Germanys Waste Campaign Echoes In US Editorials
Philadelphia pay notes Mrs. Anna B. Scott urging household economy and no waste, citing German wartime measures and Berlin potato prices to show the value of thrift. It highlights consular reports on Germanys conservation rules and urges Americans to cut waste at home, with projected savings across millions of households. Field reports from Grafton include local legal, crime, and civic notes, church activities, and railroad plans.
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Philadelphia
North American
Anna B. Scott
Germany
Berlin
Department of State
Washington
Warstucken
Greatest Newspaper Readership Worldwide
The Americans are the greatest newspaper readers in the world with total circulation around 22,806 across daily, weekly, and monthly publications. One newspaper serves about 4,100 Americans, versus 4,700 in Britain, 5,900 in France, and 7,500 in Germany.
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United States
Great Britain
France
Germany
Gibraltar Tin Prices Show Rapid Fluctuations
Gibraltar is less than two square miles in area. The price of tin fluctuates very rapidly and widely.
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Gibraltar
Secret marriages linked by family habit in Newark
Newark reports a secret wedding December 22 between Mise Florence Elizabeth Snyder and Charles A Krauss at St. Alban's Episcopal Church. Both 18, the bride's line traces to ancestral secret marriages, including Elizabeth Knox and Elizabeth Donaldson. The Krauss family plans to live with the McGuire grandparents in this city.
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Newark
N. J
John Tenyx
Mr. Blaik
Drs. Black
Elizabeth Black
Donaldson
Elizabeth Donaldson
Donaldson-Black Union
Krauss
James C. McGuire
Jessie McGuire
Misa McGuire
Love Suit Puzzle Sparks Detroit Court Drama
Detroit jurists weigh a scandal claim as Mrs. Frank EB Carver sues Mrs. Shaft for damages alleging stolen affections. Judge Hally questions the premise after attorney Percy Grose argues that twelve meetings between a married man and a woman do not prove alienation of affection. No evidence shows improper acts by Mrs. Shaft beyond companionship.
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Detroit
Mich
Percy Grose
Hally
Frank EB. Carver
Tha eShaft
Grose
Carver
Educators of West Virginia plan Southern conference
Charleston March 20 West Virginia educators plan to attend the Southern Conference for Education and Industry in Chattanooga April 27 to 30. The merged session includes the Conference for Education in the South and the Southern Education Association with State Superintendent M P Shawkey as vice president. J J Hannifan will address The School a Center for the Social and Recreational Life of the Community. Key topics include manual training, art in industry, vocational education, and how high schools can aid in training journeymen as teachers.
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Charleston
Southern Conference For Education and Industry
Chattanooga
West Virginia
Conference For Education In the
South
Southern Education Association
M. P. Shawkey
General Education Board
Conference of Colleges
Kr. Marsh
West Svirginaia
Board of Regents
J. J. Hannifan
Prisoner couples wed aboard prison ship near Southend
Report of German prisoners tied to a prison ship the Royal Edward being brought to Southend. After a wartime ceremony the brides and grooms shared a wedding luncheon in a Southend restaurant, then separated with brides returning to London and grooms to prison.
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Tondon
Roal Edward
Southend
Ong
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Brides
Sio
London
Srogms Ito
Abin. Ts
Woman Held for Alienation Wins $7,000 Damages
New Jersey Supreme Court sustains a verdict for Mrs. Ethel Burns against Mrs. Margaret Brown, proprietress of Nantwich Cite, in the first state ruling upholding a judgment for alienation of a husband’s affections. The husband left his wife after Brown allegedly used arts and wiles to induce the separation.
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Trenton
New Jersey
State Supreme ‘Court
Ethel Burns
Margaret’ Brown
Nhantic Cite
Stes Brown
Pri
Bumper crop of fool legislation in many states
A survey of readings shows lawmakers push absurd measures across Kansas New York South Carolina Alabama Wisconsin Indiana and more The row of bills targets women liquor ads tipping education smoking and lazy husbands Highlighted items include a Kansas ban on earrings for women over 45 and cosmetic misuse a New York ball dodger tax a South Carolina limit on corn liquor shipments and a dry state rule.
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New York Press
Kansas
New York
Peonie
Iman
Coney Island
South Carolina
Alabama
Wisconsin
Indiana
Red Cross seal sale report from Virginia issued by doctor
Virginian report on Red Cross seals sales shows totals for tuberculosis relief, with figures including a statewide amount and local retention. The report cites Dr Irene Bye as issuing the document and lists overall totals and percentages across the state and local leagues.
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Lowing
Thas Red Cross
Irene
Playa
Virginia
American Red Cross
State League
Charleston
Mars
Twilight Sleep Baby Born at Huntington Sanitarian
Huntington March 20 Twilight sleep makes history as West Virginia’s first birth at Dr A J Watts’s new sanitarium. A girl, mother Mrs C A Watts, and baby both well. Mrs Watts recalls no pain due to twilight sleep. husband works in Canada. mother Mrs White of Portsmouth arrived to aid.
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Huntington
West Virginia
A.J. Watts
Eighth Avenue
C. A. ‘Watts
Ganadae
Medal Lost by Priest in St Louis Car Theft
In St Louis on March 20 Rev John A Tracy a prominent priest and longtime baseball fan had his grand army of the republic bronze medal stolen from his purse after being jostled on a Grand Avenue car near Finney Avenue. Tracy, a Civil War messenger, carried the medal for 25 years and has since offered rewards and anonymous ads but the medal remains missing.
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ST. Louis
John A. Tracy
BFS
Grand Avenue
Finney Avenue
Father Tracy
Jonny) McCarn
Odeon
Micdal
Tracy
Col. Thorbin
Ristion Thoburn
India
Anderson Post
Grand Army of the Republic of
Weston
W. Va
Engaged at 4, She Marries at 34
Newton NSC reports a long romance in Rowan County where Minnie Boger and W. T. Hackett wed after lettered delay. The bride, once 4 when engaged, is now 34 and has remained with the couple through years of trial, storm, and distance before finally forming a home.
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Newton Nsc
Rowan County
W. T. Hackett
Minnie Boger
North
Carol
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