Women of Texas Campaign for Better Conditions for Workers
Mrs. Claude De Van Watts leads a Texas tour to organize Woman in Industry and Child Welfare committees in Houston San Antonio Fort Worth Dallas and Waco. She aims to enforce labor laws for women and children by standardizing hours rest periods safety and equal pay, with strict posting of schedules and weekly rest rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Austin
Tex
Claude de van Watts
Woman's Division
Bureau of Labor
Houston
San Antonio
Fort Worth
Dallas
Waco
Watts
Food Hoarding Crackdown Targets Chicago Prices
Federal action to seize stored foods in Chicago seeks to curb profiteering heaviest in sugar and other staples. U S District Attorney Clyne plans immediate warrants after pending review by Attorney General Palmer. Mayor Thompson moves to sell surplus government foods through a city dept store loop while eggs butter and fruit prices fall and flour oversupply drags prices lower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States District Attorney’s Office
Central Sugar Company
Rockford
Ill
United States
Clyne
Washington
Palmer
William Hale Thompson
Strike ends with demand on government
Washington Aug 18 The railroad administration was notified that the shopmen strike had ended and was asked to consider the wage demands immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Railroad Administration
The Best Physic Ad Prefers Chamberlain's Tablets
An advertisement promotes Chamberlain's Tablets as a pleasant mild physic. It claims easy to take gentle effects and high regard from users who know their quality. The price is a quarter.
Riots Erupt Over Keystone Wire Strike In Peoria
Illinois militia rushes to Peoria as rioting erupts at the Keystone Wire and Steel plant after an eight week strike for higher wages and a closed shop. Governor Lowden mobilizes troops from Danville Springfield Rockford and Decatur as deputies guard the plant and six people are shot with injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
Ills
Illinois
Chicago
Keystone Wire and Steel Company
Frank C. Lowden
Danville
Springfield
Rockford
Decatur
Keystone Company
Farmers Blamed For High Prices By Jobber In O. C.
An Oklahoma City jobber and wholesaler blamed farmers for high grocery costs, saying no profiteering occurs. he cites grower prices on peaches apricots and tomatoes rising 1006 to 300 percent and notes 275 city grocery stores and 91 state jobbing firms would prevent illegitimate practice. Beans, by contrast, dropped to four dollars per hundred. He attributed high grower prices to government incentives to boost planting for war needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Army Recruits Reach Hundred Thousand for Permanent Service
Washington August 15 General Marsh chief of staff announced that the first hundred thousand recruits were secured for permanent service. Of this group over sixty eight thousand were re enlistments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Marsh
A Traveling Man's Experience
A Louisville traveling salesman recounts a severe cholera morbus attack in summer 1888. He paid a hotel porter fifty cents to buy Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy and took a double dose per directions, rising at five to catch a train and becoming well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Ireland
Louisville
Adv
The Dead Town and Its Capital Losses
An editorial warns that a town dies when capital leaves, urging residents and merchants to spend at home. It compares towns to corporations, noting that outward spending drains local money and triggers bankruptcy-like decline. It urges collective action to revive life while the town is still alive.
Man learns faults through marriage as wife reveals them
A humorous line notes that a man may not see his own faults until after marriage when his wife points them out.
Cotton use rises with July lint and linters totals
The Census Bureau reported for July a consumption of 509,793 bales of lint and 21,177 bales of linters, showing July demand for cotton products.
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Associated Press
Washington
Census Bureau
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Ian Hetil
Women of Texas
Crusade For
Mae
O. C
Ada
Coca Cola Bottling Co
Ada, Okla
Oklahoma State Bank
C. H. Rives
P. Reich
L. A. Ellison
Townsend
Hope-Comn Drug Company
1St National Bank
Stanfield Grocery & Market
the Farmers Store
Hinheset
Main St
A. L. Scott Lumber Company
Oklahoma
T. Braly
Cooper
COX Motor Company
Lexington
Maxwell Service
ADA Vulcanizing CO
W. L. Nettles
Brinlee & Wilson
Paint and Furniture Co
For
Oldfield
Ada, Oklahoma
M. Levin
Pontotoc Bldg
East Main St
Okla
Overland
North Broadway
W. Main
Sterling Motor Supply CO
Hood, Ajax
Republic
12Th St
On the
Ada Booterie
Granville Montgomery
Prop
MRS
Huber Orchestra
Rae. C. Hargis, Tailor
Main Street
ADA Music Company
Kimball Pianos
Player Pianos
Glines-Batell Millinery
Harris Hotel
Pelter's
Milady
Gay-Kirby Electrical CO
Liberty Market No
Liberty Markets
W. ¢. Sneed
M.E A.T
Hardin
Nagle
Canned Goods
Agar
Grant Irwin
12Th
BUICK
ADA ‘Title and Trust Company
UNION
ADA, Milling CO
ER. H. Barns
M. L. Holcombe
E. Main Ad
E. W. Whisenhunt
N. L. Wesson
Moline Universal Farm Tractor
Moline Tractor Implements
Pontotoc County
Case Tractors
E. H. McCkendree
W. M. Eaton
Res
F. R. Laird
First National Bank
WORKS
Wacker’s Variety Store
Jackson Bros
Coron
A. D. Coon
G. C. Core
Dascomb-Daniels Lumber Co
Electric Shoe Shop
Ada Steam Laundry Company
ADA Steam Bakery
Shaw
J. H. Durham
P. O
RED Cross Drug Store
M. A. Waits
City Cash Grocery
Chas. A. Zorn
South Broadway
Haraway & Blanks Insurance and Real Estate Loans
First Nat’] Bank
Warren
Pittsburgh
The
Edison
Real Music
NEW
Edison Phonograph Shop, Inc
P. B. Wilson Lumber Company
Henry Collins
W. L. Johnston
Ford Agency
Ford
W. E. Harvey
Mgr
East Main
A. M. Bailey
City Tailor
West Main
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