Plumbers Clash Over New Wages in Butte
In Butte a pact between master plumbers and the local plumbers union provokes heavy criticism and delays building plans. Journeymen demand 19 dollars a day with a 50 percent public surcharge, threatening a $1.9 million backlog in upcoming projects and sparking calls for layoffs and cost absorption by employers.
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Butte
Union of Plumbers
Employers’ Association
Ellis
Montana Street
Master Plumbers’ Association
Plumbers’ Union
Master Plumbers
Butte Master Plumbers’ Association
Chouteau County Not Heavy Loser
Cattle and sheep endured the severe cold with few losses in Chouteau County. Stock raiser T. Larson reports feeding costs are high, horses on the range died without heavy coats, and higher prices may follow next spring due to reduced work stock.
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Chouteau County
T. ©. Larson
Butte
Larson
California
Crusade Begins to Dry Up World
Chicago reports that Miss Anna Adams Gordon president of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and Miss Julia F. Deane editor of the Union Signal announce global travels as part of the world dry movement. Passports to Europe have already been obtained.
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Chicago
Anna Adams Gordon
National Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Julia F. Deane
Union Signal
Gordon
Europe
Investigating Tot Awards And Decorations Controversy
A continued page discusses recommendations for decorations made by the fleet commander, noting many were not carried out. It states no staff member received a decoration except the chief of staff and argues an admiral's success depends largely on the loyalty and efficiency of his staff.
Tragic Vienna Death Duo Ended Their Lives
In Vienna Bertha Wohlgemuth a literature loving schoolteacher influenced a young student to join her in a planned double suicide. They met daily at a cafe for two weeks and after theater night arranged to die together. The man shot the woman then killed himself.
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London
Lapress
Vienna
Bertha Wohlgemuth
Schopenhauer
Lynching in North Carolina After Mob Takes Prisoner
In Franklinton a mob seized a black man named Wreen charged with murder of white theater owner R. M. Brown. The mob dragged him two miles behind a car and hanged him from a tree after recapturing him following a failed police transfer to Raleigh. Brown was fatally shot on the street.
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Wilmington
N. C
Wreen
R. M. Brown
Franklinton
Raleigh
Brown
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Wein’s
East Park Street
Hart Schaffner & Marx
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Union Rules
Magill-Nevin Plumbing and Heating Co
Chas
P. Nevin
Smashing
Columbia Records
Nora Bayes
al Jolson
Pal
George Meador
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Columbia Sextette
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