Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-24
WORTH KNOWING

A total of 4,O7s ehauffeurs were ar
rested last year in Chicago.
The Daily Mirror of London has
daily circulation of 1,00o,0 900.
Rat killing days were observed las
month in East Liverpool. o.. ant
Charleston, w. Va.
Over 10000 citizens of Topeka Kan.
attended public exhibit of the com.
munity's civic and social problems.
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Bells have been put on eonvicts whc
work on the roads in Sussex, n. J.
because hired guards were too expen.
sive.
Divorces in New York county
showed an increase of so per cent. in
a single year. according to reports
just made public.
Because of the European war extras
Pittsburgh newspapers have asked
the city to revoke an order against
crying the news on the streets.
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The Russian parliament has before
it a bill for universal education for
all in that country where now only
twenty-one out of every 100 people
can read and write.
In an, effort to further reduce the
infant mortality in New York city
and to increase interest of the public
in the movement, the city observed
a Baby Week In an elaborate man.
ner August to s.
Liverpool, England. has s5.s15.00o in
vested in municipal housing for
workingmen's families and is plan
ming the erection of more The num-
Der of tenements completed is 2.747.
containing 6.S42 rooms, while rs others
are in course of erection and 81 others
win be started soon. Rents range
from "a to 81 cents per week per
room.
Carrick Pa, celebrated its tenth
anniversary by dedicating a $4,000
park and playground.
If the parks of Chicago were turned
into cornfields the yearly revenue
would be about $79,539.
Wages paid workers in Germany
this year so far range from 2 to Sd
per cent. less than last year.
Philadelphia is the only one of the
% largest cities in the country which
still awards it's street cleaning by
contract instead of doing it itself.
The four State employment
agencies in wisconsin, at Milwaukee,
Oshkosh, La Crosse and Superior,
found jobs for 42,60S men last year.
F'ifty-three per cent. of the people
of Chicago live in flats, hotels, tene-
ments or apartment houses, only Al
per cent. living in detached houses.
The Church Peace Union, endowed
by Andrew Carnegie, was set to begin
its first conference in Constance. Ger
many, August 2, the day the Euro
pean war began.
The entire police and fire-fighting
force Of Struthers, o., was called out
to protect city excavations for a
sewer under tracks of railroad
which objected to the work being
done.
The New York Appellate Division
public service corporation cannot
compel a patron to sign a contract
to use no other electric current from
another company.
During the first six months this
year 70 road and bridge bond cleo
tions were held in Texas. Fifty-one
were successful and resulted in the
issuance of highway Improvement
bonds in the sum of Sc, 5S1 500, an in
crease of 100 per cent. over the same
period last year.
Chicago is completing plans for the
employment of a farm advisor for
surrounding farmers.
Oregon City, Ore, recently opened
its first public street market and 800
buyers attended the first day
Circulation of the Bible in India
during last year amounted TO 240, 92S
copies in twenty-four different Ian
guages.
Addresses of social workers are now
given to public school teachers in
Philadelphia to interest the instruc-
tors in their welfare opportunities.