Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1918 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

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A diamond factory for the employment of disabled soldiers has been opened at Brighton, England. More than 300,000 women are at present working the land in Great Britain, compared with 91,000 last year. Girls employed in the British .munition works in some districts cultivate the waste ground around the hostels. Mints of ti>e United States are located at Philadelphia, Pa., San Francisco, CaL, and Denver. Colo -

Britlsh railway unions have a membership of 425,000. In the first year of the war possibly 10.000,000 working days were lost by strikes of organized labor workers. Two policewomen are employed by Hendon (England) district council to patrol the streets and the public park. In England all private-employmedt agencies have been discontinued since the outbreak of war.. One thousand nurses applied for enrollment in the first four days of New York’s Red Cross drive for 5.00 ft