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...morrow of the day following the signing of the protocol France ordered the evacuation of the towns of Offenburg and Appenweier in Baden...
...Institution of a single gold bank with central office in Berlin, which with the exception of the State banks of Bavaria, Würtemberg, Baden, Saxony, shall be the sole bank of issue in Germany. The capital to be $100,000,000, part of which is to be raised in Germany and part abroad; the gold reserve to be at least 33 1-3% of the capital; the bank to be governed by a German Managing Board and a General Board of 14 members: seven Germans and a member from each of the following countries: Belgium, France, Great Britain, Holland...
Because they refused to work nine hours a day, the proprietors of the Baden Aniline Dye Works at Ludwigshafen and Oppau dismissed 20,000 of their workers. At Hamburg, the City Fathers invented "beggars' bonds" which charitably inclined persons are to give to mendicants instead of cash. The idea is to prevent the professional beggar from earning more than he deserves. Each bondholder will have his past looked into before the Municipality parts with any cash...
Died. William Armhold, 94, "oldest rabbi in the U. S."; in Atlantic City. Born in Schuchtern-Baden, Germany, in 1829; he came to the U. S. in 1853; founded a synagogue in Pittsburgh; was cantor of the Keneseth Israel Temple, Philadelphia, for 52 years; retired from active work in 1913. Said the Public Ledger (Philadelphia): "He was a leader in every Jewish movement in this city...
...drove all other topics from the stage at West Baden...