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That's how it IS with Is hero a., tie
East End since war has CONC. ~rc SAID
There isn't any NOR" CAN tcll you
about II. sir
confirmation OF her story. He Went f."
the home of the most influential, header
of the labor party that the East End
possesses.
rs the population of this section 81
London better OF worse OFF than bcfoF.
the war; he asked the labor leader.
Economically we are better off th,tn
ever before was the rtplN- ''Cf course.
Their" are hundreds OF individual eases Of
with fixed Incomes wrr cannot work. htI1
the only real economic problem W. haN..
to face Is tho riS" in III" pric" Of foou
If the government ,.au b,. Induced To- ls,-l,
the price down to = reasonable l"N'l ~"
shall come through without ANY trouble "
The story of the Stun mother and the
statement of the labor leader Tailed.
Here. then, in the East Of London. lives
an immens. community Of two and half
millions which has furnished the Brit ISL
empire with SeNcnty-iiNe thousand Of its
best men. and Vet has managed. partly
with the aid of the government. hut most
~ through its own industry. uot oulN 20
avoid misery, but actually To improve its
situation
from the hattlef"lds of Europe. The war
served to turn Thousand upon thollS;t mis-
of Stun jewellers IN great cities like New
\ DIRK and Chicago out INTO the freezing
streets Christmas exc. In England. witt
only a strip of water fifty miles wide
between the cliffs of Dover and tn" coast
of France. war brought only fuller sto,'ll-
iugs Christmas morning to til" children
of the jewellers in the East End "f Lon
don.
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of M@lmit@ Makes Death a Pleasure

nons-in small quantities. As such. its
combustion increases to the very mouth
OF the piece-giving that extra bat to
the projectile which sends it through
ormorplate like smearcase. Yet as
decorating explosive, its time is
1-l.l0oth of a second, diSsolyius the
shell to a cloud of bits like dlIckshot
over a great arca--and putting men
out for good or a nap ticliciously. by
mere commot ion.
Mixed with smokele.ss pow der, it
ought TO blow up the cannon: Vet il
doesn't. Used in shells. it ought 10
need a special detoaator: vet 1t doesn't
1t may he found that there are two
varieties of turpinite. Admittedly q
frst-claSS mystery. neither public uor
military attaches are likely to learn
much about ii from the French official
engineers. 1t is Turpin'S
And Turpiu has other mysteries IN
his sack. The Fenian fire is a pure
wonder.
"A little before the war; he saws II
crossed Belgium. Between Liege and
Namur. on the plateau of Herve pre-
else points of the German concentra-
ton. there We're immense heat fields
With one of my Inventions. panic mlsht
have been thrown into their armies
1t WIS not.
The official engineers had not cxaf,-
ined Fenian fire.
Magnanimous Turpin,
STERLING HELLO
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melinite and called it ly,iditc. As if |
should write this story, and DR. Lidd
should sign il. and draw the pay by
request
There is no use to argue about such
things. Eugene Turpin.s wiIlful mouth
and stormy blue eye in his round
and rudy face proclaim the quick
tempered original genius who cannot
get on with red-tape functionaries: in
nocent-minded. impulsive and lacking
in the arrivist's tranquil astuteness-
During years Turpin suffered from
the malice of men and the prejudices of
official savants. He invented Fenian
fire. capable of throwing panic into an
entire army corps by terror and sur
prise alone: and the French military
authorities would not look at it. He in
vented non-poiSonous paints - with
which some one will make fortune
some day; but. be sure. it wont be Tur-
pin. He invented the actual French
artillery shell in use. hatcnt No.
.542, year 1SSl.)
Then the war broke out
TRANQUILITY. they took Turpin's shell.
poured Turpin's melinite into IT. and
got busy. never saying Thank YOU
Turpin did not care. He said. France
first
And added. Here is turpinitc, if you
want it
They took his turpinite. without its
name. Call it modern melinite. or
N odern 1yddite. If Turpin should IN
vent a perfume. they would call II
Durand's bouquet or smiths garden.
But now YOU know why the new French
artillery range is so much longer anu
why English dreadnaught gums pene-
trate armor plate like hot iron IN but
ter.
Meyer did = charg. of English cordltc
make holes like these. Lat" III ME Al
fred Nobel worked again on his gum
DYNAMITE With sufficient percentages
of nitroglycerin in il, he obtained Il
uon-d etonating explosive -not smash
ing. but propulsive-which he called
Nobel powder or balistite. England
adopted it as cordlte, Italy as hiite. and
Germany under German name. winch
escapes me. They imagined they MAD
something far more powerful IMAM
French smokeless powder. but admit
teddy heating, rapidly wearing out the
cannons.
Lucky for France Turpin was there
And Nobers compound of dynamite and
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work and hungry most Of the time, are
nla king good pay Whereabouts, and
after it's finished thcrcll be another
thousand odd places open for women
like myself who know how to run
sewing machine.
Every gnou clothing factory in the
East End has quit making ordinary
citizens coats and trousers and is busy
with government contracts SO big that
they most likely can't ever fill them
Usually they turn off a lot of hands
this time of year, but now they can
get enough real first-claSS workers.
still. there's plenty of men. young
and Old. left in England. who have to
wear clothes same as always. Some
body's got to be found to make the or
binary men folks suits. With All the
factories sewing up uniforms there $
plenty of work thrown into the hands
of the little tailoring shops and theyr
sending ont their work to the homes
where women. who caut leave their
babicS or their old people. are only too
glad of a chance to turn their hands
to something that pays better than
tidyiHg up their houses. ] snail be at
that sort of work soon. hope. and
then I'll do my bit to help another
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Inventor

Special - Correspondence of Tao star.
PARIS. March 10.
~ lIf. world thrilled when in the
early stages of the war it
heard Of turpinite-alleged gas
< used by the French. which
brought instant. rigid death to whole
companies of German troops, yet with
out visible wounds
Turpinte exists; but il is not that
gas. 1t penetrates armor plate like
cheese. and makes death on the field Il
pleasure. Thousands who looked COM
fortably dead have come back to life,
complaining, What is" Must We so
on fighting""
Turpin. its inventor, is as tender
hearted as was the great Alfred Nobel,
who imagined that he had abolished
war by ma king it terrific. But. unlike
Nobel. he will not found Turpin prizes,
because he has not the money.
one day the great Alfred Nobel cut
his finger and poured collodion on the
wound-that sticky huid. Gunpowd der
dissolved in alcohol and ether, which
dries to a film. like new skin. The
pain kept him awake at night. The
collodion gave him an idea. At am.
he Went to his laboratory and succeed
ed in incorporating the guncotton III
coIIodion with oElycerin. Such was
the origin of dynamite gum, in which
the two exploSiN complete each other,
more powerful than the simple dyf: =
mite. which started the vast N"hcl
fortune. That St"cplcSS night gay"
Nobel twelve moro millions.
Tho great Eugene Turpn ono ia y
burned his finger. licked IT, aud went
working. The pain kept Inn awake
at night, and thinking about picric
acid, he got up aud invented melinite--
that smashing in -all-directions eNplo-
sive which the French army pours,
melted. into shells; so cheap. quick
and safe to handle that the cannons
never lack them. That sleepless night
gave Turpn zero dollars and the hump.
He never got cent from the French
government
His scientific completeness was aues-
toned, blandly. by official engineers
who had invented nothing.
The English government took his
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Old folks. ana it hasn't put penny
extra in the pockets of sick people.
I'm moi the only mother with Il
large family of little ones Who isn't
able TO improve her condition. There 5
lots of weak mothers who haven't the
hope I've got of being able to take
in work from outside. They're not en
joying this war. You might look into
lots of homes out this way and find
old-aSe pensioners that have scarce
enough strength to go out of a inarke t
day aud buy their hit of food, and
sick folk that cant even raise ha nd
TO feed themselves . and have to let
their neighhcrS care for them. Ana
whole families where the mother. with
her bit of y Widows pension. can hard
~ keep her babies from starving and
freezing before her own eyes.
People like these barely Sed to
scrape along when prices We're al their
lowest. Now they don't manage n all
Some will buy coal to keep warm and
then go hungry: others will shiver
while they eat their little bite. accord :
ing TO Their tastes. The charities are
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know how to gel along without that.
Il have figured out what ! Will spend
on food each week aud newer 60
outside my limit. once d day we have
siNpence worth of meat or fish. That
Sixpence worth has to do for live
mouths. That makes three ShillingS
SIN pence a week for meat. | never buy
fresh milk except for the baby. We
have to be satisfied with condensed
milk served in the tea. MIX, tea and
a little sugar. with perhaps some Cocoa,
takes two shiilinSs fourpence. fota F.
toes and bread are really what keep us
nouriShed. Potatoes come to one shil-
ling siXpeuce Il week and bread costs
ShiliucS thrcepencc loaf
The rent takes five shiIlingS SiXpeu"e
and fuel costs three Shillings four
pence
In all then. YOU see. figure how ] may,
it takes twenty three shiiingS and two
shillings and siXpence to house, heat and
feed my little family. Only four Shil-
lngs and fourEence is left for me to buy
any other odds and ends the family needs
during the week / make out to get
along. but it's only a bare existence
Its like I've told YOU. though. While
there's hundreds in til" East End that
have as hard a time as | do to max"
what they've got buy what they need,
and hundreds more even worse off than
the other half there's thousands and
thousands that live easier than they ever
did before because the WAR has brought
them work and the work has brought
them money.
The little woman smiled brightly
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doing a lot to help such folk. but we
in the East End know from trying it
that charity doesn't help very far or
Very long.
): :;
My children don sIarve and they
don't freeze, but if prices climb high
er I'm afraid they'll have to do one
or the other. or may be both. When T
tell you how | manage to feed my
babies and keep them warm you'll see
how hard the war has been on the
folk whose pensions aren't near the
size of my separation allowance.
II have to watch every least farthing
spend to stay inside my allowance.
The only way | can keep the children
nonrished is to buy just solid food.
There isn't any money to spend on
cakes and tasty dishes. The only
sweets we have are uourishinG pud-
dinSs. and can't afford them except
ing twice week. I do make out to
have tea twice day. We shouldu't
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lat the War Has Done to L0ne10ns Poor Distric

East End BaefelWve and Moth
Bhnd-F1ow
Has Helped Thener Why This
Aoun"Ao
Labor LeadeOne Hundred Winners Called
Vomee-hy
DUe.
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A MILITARY aJt:che said at "a NASH
IA ingtou luncheon;
Modern warfare has no picturcsaue-
ness. no beauty. y wounded soldier at
charIeroi was asked TO describe his i'm
pressions Of q modern battle. lie cased
his face bandages and replied:
~ modern battle" What's il like?
Well first you hear deuce of a noise.
and then the nurse Says, Try and take
q little swaller o this +"
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family out by paving ono Of my neigh
bors TO do my washing aud help me
with the houSeWork.
Our East Emo men who have not
gone to war don't lack for work to do.
Those that arc good at a trade are all
working about London ut higher wages
than ever they had before. and those
that aren't trained to be carpenters, or
maSonS, such. Just go and take
walk along the docks aud find all the
longsiorc jobs they need to keep them
busy week IN and week out The rail
roads are short of labor. there aren't
enough drivers for the trucks and lor-
ries about the city, the omnibuses and
traIncars have taken hundreds of our
men and trained them to fill the places
of drivers and conductors that enlisted
for the fighting in France. Every fac
tory that uses men wants able lads
to help supply the government with
hardware and leather goods and
canned food and guns. There just are
not enough of our men to fill the jobs
that are open. We're sending out
women and boys to do the work and
earn the pay of the soldiers who have
left us
y shadow passed over the face Of the
speaker as she ceased dwelling upon
the bright side of the changed life in
the East End and turned to darker
phase Of the wartime existence of her
self and her neighbors.
Yes. she said. Its a bit of luck
that money comes SO easily these days.
II It weren't that soldiers wives get
their separation allowance and that
everybody who has a mind TO can find
work at good wages, the war would
starve us out in this section of the
city. Prices are going up at such a
rate that if they don't stop shortly We
a he off h9n
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led from the DAY they were born and
it's harder life they've had since
they took to earning potatoes and
bread for their wives and their chit
dren. and it's taken the heart out OF
most Of them So that They've little
enough time 10 spend in making MS
love them. A MANY a man. dare say,
was gladder to leave his family than
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the fireplace or stored up in the penny
savings bank.
IF You'll take a turn round he cor
ner into old Ford road you viii see
" here eleven tenement houses have
been torn down TO give room for a new
factory that's being run w to make
uniforms in. While it's building men
and boys, that might have been out Of
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Killed, but NC hope he'll have to stay
away a long tine. That shows how
lots OF the families out here feel to-
ward their mcn-foikS.
Not that our mcn-folli. mostly, are
not = good lot at heart and brave. too
Mere proud of the way they've gone
TO fight for England and Wc'II welcome
them back, but it's Il hard life they We
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nitroglyceriu to make supcr-guH-
powder will help us believe In fabu-
lous turpinite. which. it would seem,
has two regimes of decomposition. pro-
pulsive and smashing. without danger
of passing accidentally from one to
the other--stS certain smokeless pow
ders may. at times. by mere age.
These secrets are kept wrapped in
darkest mystery: only their effects are
positively known: but Europe is now
sure that turpinite has nothing to do
with the alleged gas. supposedly that
of hydrocyanic acid. procured by put
ting the deadly poison. cyanide. in sui
heavier than the air.. ran the early
cablegrams. and therefore would flow
into depressions like trenches and kill
all within them
Turpin calls it "dirtiuess. He would
never recommend such Borgia COM
pounds for two reasons, the second be-
ing that they are impossible. The gas
might, possibly. explode from shells:
but instantly diluted in the pure air of
heaven. they would be harmless.
Yet entire groups of the enemy have
been found lying. sitting, and even
standing dead. without the mark of 1t
wound More extra ordinary Vet. two
thirds of these dead men get up. after a
time. and walk around. complaining as
I told YOU: "Why did you wake me
up? | was having such q good rest,
From which il is believed that death
by turpinltc is pleasure.
German army doctors undcrSta nd
these deaths and Simili-dcaths without
wounds. At first they We're ascribed to
simple meiinite shells. Intense she'll
ing with German high explosives had
caused similar phenomena among the
French. but rarely. 1t is the noise.
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"Supposiug the change had made liv-
ing out here harder for us we shouldn't
have been SO pleased with il. but You
see, sir. IN some ways it's made things
a bit easier, The separation allow
anCe has done lot that way and then
there's any number of other things
have happened that put bit more
coppcrs IN our pockets and some'at
more of food III our mouths and
clothes on our backs.
Not only tar soldiers families ara
making their extra pennies nowadays
We all. that is al of us who have a
trade we've learned. are getting our
share of tho work left behind by the
boys who've gone to the war. There
are thousands of women whose hus-
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his family was to see him so. It's the
eluiiness of ON lives in the East End
that kills the love. We're glad of the
change tine war has brought. most of
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crowded sidewalk with her BATTLEFIELD
market basket swinging from her
rr"ager arm War has net hurt l,isi-
boss. he suggested. indicating the
halstlirC seen" in the "R"ad' With n
wave ~ IN" hand How does the
East End pay ror its food wi,u thou
SAINTS of its lrctd Winners gone t" tine
N:grS
~ you-lI come along homo WV me
IN stor bit Ih'i ltl vow s"ucaf
nhaht H.. She answered in her very best
corkncy
Her home lay ia 4 row of typical
East London teuemeuts that stretch
In m"noton1us sameness along 81.
Stephens road 1t consisted Of three
shabby rooms on the ground floor The
kitchen was also the dining room and
the parlVr u contained = table, two
chairs. - stove. Il sink and live chill
q zen, The children ranging from ten
year-oid 10y {" Sin week odd baby.
TIE jura,e Of furnishings and human
beings occupied matter of SIX by ten
feet II hoor space The room with
5 contents was prototype Of & thou
sand other such ZONES in hat district.
The mother cleared passage to the
table aud proffered the better of tn.
two chairs to her visitor. Then, while
she spread thick slices Of bread for the
children and brewed them each a cup
Of the Inevitable English tea. she told
the story of the East End and how it
lives III war time.
pfvestiug her simple language of its
auaint cockuey tricks, this is what
She SAID: .
III seems very queer. until YOU stop
10 think about II, hut tins war has
helped . I"t II ~ on here III The Ia st
Enl happen IL b. worse OF than
Was Gcforc the war because I've had
bId lucE I took pneumonia " hen la by
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-12-24
DESCRIPTION

Filed i'm the Office of the Secretary of
state, pursuant to the provisions OF Sec
tion l, of Chapter 1873 of the General
Laws of Rhode Island, 1909, entitled,
"Of the Protection of Owners of Cans,
Bottles, and other Vessels used i'm the
sale OF Mineral Waters, Milk, Beer, Wine
or other beverages and Compounds"
Name of person, co-partnership or cor
poraton, Knowles Brothers.
Principal place of business,
Brook Farm, North Providence, r. l.
Nature of business transacted, Milk
Business
Kind of receptacle used, Bottles and
Cans
Description of the name, device or
other designation of ownership:
On bottles, within a circle on the side,
the words, Knowles Bros, Brook Farm,
NO. providence, are blown, engraved,
etched or otherwise inscribed
On some cans, brass or copper plates.
on which are stamped the words,
T. f. Knowles, are soldered to the brest
of the cans on the front. On other cans,
brass or copper plates, on which are
stamped the words, Knowles Bros, are
soldered to the brest of can on front
On other cans the letter X. on which is
stamped the words T.. +. Knowles, or
Knowles Bros, is soldered to the brest
of cans on the front On handle of cans
are stamped the words, T. +. Knowles
or Knowles Bros.
In Witness Whereof, / have hereunto
signed my name this fourth day of
December. in the year, 1915.
KNOWLES BROS.
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DESCRIPTION

Filed in the office of the Secretary. OF
STATE, pursuant 10 the provisions Oh Sec
IIon /, OF Chapter 1875 OF the General
Laws OF Rhode Island, 1909, entitled
"OI the Protection OF owners OF Cans,
Bottles, ana otner Vessels used in the
sale oil Mineral Waters, Milk, Beer, Wine
or otner beverages and Compounds"
Name OF person, co-partnership or cor
poration, a. j. Newman.
Prlnclpal place OF business,
.. MANTON, X. /.
Nature of business transacted, MIX
Dealer.
klnd of receptacle used, Bottles and
Cans
Description of the name, device or
other designation OIL oWnership.
On bottles, within circle on the side,
the words, a. j. Newman, Manton, X. l.,
with the letters A. j. n. in the form OF
a monogram IN the center, are blown,
engraved, etched or otherwise inscribed.
On cans, "A brass OF copper plate on
which is stamped the words, A. j. New
man, is soldered TO the Drest of cans OH
the front. The words, A. j. Newman,
are also stamped on the brest Of cans on
the SIDE, and on the handle.
In Witness Whereof, 1 have hereunto
signed my name TINS seventh day OIL
December, in the year, 1915
A j. NEWMAN
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-12-24
DESCRIPTION

Filed in the office of the Secretary of
State, pursuant to the provisions of Sec
ton /, of Chapter 1873 of the General
Laws of Rhode Island 1909, entitled
"Ot the Protection of Owners of Cans,
Bottles, and other Vessels used in the
sale OF Mineral Waters, Milk, Beer, Wine
or other Beverages and Compounds"
poration, j. A. Dolan.
Principal place of business,
MANTON, X. i.
Nature of business transacted, Milk
Dealer.
Kind of receptacle used, Bottles and
Cans.
Description of the name, device or
other designation of ownership:
On some bottles within a circle on the
side, the words j. A. Dolan, Manton, II.
L., with the letter ID. in the center are
blown, engraved, etched or otherwise in
scribed.
On other bottles, within a circle on the
side, the words, j. +. Newman, Man
ton, r. l., with the letter N. in the center,
is likewise inscribed.
On some cans, the words, j. A. Dolan,
are stamped on brass or copper plate,
and soldered to the brest or the can on
the front The words, j. A. Dolan are
also stamped on the brest of cans on the
side and also on the handle. On other
cans, a brass or copper plate, is soldered
to the brest of the can on the front, upon
which is stamped the words, John f..
are also stamped on brest of cans on the
side and also on the handle.
In Witness Whereof, L have hereunto
signed my name this third day of
December, in the year, 1915.
j. A. DOLAN