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NOON .EDITION 126 WAITRESSES' CASES COMING UP IN COURT TODAY NOON EDITION WOLGAST WILLING TO PUT HIS DOUGH INTO CHICAGO CUBS THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper. N. D. Cochran, Editor and Publisher. 500 South Peoria St. 398 Tel. Monroe 353. Automatic 51-422. By Mail, 50 Cents a Month. VOL. 3, NO. 133 Chicago, Thursday, March 5, 1914 ONE CENT DEATH HOVERS NEAR SICK MOTHER AND HER BROOD OF EIGHT 0 o TheStory of Helen Davis, Who Went To Work At 14 In the Mill, Where Consumption Found Her Oat Her Brothers Also Victims. BY NLXOLA GREELEY-SMITH State Tuberculosis - Sanitarium, Mont Alto, Pa., March 5. Mrs. Mar garet Davis, wife of a" laborer, and eight of her children, ranging in age from 3 to 18, are all stricken with the terrible disease which men call, the great white plague, but which is real ly the blackest plague and the great est shame pf the human, race because it is the result of poverty. The poverty of the Davis family forced the girls and boys into ;child slavery. And that unholy slavery rushed motherland-children into con sumption. Doctors are inclined to think that two or three of the nine MAY live. The Davis children, started to work for a living when they were 14 years of- age. The father and these chil dren, all. working to maintain the lit tle home in Dickson City, Pa., got $60 a month. Two boys, Ralph and Joseph, work ed in a coal mine, one as breaker boy. The oldest girl, Helen, was em ployed in a silk mill. Working ten hours a day she got $4.50 a week. The windows of that silk mill were always closed so that the ends of silk might not be blown about and in jured. From the basement great