Manila housing Manila life in wartime fears and costs
A lengthy wartime feature portrays the American civilian experience in Manila. It notes mass arrivals from the United States, high living costs, poor housing with cane beds, scarce groceries, and tense race relations between Filipinos and Chinese workers. It describes daily safety fears from insurgent plots, potential uprisings, and the need to sleep with revolvers as residents fear attacks from within households.
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Manila
Army
Islands
Binondo
Chicago Ends Up Testing Children Physical Condition In Schools
Chicago school board begins a program to assess students physical development alongside mental progress. Examiners measure height weight lung capacity grip sight and hearing in a bid to tailor workloads and identify health constraints affecting learning. Some findings show high hearing impairment and gender endurance differences among pupils across schools.
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Chicago
Chicago School Board
Unhappy Empress Life Of Russia’s Czarina
The Empress of Russia endures a life of cares despite beauty and rank. Princess Alix of Hesse, Victoria’s granddaughter, left Protestantism to join the Orthodox Church to become czarina. She faces clerical opposition from Pobiedonostrov who favors orthodoxy and persecutes the unorthodox.
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Russia
Alix of Hesse
Victoria
Pobiedonostrov
Photographing Criminals and Rogues Gallery Law
In a writ of mandamus against city police to remove a convict’s image from the rogues gallery, Justice Truax notes that while photographing criminals is common, its legality is doubtful when a person is accused but not yet adjudged guilty. The ruling cites a conviction for assaults and a six month sentence as context.
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Rouges
Rogues’ Gallery
Truax
Photographing Alleged Criminals and Rogues Gallery Debate
The article notes frequent arrests and association with criminals as justification for taking a man’s photograph for the rogues gallery. It cites Prof. Tiedeman on police power and adds Judge Truax’s view that such photo placement could be actionable as libel if wrongful.
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Prof
Tiedeman
Truax
New York Sun
Pestiferous Higher Criticism Recalled in Home Magazine
The Home Magazine recalls a Dr. Newman Hall tale about a Black preacher in a humorous lecture. The preacher explains Adam was made of wet clay and set against palings to dry, while a listener asks who made the palings. The reply shuts down the question as disruptive to theology.
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Fenthusiawm
Whitneyville
Lewiston Journal
Home
Newman Hall
Parson Finds Optimism Amid Small Festival Debts
A Saybrook Gazette item quotes a cheerful itinerant Methodist preacher in Georgia answering questions about life and finances. He notes small deficits from church events — $30 for an organ fund, $20 for a lightning rod fair, and $10 for a watermelon party — yet praises divine protection as the parsonage remains intact, six weeks after the pound party.
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Georgia
Saybrook Gazette
Trade Secrets Stir Berlin in Funeral Trade Shift
Berlin shudders over a rumored understanding between professional nurses and undertakers. Competition among undertakers has raised the nurse commission to 30 percent of funeral costs. A doctor publicizes the tactic, hinting undertakers may face cross scrutiny from nurses as well. Citizens speculate on the impact on patient care.
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Berlin
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Wong Kong
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Tir
Ercographic Record
the Sorrowful Czarina
Grippe
Joe Wheeler
Peruna
Sullivan, Roach
McEnery
Portland Directory
Portland Wire & Iron Works
Cawston & CO
First St
Portland
John Poole
Portnam
Oricon
Second St
T. P
Andrews
Montgomery St
San Francisco
Lonthly
B. Rowan
Milwaukee
Wis
GUNNS
DR. Bosanea CO
Philada
Penna
Drugwists
MT. Angel
Benedictine Priory
New Orleans
Patrick Garry
Bolivar St
Louisville
PH. Schereveri
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