Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chicken-coop and sell the hens' eggs to provide herself with necessities; how a husband complained that his wife had been attending strip poker parties when he was away at work, etc., etc. Most of the news in the first issue of Divorce was confined to New York State, but it will cover other states as it grows...
...state prison at Wethersfield, Conn., is better than most. It is strikingly clean and kept in good repair by the inmates. Each cell has individual toilet facilities and a catalogue of the prison library of 5,000 volumes. There is also a baseball field, a brass band, a monthly newspaper of which Sheriff Simeon Pease is inordinately proud. Last week, two newspapermen took up residence behind Wethersfield walls, were forthwith made editors of the prison paper. Their flamboyant history led the inmates to anticipate a paper that would be edited with imagination, gusto, craftiness...
...famed little lamb (where 16 tots are studying the three R's) and scarcely a stone's throw from the Wayside Inn, is the fine old colonial home of the late Buckley Howe. In it, 30 boys started living, working and studying last week. They were state wards of 14 and 15 years, selected by Henry Ford and the Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Welfare to be undergraduates of the Wayside Inn Trade School. Nobody pays their tuition. They will sow seeds, grind grains, bake bread, shear sheep, weave textiles to earn wages large enough to keep them...
...COMMAND TO LOVE-Affaires of state are a diplomat's job and nobody's business (TIME...
...Philadelphia, the Franklin Fourth Street Bank, and the Philadelphia-Girard National Bank are the largest banking institutions. Last week they announced their intention of merging, to form a bank with resources of $350,000,000. "The consolidation will add largely to the financial prestige of the City and State," explained Chairman of the Executive Committee Joseph Wayne Jr. and President Edward F. Shanbacker...