brave Bay Front
Hilo
Europe
Monroe Palace
Imperial Palace
National Museum
City Hall
Mint
Chamber of Deputies
School of Pine Arts
National Library
Piore
Wong
Brasille
Iio de Janeiro
Longest Railway Tunnel in America Opens in British Columbia
Popular Mechanics Magazine reports the Connaught tunnel in the Selkirk mountains British Columbia opened for traffic December 8 as the longest North American railway tunnel. It runs 26 100 feet double track reduces route length by 43 miles and lowers grade by two feet while removing 4 miles of snow and seven curve sections. Cost totaled 6 500 000 dollars with a ventilating system. Work began January 1 14 and main headings through the mountain were completed December 19 15 setting a new Cupid work record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connaught
Selkirk Mountains
British Columbia
Te Khortens
Rlt
Mountain Pier
Mowat Macdonald
Popular Mechanics
Bear Circle of Fire Foils Four Bears on Pennsylvanian Rail
A flagman guarding a stalled freight train near a cut in northern Pennsylvania used a lantern to create a circle of oil and fire, trapping four bears. He fled with the bears in pursuit, then lit the oil circle, causing the bears to be killed as trains passed safely through the blaze.
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Pennsylvania
Susquehanna
Biue Tidge
al Ieghanya
Ganogo
Eliiit
Eis
Flaigman
Torromstricken
Landlig Wm
Smock Elected President Of Railway Yard Association
The National Association of Railway Yard, now headquartered in Indianapolis, concluded its annual convention with J. C. Smock chosen as president. Carl Taggart, Albert Gale, and other officers were elected along with a secretary treasurer and board directors.
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National Association of Railway Yard Men
National Association of Railway Yardueo
Indianapolis
J.C. Smock
Tadlupapolie
Oral View
Carl ‘Taggart
Indianapolia
Albert Cale
James Hacker
Inianapalis
EH. Riradawn
Greneburg
Ind
KR Mills
Connersville
BR. N. Blythe
M. L. Clawewn
Organiaation
G. Craig
Milter
What Ails Our Railroads What Ails Our Railroads
The piece asks what harms railroads today, citing shortages of rolling stock and skilled workers, aging equipment, and worker fatigue. It notes wage-driven labor shifts, uncertain postwar labor supply, and warns that a reckoning for laggards and praise for faithful workers will come when job demand shifts.
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Miys Tron
Knuckle Blocker Helps Steady Path on Railroad Shift
A lone worker stops to remove a damaged knuckle from a track path after dark, explaining that others would have done the same if they had thought of the danger. The scene centers on duty and care among railroad employees.
Culm Banks to Fuel Markets Across Pennsylvania
Reports say vast culm banks in Pennsylvania, untouched for 20 years, will be prepared for market. A Pennsylvania Railroad effort will mobilize millions of tons of coal waste known as pea and nut coal, previously unusable, to meet rising demand and fuel production.
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
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Bareno
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Children’s Bureau
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Avenidad Central
Connaught Tunnel
Alrce
Flagman
Smock
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