Labor Cost Report Sparks Clash Over Living Costs
The labor committee leaders claim a 43.5 percent rise in living costs since January 1941, challenging the 23.4 percent BLS figure. They threaten critics with holes in an eighty page report, citing selective city samples and conflicting expenditure data to press labor's view.
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Chicago
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Senator Butler
Labor
Labor Report
Department of Commerce
Carter's Little Liver Pills Digestive Aid Ad
A health quiz leads to a claim that Nature produces two pints of digestive bile daily. Carter's Little Liver Pills are advertised to increase bile flow quickly, improving digestion within minutes. The ad urges purchase for 25 cents as a natural aid to indigestion.
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Carter
Labor Cost of Living Debate and Local Society Notes
A long critique defends the BLS index against rival cost of living methods while listing local social notes. Readers see arguments on price measurements, taxes, and wage contracts, followed by society updates from First Presbyterian and Federal Chapter, R.A.M., with several locals named and roles noted.
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American Statistical Association
Tokyo
Labor
Boy 14 Confesses to Stabbing Prince the Pomeranian
A tearful 11 year old boy admitted to stabbing Prince a pomeranian owned by Hugh Morton of Schenectady. He explained he whittled near Euclid School with a new knife and struck when the dog growled. Prince was found and the knife removed by Leroy Andrews. The dog survived and was returned home to Morton.
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Prince
Hugh Morton
Schenectady
Joseph A. Peters
Euclid
Leroy Andrews
Cleveland Avenue
Andrews
Mr. Morton
Bennington Area Soldiers and Local Deaths Reported
Mrs Flora Harris receives word from the War Department that Pvt Henry Harris was wounded in action in Italy. Mrs Edward G Merrill dies in Bennington after a long illness. she and her husband moved from New York to North Pownal twenty years ago. She was born in Georgia and leaves a brother and sister there. Private funeral services were held in Bennington with burial to follow in the spring.
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Flora Harris
War Department
Pvt
Henry Harris
Italy
Edward G. Merrill
Warner Nursing Home
Bennington
North Pownal
New York
Georgia
Park Lawn
Stillwater Troop 25 Scouts Hold Meeting at High School
Stillwater Boy Scouts Troop 25 met Tuesday in the High School gym with Stillwater assistant scoutmaster Harold Lane presiding. Senior patrol leader Earl Antlock assisted, oath led by Robert LaBarge, law by Lester Moll, color guards James McLoughlin Richard Tatro Jay Van Vranken Thomas Kinisky, Wolf Patrol conducted an initiation with Richard Sherman Milton Baker Gerald Brewster and Jay Van Vranken. Plans for a February Court of Honor and a weekend at the Boy Scout camp were announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Lane
Stillwater Boy Scouts
Earl Antlock
Robert LaBarge
Lester Moll
James McLoughlin
Richard Tatro
Jay van Vranken
Thomas Kinisky
Wolf Patrol
Richard Sherman
Milton Baker
Gerald Brewster
Area men promoted in war department release
William Thomas Larkin of Albany has been promoted from major to lieutenant colonel in the Army. Also promoted are Morris Zimmerman of Albany to first lieutenant and Allen Sumner Green of Salem from sergeant and lieutenant to first lieutenant with the Air Forces.
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William Thomas Larkin
Transport Command
North Peakl Street
Albany
War Department
Morris Zimmerman
Morton Avenue
Allen Sumner Green
Salem
Amy Air Forces
Ice Mint Cooling Foot Cream Ad
An advertisement promotes Ice Mint cooling cream for tired feet. It promises instant relief from burning sensations after long standing and suggests using it to soften corns and callouses. The ad notes availability from local druggists.
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Griva
Adv
Former Saratogian dies in New Jersey at 75
John H Collins a former D. and H. Railroad Corp agent and native of Saratoga Springs died Tuesday at his home 225 Montgomery Street Jersey City New Jersey He was 75 and had also served as a general freight handler for the railroad company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H Collins
Saratoga Springa
D. & H. Railroad Corp
City
Montgomery Street
Jersey City
N. J
Flo
Long-serving railroad worker retires after illness
An agent for the company in Albhanp served fifty years with the Central Railroad of New Jersey before retiring in 1940. He had been ill for about six months prior to his retirement.
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Albhanp
The
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
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Peertess
Renvious Posele
Woman's Missionary Society of
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Arthur Spaulding
Cora C. Briggs
Simon Bolivar
T. R. Ybarra
Ladies’ Aid Society
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Troy
KR. R. Stockham
Eloise Mulligan
Cambridge
Irene Hughey
Granville
Elsie Hughey
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Edward J. Blanchfield
Jane Lytle
Harry Lytle
Betty Tierney
Anna Tierney
Eileen McCann
Arthur McCann
Lorraine Brown
Sadie Brown
Ralph Fairley
Norfolk
Mina Farley
Irene Carrolan
Thomas Carrolan
Harold Fleck
Clinton Heights
Alex Fisher
L. C. Wayman
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Peerless’ Ac
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Trrm
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Dog
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Stillwater
LA Salles
Grenadiers
Menands, N.Y
Saratogian
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