Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...satisfaction, by Professor Shaler who had strolled in and taken his place on a back seat and who, it seemed, had noticed the young men in Boston, just before the event happened, and testified that they were not intoxicated or turbulent, but simply boyish. The judge with evident relief accepted the Professor's view of the matter, imposed only a moderate fine, and the youths went out quite ashamed of the whole affair, as was fitting...
During the past week, about $125 has been received toward the fund for the relief of the Japanese famine, which with the $200 reported last week, makes a total of about $325. A few collectors have still not reported. These men are requested to turn in their collections at Phillips Brooks House before 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon. All the money then received will be cabled to Japan...
...affirmative with a clear, well-constructed speech. The conditions in France, he said, are such that workingmen cannot provide for their old age. For the past 50 years the government has tried to remedy these conditions by a plan of workingmen's insurance, but it has failed. Relief can be had by adopting a scheme to provide pensions for superannuated workmen...
...Government, at the St. Louis Exposition, of the German insurance system, together with the exhibits of many German industrial establishments, and a duplicate of the exhibit of the United States Bureau of Labor concerning wages, strikes, and trades unions. The museum also contains illustrations of many forms of poor-relief, improved dwellings, municipal industries, and problems of immigration; and offers opportunities for many special studies of social progress...
About $200 was received at the Phillips Brooks House Monday afternoon toward the fund for the relief of the Japanese famine. Only about half of the dormitories were heard from, however, and the money will not be forwarded to Japan until next week...