Railways face call for eight hour day by freight crews
The Transport Workers’ Publicity Bureau cites freight train teams pressing for a shorter work day. They argue current pay based on 100 miles in 10 hours is unfair, demanding 100 miles in 8 hours with no overtime, while noting costs, division lengths, and rising train tonnage.
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Transportation Brotherhoods
Fess
Colleda
Sac
Association of Western Railways
Mississippi
Mississippi River
United States
New Telephone Directory Entry Deadline Announced
A notice from Com' Manager Pr. D Gleason urges customers to order a telephone listing for the October directory no later than September 10. If visiting the office is inconvenient, payments may be sent by postal mail or telephone.
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Pr. D. Gleason
Civil Service Tests Set for Alliance Examinations
F. W. Hicks, local secretary of the U S Civil Service board, lists exams in Alliance with dates September 5 through September 12. Posts include Assistant Material Engineer, Tabulating Mechanician, Investigator in Co operative Marketing, Architectural and Structural Steel Craftsman, and Expert Driller with salaries ranging from 1200 to 2750 dollars yearly or monthly.
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F. W. Hicks
U. S. Civil Service Board
Alliance
Classifieds of Male Salaries for Cotton Classing Roles and More
A list of job notices showing male candidates with salaries ranging from 600 to 3500 in various roles including Cotton Classing specialists, assistants, mechanicians, nurses for canal services, patent office examiners, cooks, grain practice investigators, draftsmen, apicultural assistants, chemists, junior computer and fuels roles, mineral examiners, and laboratory assistants with dates such as September 19 20 21 and periods in September 2021.
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Patent Office
Cook
Ordnance Department
Sanford killed by Lightning on Webster ranch in lake country
Sanford, about 40, was struck by lightning Wednesday evening while in the bay field at the Webster ranch south of Pawlett. His wife was stunned by the stroke and found him dead on the camp wagon. The Kinkaidera family from near Tippetts were working in the hay field. He leaves a wife and three children. The body was taken to Bertrand for burial.
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Sanford
Geo. Sanford
Bay Field
Webster Ranch
Lake Country
Pawlett
Kinkaidera
Tippetts
Bertrand
Oshkosh Herald
Not-Killed Reportals and Feeder Sale Record
The report notes Mrs. Gar land Wehn of Bridgeport not killed in a Los Angeles auto truck incident. It also records a sale of thirty-eight feeders on the South Omaha market August 8 by B. F. Roberts of McGrew, averaging 1124 pounds and fetching $8.15 per hundred, a record-breaking price for the grower and the Great Western Commission Company which handled the sale.
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South Omaha
B. F. Roberts
McGrew
Great Western Commission Company
Wehn couple Hurt In Truck Rundown
Mr and Mrs Wehn former Alliance residents were seriously injured when a motor truck ran over them. They are living and expected to recover.
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Wehn
Alliance
Wellington Inn adds coffee room and lobby upgrades in Omaha
The Wellington Inn and cafe in Omaha unveils a new coffee room with novel equipment and a redesigned lobby featuring an oak beamed ceiling tiled floor mezzanine and wall paneling. The basement will house a barber shop public lavatory and toilet rooms while the coffee room and main dining room will have separate entrances. General manager R. D. McFadden notes western Nebraska patrons praise the inn and its new facilities.
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Wellington Inn
Omaha
Nebraska
R. D. McFadden
Alliance
T. FP. A
Wellington
Farnam
McFadden
Alchaya
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Railhroad Brotherhoods
Civil Service Examinations
Wehns
Garland Wehn
Bridgeport
Los Angeles
Maxwell
Maxwell Laboratories
George F
Hedgecock Automobile Copp
Tiemingford
Silaxwell
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