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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1902
Page
2
A nostalgic piece chronicles a private in the Philippines dreaming of home under a starlit sky. It contrasts his soldiering wit and charm with officers’ frustration as more privileged youths seek discharge through clever, harmless mischief.
Captain Ballard of Fairfax County recounts the Civil War era tale of General Dahlgren’s cork leg captured during the Dahlgren raid near Richmond. After a $1000 reward prompted detectives to retrieve it, Ballard secretly returned the leg to Dahlgren but its final disappearance occurred when loyal friends regained it on a train and it was never found again.
A teacher asks why Cassius struck after a story of Caesar and conspirators. A small girl answers that he sought a 10 percent raise and an eight hour day, noting her father lives in a riverbank tent.
About 2000 farmers within a 30 mile radius of Chicago have had their homes equipped with telephone lines, expanding rural communication and business contacts substantially.
A Labor and Industry report by the AFL secretary notes vigorous activity in the building trade. The piece reflects on worker dedication and the cooperative spirit driving construction progress.
Carroll D. Wright notes changes in immigrant origins from 1821 to 1900 with Germany and Ireland providing large shares early, Canada Britain and Scandinavia contributing later, and the share from the main six groups decreasing in the last decade. The piece contrasts language mother tongue and total immigrant counts through 1900.
Secretary Frank Morrison reports to the American Federation of Labor that 1901 may surpass 1900 as the peak year for organization. About 1,500,000 members are affiliated, led by New York with over 250,000 and Illinois with more than 150,000. Building trades show strong activity and wage gains, with machinists among major strikes.
The Amalgamated Association and machinists report success in securing recognition, while steel workers see little progress. The American Federation claims over 2,000,000 workers affiliated or unaffiliated nationwide, illustrating the size of organized labor at the time.
A Georgia woman delivers mail on a forty mile rural route and farms a large tract, supporting a family of four. Near Savannah a widow runs a government contracting business on wreck removal and dredging. A New London Northern line employs the world’s only woman train dispatcher, working long hours with high responsibility and equal pay.
E W Tatum president of the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders is a national figure among capitalists and workers. He helped execute a trifurcated alliance in printing crafts and rejoined as president after a Baltimore trip and Indianapolis conference. He hails from Memphis, is 36, and has long led union efforts in Chicago and at No 25. Also noted is the San Francisco waterfront strike ending after July 24 with fourteen thousand workers united, underscoring concerted action’s value.
A Richmond Indiana case upheld a law fixing unskilled labor pay at 20 cents an hour. The court ruled the city rate of 15 cents invalid and awarded back pay to the city employee, affirming state power to set minimum wages in such cases.
The Typographical Union warns members they will remove card privileges from any worker on an anarchist paper. At Willoughby Ohio 125 employees of the American City Working Machinery Company recently returned to work after a time clock change reduced friction. the firm agreed to drop the clock. The article warns that nonunion workers risk wage cuts and that returning strikers may be kept out or outperformed by skilled nonstrikers.
The text surveys the cougar across continents from Pennsylvania to the Andes and Amazon forests, noting its elusive nature, nocturnal habits, hunting of deer and livestock, ease of killing dogs, occasional human attacks, and the mix of fear of man with dangerous prowess despite rare actual assaults.
The Atlantic Magazine notes that Pan-Europeanism aims to push a global tariff weapon but England and America would resist. The piece argues the concert of Europe cannot threaten Britain or the United States, and if Europe sought to bar American exports, England would join America to defeat it.
Insects hate tobacco as much as the cleanly housewife. Soak tobacco stems in boiling water, steep several hours, strain, and dilute until faintly brown. Immerse plant tops in the solution, washing them clean as a simple home remedy for houseplants.
The article notes that a young girl may accept only flowers bonbons or books of music from male friends unless a trifling gift of no real value accompanies the gesture. It emphasizes that many variations exist within this limited set and that the choices are broader than they first seem.
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