New York Toy Shop for Aged Men Aids Self Support
New York Sept 9. The Men’s workshop run by the New York association for improving the condition of the poor helps elderly men stay self supporting and pass evenings usefully. It offers six hour days with about sixty cents daily, typically seventy attendees, with seasonal lows and highs. The shop makes toys for cripples and hospitals, including a large Noah’s ark, and other items like wagons and shovels for beaches. Personal stories show men like Peter J., Norman D., Thomas L., and Raymond N. finding purpose and relief from hardship through steady work and community.
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New York
Asaocialon
New York Association
The Last Serb Ban: A Balkan Bard and a Salvaged Pan
In Corfu after the Serbian retreat, 600 “third ban” men linger in tents near Vido. A Red Cross nurse and two English Quakers oversee relief work while a craftsman-elder uses a salvaged sauce pan as a gusla to accompany a lament for Kosovo and the march through Albania. Prince Alexander of Serbia is seen among the listeners, a symbol of endurance amid ruined homes and fading memories.
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Corfu
Greece
Zerba
Boulden
Vido
Potomo
Emily Simmons
New York
American Red Cross
Soting
Huntteh Serbian Relief Committee
Serbia
Albania
Prince Alexander
Alexander
Kara Georgeritches
American inventor builds ocean bottom pleasure voyage
Bridgeport, Conn September reports that Biman Lake plans a unique vacation aboard a two-vessel submarine craft to explore the Caribbean sea bottom. The project combines leisure with science as the party will travel beneath the surface in a surface houseboat and a small undersea cruiser linked by a tube.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Suter Verne
Mr. Lake
West Indies
Antilles
Ube
Miss Toom
Mametor
Mainiuure
Aceat
Hog raising ambitions of Holtville teen hog producer
Miss Josie Fuller, a seventeen year old in Holtville California, pursues top pork production as a goal. She emphasizes kindness in hog raising and notes her cost of three and a half cents per pound, close to a University of California prize that would have funded a transcontinental trip. Her focus remains on quality and market readiness, defying stereotypes about women in agriculture.
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Holtville
Cal
Josie Fuller
Aidle
Nineteen Births in Ten Years at Kensett Arkansas
Frank All and his wife of Kensett have ten years of marriage and nineteen sons born to them. Six died at birth. Thirteen surviving, including three triplets and two sets of twins. Names all start with A such as Astibell Archer Avastin Arthur Arnold Alfred Allion Adolph Abel Abner. Hydrogen gas byproducts in Europe used to harden alloy for soap production.
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Corning
Ark
Sep
Frank All
Kensett
Astibell
Archer
Avastin
Arthur
Arnold
Alfred
Allion
Adolph Fightenn
Abel
Abner
Filipino Witch Doomed in Philippine Witchcraft Case
Manila reports recount a Filipino witch known as the Aswan who shapes into a bound spirit or fog and preys on the living, with trials noted by the Supreme Court. The case centers on Isidora and Molecio accusing Sathirnina of witchcraft after their mother falls ill, prompting an alleged vow to lift the curse. They confront Sathirnina, dragging her from her hut to end the spell.
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Manila
Supreme Court of the Philippines
Molecio Meeslintal
Isidora
Molecio
Anlelia
Sathrnina
Sathirnina
Aswan
Remarkable Witchcraft Trial Feud and Executions Noted
The article describes a brutal murder case where assailants drowned a victim after torturing her with repeated drownings and ear severing. The Supreme Court altered the trial court sentence, citing the defendants belief in witchcraft as a mitigating factor in penalty consideration.
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Eam
Supreme Court
Tower Court
Sparrow Tommo Returns After Month Apart at Brooklyn Museum
In New York a Java sparrow named Tommo returns to his mate Quinnie at the Children's Museum in Brooklyn after a month away. Miss Mika Gallup and student Eugene McCarty tracked his escape, later receiving a Java sparrow gift from Charles Budd's Manhattan studio. The two birds are reunited, sparking a joyous show of contentment.
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New York
Tommo
Jay
Triainetimn
Tome Wn
Tome
Sid Ms. Gallup
Louth
Daya
Quinnie
Henke
Miss Gallup
Mise
Nelle Francis We- Jarly
Hugeng
Che Muixoum
Tomme
Tamme
NUT CLUB DISCUSSES CATTLE FEEDING IN A MEAL WEDGE
Nows and State Senator Alton T. Roberts of Marquette discuss feeding cows in courses to boost milk. He cites experiments with music and reports switching to a red table beet appetizer, clarifying he is not feeding alcohol to cattle.
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Marquette
Mich
Alton T. Roberts
Key to Heart Sparks Reading Marriage Plans
Evelyn C Marquette of Oakbrook Reading with engagement to Claude A Parsons of Arnold near Pittsburg after he found her key card inside a lock sold at a hardware store. The couple exchanged photos and plan a wedding as proof of his claims. Oscar Skeath of Mahoney City reports twins born to two health baby daughters fathered by one of two twin brothers.
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Reading
Evelyn C. Marquette
Rirl
Oakbrook
Claude A. Parsons
Arnold
Pittsburg
Miss Marquette
Magic Rock
Oscar Skeath
Mahoney City
Three Neutral Nations Grow Wealthy Quickly Qunlight and Faceh Air Health Aids
Harrisburg, Pa. Sept. 9. State health commissioner Samuel G Dixon writes on labor and health in a weekly letter. He argues sunlight, fresh air, pure water and exercise are essential to health and that modern industry limits these basics, threatening national well being. He says occupation is vital to well being and that machinery cannot replace the sinews of labor.
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Harrisburg
Samuel G. Dixon
Dixon
Min
Tockholm
Sweden
Scandinavia
Denmark
Norway
Scandinavian prosperity linked to war boosts and debts paid
Correspondenen from Stockholm reports Denmark Norway and Sweden enjoy wartime prosperity with debt relief and strong bank deposits. A record crop in Sweden fuels wealth alongside imports, prices and salaries rising while imports lag. Norway profits from shipping and fisheries as tax revenues surge and a new focus on armed neutrality shapes policy and commerce.
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Sweden
Germany
Annavia
Berish
Tuxsia
Stockholm
Band Routed By Busy Bug Altos at Riverside Park
Mt Sept 9 An army of uninvited bugs overran a White Hussar band concert in Seminary Paris forcing a retreat. The band reformed in Riverside Park with lights barely above musicians, bugs filling the stand and disturbing notes as tubist garbled melodies.
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White Hussar
Paris
Riverside Park
Hussara
Whistle Woes On Bluff Line Crossing
In St Louis on September 9 a southbound train failed to whistle at a crossing after the engineer discovered the whistle was missing at the next station five miles away. Rail law requires whistle signals, but the engine could not produce one despite ample steam.
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ST. Louis
Hettlck
Famous OnGer Wedded 10 Art Husband Oues
Denver Sept 9 Boying ton Skelton told a court his wealth could not save his marriage to Marguerite Starelle Skelton once a Metropolitan Grand Opera star now singing in Paris. Married in 1897 she trained in New York and Paris, rising to fame with Luckstone de Reszke and others, but career success separated them as desertion ended the union.
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Denver
Cole
Mary Garden
National Opera
Paris
Butart
New York
London
Herlin
Skelton
Metropolitan Opera Company
America
FURTHERING PROFIT BY NORWEGIAN SHIPPING LOANS
A fragmented report describes how wartime restrictions spurred new identification based liquor deliveries in Bessemer Alabama. It notes rising profits for Norwegian and Danish shipping firms, booming stock values, and large gains from fish and meat trades despite German submarines.
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North Sea
United States
Tne
Norway
Germany
Great Britain
Scandinavia
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