Mother Jones Urges Strikers to Stay Peaceful Amid Copper Mine Tensions
In Calumet Michigan on August 6 Mother Jones called for a senatorial inquiry into the copper miners strike. She urged discipline avoiding saloons and weapons while workers conserve funds for a long fight. The Western Federation of Miners passed resolutions praising Borah Martin and Reed and condemned authorities for troop use. Two Detroit guards at Osceola mine faced gunfire as violence flared. Walter B Palmer arrived to lead labor department inquiries, awaiting Washington instructions.
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Calumet
Mich
Western Federation of Miners
Jones
Laurium
Borah
Martin
Reed
West Virginia
Remai
Calumet & Hecla Mining Company
Detroit
Osceola
Walter B. Palmer
Wilson
Department of Labor
Palmer
Cincinnati
Washington
Joes
Lincoln
Ellis Island
Colorado
Michigan
Law and Order
Peace Between Balkan States Today
Peace between Balkan states is reported to be established today marking a potential halt to regional tensions. Officials from the involved nations express cautious optimism about lasting agreements and steps toward cooperation across trade and security.
Balkan Peace Ends War Talks and Impending Sofia Occupation
At Bucharest on August 6, Balkan delegates seal a peace with a preliminary treaty to be signed tomorrow by Servia Greece Montenegro Romania and Bulgaria. Romania warns that without acceptance Sofia would be occupied next Saturday threatening Bulgaria’s frontier as it yields Strumitza Lagos and Kanthi to Bulgaria and Kavala to Greece. The armistice follows Bulgarian demonstrations of helplessness and relief spreads among observers at the news of peace.
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Bucharest
Balkan
Servia
Greece
Montenegro
Omania
Bulgaria
M. Maiorescu
Rumania
Sofia
Struma
Strumnitza
Belesh
Mexa
Lagos
Kanthi
Kavala
Third Balkan War Forecast After Bucharest Peace
London reports the second Balkan peace congress reached a compromise nightmare for all sides except Romania. Bulgaria gains Northern Macedonia and about 60 miles of the Aegean coast to build a Philipopolis to Aegean railway but resents Kavala and the loss of Adrianople. Bulgaria aims to secure a revision of the treaty via the peace protocol. demobilization orders have been promulgated.
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London
Romania
Bulgaria
Bucharest
Macedonia
Aegean
Philipopolis
Kavala
Kavala Bay
Greece
Adrianople
Daily Telegraph
Columbus Knights Elect Re-elected Officers at Convention
Virtually all supreme officers of the Knights of Columbus were re elected at the annual convention session in Boston. James A Fla herty Philadelphia was chosen supreme Knight and John H Reddin Denver along with Judge Paul Leche Donaldson Iowa and William Dwyer St Paul were elected national directors.
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Boston
Knights of Columbus
James A. Flaherty
Phiadelphia
Supreme Knight
John HH. Reddin
Denver
Paul Leche
Donaldson
Towa
William Dwyer
St. Paul
Salvation Army and VOA barred from street services
Superior Judge Humphreys issued an injunction restraining the Salvation Army and the Volunteers of America from holding services in front of a downtown hotel. The order followed a hotelier's petition and ends decades of street activity by the Salvation Army, which had done street services for more than 25 years.
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Seattle
Humphreys
Salvation Army
The
Volunteers of America
Conditions Changed Senator Lipitt Told
Washington Aug 6 Senator Lip pitt of Rhode Island stirred senate leaders by charging that the cotton schedule discriminates against New England in favor of the South and was prepared haphazardly Georgia Senator Smith denied sectionalism and cited the subcommittee members Maine New Jersey and himself Missouri Senator Stone rebuked cotton manufacturers influence and urged a new era of tariff lawmaking Weeks and Williams quarreled over monopolies and exploitation with mentions of steel wool and cotton industries
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Washington
Senator Lippitt
Rhode Island
Senate
New England
South
Smith
Georgia
Johnson
Maine
Hughes
New Jersey
Stone
Missouri
Senator Stone
House
Congress
Weeks
Massachusetts
Williams
Mississippi
Two Rail Lines Extend Rapidly Across Sheridan County
Special Dispatch to the Standard reports Montana's busy railroad expansion in Sheridan county. The Soo Line will enter Montana within six weeks, building west from Ambrose North Dakota toward Outlook and Daleview, while the Great Northern pushes 51 miles from Plentywood to Scobey. Track crews lay steel at about 1.25 miles daily as hundreds toil. land sales have drained public land in the region.
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The
Standard
Helena
Montana
Sheridan County
Soo
Great Northern
Whipple
Register Oker
Plentywood
Scobey
Ambrose
N. D
Outlook
Daleview
Montana-Dakota
Navy temperance increases as sailors pledge abstinence
Philadelphia August 6 The Catholic Total Abstinence union opened its forty third annual convention with Navy chaplain Father Eugene McDonald declaring the United States Navy is 85 percent temperate. He cited 12 percent total abstainers and 8 percent temperate men noting fewer sailors enter ships drunk though some still go ashore for a beer as a safety valve.
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Philadelphia
United States Navy
Eugene McDonald
Total Abstinence Union
Father McDonald
Navy
Fumes Trigger Catkills Aqueduct Tragedy Deaths In NY
In Derwent New York 14 men were overcome by fumes from an explosive in the Catskill aqueduct 700 feet underground. One man died and about 400 others panicked as workers were dragged unconscious to a shaft and lifted to the surface.
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New York
Catskill Aqueduct
Derwent
N. Y
Lind arrives as U S envoy amid Mexican suspicions
John Lind special representative of President Wilson travels to Mexico City with credentials in question and the United States demand for recognition tied to Huerta's removal. Mexican officials denounce direct pressure and warn Lind could be labeled as inciting sedition.
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Mexico City
John Lind
Wilson
United States
Mexico
Republic
Washington
Huerta
Lind
Dreibelbis Drug Store Held Up by Three Bandits
In the Standard page a robbery at Dreibelbis drug store is reported with a clerk bound hand and foot. Other items include Envoy Lind persona non grata in Mexico and Calumet miners appealing to the senate. Also noted are Balkans peace, railroads competing for territory, J H Mears breaking a word record, Lippitt comments on changes, and race day headlines with results and ads.
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Dreibelbis
Lind
Mexico
Calumet
Senate
Balkans
J. H. Mears
Senator Lippitt
Tenara
Rich Kalamazoo
Goldberg
Butte
J. A. Metcalf
Mears finishes globe trip in record time
John Henry Mears, special commissioner of the Evening Sun, returns to New York on August 6 after a July 2 departure, setting a new best time for a world trip at 35 days 21 hours 35 minutes and four fifths of a second. He narrowly misses his schedule by four fifths of a second amid a roaring Grand Central welcome.
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The
Standard
New York
John Henry Mears
Evening Sun
Sun
Andre Jaeger Schmidt
Paris
Mears
Grand Central Terminal
Broad Way
Park Row
Vanderbilt Avenue
Forty-second Street
John W.rumsey
Sam Harris
George Cohan
John Drew
Harrison Fisher
Henry Hutt
Mr. Drew
Mr. Mears
Sun Office
Gove Nor’s Strikers In A March On State House
Two hundred strikers from Hyde Park factories controlled by Governor Eugene Foss marched on the Massachusetts State House demanding an immediate arbitration hearing. Chairman Howland refused to meet them, citing prior obligations, and the workers appealed to Governor Foss who said he had no authority to order action.
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Boston
Hyde Park
Eugene Foss
State House
State Board of Arbitration
Howland
Foss
State Board
Daring Hold Up of Drenbelbis Drug Store
Three highwaymen robbed Drenbelbis drug store at 429 North Main, tying clerk Leon Davis and taking about $8 plus keys and a knife. Davis, bound for 15 minutes, freed himself with a passerby, then alerted police. Detectives Van Orden, O’Donnell and White investigated. no getaway crew found. Davis described a short stocky man and did not fully see the third robber.
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Thornton Hotel
Leon Davis
Drenbelbis’ Drug Store
North Main Street
Davis
Padds Rodgers
Preibelbis Brothers
H. A. Amereaux
Navy
the Clers
Dav
van Orden
O'Donnell
White
Marcus Daly
Thad
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Iacene
Humania
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Anria
Columbus Knights
Salvationists
Lippitt
Irear
Louisville Courier-Journal
LOO
Old Town
Bulletin
GLOBE
Grand
Central Station
Gove Nor’s
Clerk
Dav's
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