Alien Camp Life Not So Very Bad in Chester
The article describes a German internment camp in Chester housing about 7,200 aliens. It details dormitory wards, sanitation, medical care, letter censorship, a camp library, post office, and canteen. Prisoners govern themselves with elected captains, engage in trades, ship models, painting, sports, and education.
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Chester
Ory
Stgn
Gurto
Fliton
Hamburg
Unter den
Windsor Castle
Pobarge
Dondon
Camp
Germany
United Es
WRK
Weing
Num Bt
Peralty
Amp
Mercer County Ovenes Taken by Movie Man
G A Bolden, secretary of the West Virginia commission, overseeing the state exhibit at the Panama Exposition, arrives with N B Mehrle, official cameraman, to project coal and Norfolk and Western films for inspection. About 5,000 feet of film are shown, with 20,000 feet total planned and a six hour projection schedule. The state building near completion features West Virginia landscaping and a 32 by 32 foot reception hall, a 77 by 14 foot veranda, and a grand dome. Films will highlight mountain scenery and state industries, with 12,000 feet of film for panoramas and 12,400 feet for industrials, the remainder to be distributed to expositions later. The West Virginia film becomes state property after display.
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Bluefield
G. A. Bolden
West Virginia Commission
N. B. Mehrle
Elks’ Opera House
Norfolk and Western Railway
Bolden
State Commission
Fred Paul Grosseup
Charleston
G. C. Nagle
Wheeling
Howard H. Williams
United States
West Virginia
R Agricultural Department
Batum Russia's great oil port described by NatGeo
National Geographic describes Batum as Russia's key Black Sea oil port, a fortified harbor near the Turkish frontier with a 40,000 population. It highlights its petroleum pipeline from Baku, railway links to Tiflis and Baku, and Greek control of commerce, noting subtropical vegetation and high rainfall.
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Washington,d. C
National Geographic Society
Batum
Vistula River
Napthal
Russia
Baku
Black Sea
Alexander Park
Lake Nurse
Ratum
Congress of Berlin
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Baytum
Tiflis
Near East
Pha Vistula
Austria
Germany
Altien
Cracow
Warsaw
Modlin
Plock
Thorn
Kulm
Grau‘dun
Marienburg
Danziz
Vistula
Austrian Silesia
West
Beskiden
Carpathians
United States
Russian Poland
North Sea
Danzig
Netze
Oder
Crittenton Home Appeals for Aid in Wheeling
The Fiorid Crittenton Home in Wheeling West Virginia requests public aid during Christmas season. The circular notes forty adults and fourteen infants cared for last year and describes the home's mission to protect the young rescue the fallen and maintain moral standards.
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Wheeling
West Virginia
Elizabeth Rungeo
Fannie P. Brady
T. 5. Hugus
William Enakine
Edward Hazlett
H. L. Bond
Dent Taylor
H.C. Franzhelm
Cecil A. Robinson
L. C. Wells
D. B. Best
S. B. Rose
C. E. Githens
E L. Stone
Allie ‘B. Hall
Miss Trettle
Careless Marriages Drive Divorce Rise Says Tarbell
Ida M. Tarbell, in Woman's Home Companion, analyzes census data to argue that rising divorces stem from careless marriages and shifting social practices. She notes 185,063 divorced among 30 million married in 1910 and that 1919 figures show a larger share, attributing changes to higher ideals and reduced protective social guidance for youths.
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Ida M. Tarbell
January
Woman's Home Companion
United States
Miss Tarbell
Jess
Labor Bureau Reports On State Conditions In 1914
Charleston dispatch notes the 12th biennial report by West Virginia labor commissioner Nightingale. It details a full directory of local and out-of-state mines factories utilities and chief works, lists labor unions and their memberships, shows oil and gas well totals through 1914, and includes foreign labor nationality tallies totaling 65 307 workers.
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Charleston
State Labor Bureau
Jack Nightingale
West Virginia
Ttaloy
Bureau of Labor, Industrial Commissions
Mayor Cole Plans Florida Visit Next Two Weeks
Mayor Will H. Cole contemplates a trip to St. Lucie Florida in a week or two and will be a guest at the southern home of Frank L. Grove a few weeks.
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Queensferry
Will H. Cole
St. Lucie, Fla
Frank L. Grove
Michigan Drives Stamp Out Tuberculosis Message
A historical proclamation urges citizens to cooperate in the anti tuberculosis campaign. Governor Woodbury cites “vigorous” efforts to stamp out tuberculosis in cattle and humans. Red Cross Christmas seals are promoted as a means for all to participate in the effort.
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Michigan
Woodbury
N. Ferris
Hhe
Red Cross
United States
Court to Resume Criminal Court Session
The criminal court will resume work Monday morning as the state hopes to proceed with Jarles Wedmoriay, aiming to move forward on the case.
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Criminal Court
Jarles
Daring daylight robbery at Harris residence shocks neighborhood
A negro man entered 436 South Chestnut Street through an unlocked door at 11 30 yesterday morning. He ransacked Miss Adelia Schieringer’s bureau drawers and trunk while the Harris child heard the intruder and warned her mother. Jewelry and money were stolen and the robber fled toward Muin Road as police pursue the suspect who has been active in the city recently.
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Harry Harris
South
Chestnut Street
Adelia Schieuiiger
Finger-Selgel Company
Idm Cants
Drmwers
Muin Rect
Itik
Ee City
Harta
Mise Schieringer
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Leeds
Russias
Satum
Geographic Society
Criti Enton Home Appeals For Aid
Congress
Florence Crittenton
Washington, D. C
Red Cross Society
United States There Are Now Seventy-Eight Morence Crittenton
Charles N. Crittenton
New York City
Ida Tarbell
Labor Bureau
Florida
Adella Schleuiiger
South Chestnut Street
Frederic J. Haskin
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