British Labor Chooses Constitutional Means Over Direct Action
The Trades Union Congress representing nearly 5 million workers voted 3,870,000 against direct action to 1,050,000 for it. Coal miners favored strikes earlier, but the broader labor movement backed orderly political action and legal persuasion to advance reforms.
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Trades Union Congress
Organized Labor
Great Britain
United States
Russia
Europe
Tennyson
England
America
Egyptian Styles Foretold In Coming Fashion Parade
Fashion writers report a Paris sourced trend mirroring an Egyptian frieze with straight silhouettes eliminating hips. Colors include blue green yellow and red in sharp contrasts. Headpieces feature flowers fruits and lapis jade bands across the forehead, promising a bright cubist inspired season.
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Fifth Avenue
New York
Fifth Avenues
Paris
American Woman in Moscow Sees Hunger Shaping View
An American woman in Moscow describes a sense of hunger as shaping daily life and even views dancing as making one hungry. The excerpt offers a bleak glimpse into the Russian food situation and suggests hunger could radicalize world views.
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Moscow
Victorian Self Viewlands on Modern Middle Class
An old-fashioned woman criticizes today’s middle class as lazy selfish and spoiled evoking pride in being a guided Victorian. She notes most girls lack understanding of middle class and mid Victorian terms, implying no hard feelings.
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Alf
Not Acceptable To Me on Peace Treaty Ratification
The margin note This is not acceptable to me marks the stance of President Wilson toward the US Senate on the peace treaty and league covenant. The delay stems from linking ratification to the covenant with no changes allowed, highlighting one man rule over representative government in Washington.
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W. W
Will
United States Senate
Congress
League of Nations
Washington
Strikes in Pennsylvania Cause $14 Million Loss
Reprinted Philadelphia Press notes 484 strikes in Pennsylvania last year cost $14,000,000 in losses. Over 170,000 workers lost wages and employment while employers faced curtailed business. The piece argues strikes are purposeless and preventable and urges abolition in favor of equitable dispute methods.
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Phildelphia Press
State Commissioner of Labor and Industry
Pennsylvania
Eleanor and the Blase Teens on a Sleeper Train
Two college girls on a train spend a long ride dissecting Eleanor, accusing her of acting bored and superior while secretly craving thrills. They dismiss her pretended worldliness as a pose and predict she would enjoy simple pleasures if she admitted it. Copyright 1920.
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Polly
Eleanor
Paddy
Mr. Smith
Engineer William G Atwood Leads Serbia Rail Rehabilitation Effort
Brigadier General Atterbury recruited William G Atwood from Chicago to direct technical services in France and later central Europe. In Serbia he heads a railroad restoration program, building beds tracks and supplying equipment while fending off Bolshevik influence labor shortages and political strikes. His work is described as extraordinarily demanding and crucial to reconnecting Serbia with the outside world.
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William G. Atwood
United States
Chattanooga
Tenn
Chicago
Wm. Wallace Atterbury
Wilson
France
Europe
Serbia
Kingdom Come
Atwood
Exhibition shows tobacco products at museum display
The Museum of Natural History features an exhibit of a cigaret a pipe a cigar and a jar of tobacco. The city approves streets cleanup plans and announces shorter women’s trousers for spring.
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Germany
Museum of Natural History
Gertie
Bessie
Norman Stuckey
Rural school reformers urge kept one room schools for rural districts
Sherman Parker argues rural districts should resist consolidation and keep one room schools. He cites costs for teachers and wages, shortage concerns, and the wartime era disruption shaping rural education. He questions how centralized schools would supply teachers and how city schooling shifts affect rural outcomes.
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Ihs
O. S
Athens Co
Athens
Sherman Parker
Dayton Union Men Brace for Later Work Hours
Dayton officials approve five month daylight extension causing union workers to start an hour later. Central Labor Union president Grant Fink says the measure delays plumbers and other tradesmen who rely on union labor.
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Dayton
Blessing to Ida Littlefield from Tanlac health aid
Ida Littlefield of Galesburg Illinois testifies Tanlac restored her health after years of suffering. She reports relief from indigestion swelling heart palpitations and back pain and gains in weight and energy. Tanlac is sold by The Cline Pharmacy Co in Athens and Taylor & Son in Coolville.
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Ida Littlefield
East Second Street
Galesburg
Taniac
Tanlae
Athens
Cline Pharmacy Co
Coolville
Taylor & Son
Polish duo fined for large nets fishing violation
Two men named Jim Barrett and Alex New, both of Polish extraction, were arraigned by Fish and Game Protector Hibbard in Justice Helwig court. They pleaded guilty to using large nets, each fined $25 with $3.78 in costs. Hibbard requested suspended fines on good behavior, pending Agriculture Secretary approval, and the men were allowed to go home minus their nets. They reside in The Plains.
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Jim Barrett
Alex New
Hibbard
Court of Justice
Helwig
Secretary of Agriculture
Democrats oppose Treasury plan for tax revision in Congress
Washington report says Secretary Houston's proposed tax simplification faces strong Democratic opposition led by Representative Kitchin from North Carolina. Republicans generally back the plan, arguing it may prompt action on revenue this session. Fordney also supports a flat tax on excess profits.
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Washington
Mar
Secretary of the Treasury
Houston
House
Kitchin
North Carolina
Kitchen
Wilson
McAdoo
Nitehin
Jazz Affronts to Toledo Jobs Sparks Bureau Query
Housemaids seeking work at a Toledo employment bureau are asked if their family owns a phonograph and jazz records. The response to jazz is blunt: No jazz, no work, reflecting a local slogan tied to job eligibility.
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JAZZS
Toledo
Australian Inventor Develops Water Tight Couplings
An Australian inventor creates water tight couplings for galvanized steel pipe enabling leak free connections. The breakthrough promises easier installation and longer lasting piping systems across construction and irrigation uses.
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Bes
Vipe
American mission to Hungary returns from Budapest
Gen. H. H. Bandholtz leads the American military mission back to the United States after spending substantial time in Budapest. The team served as military representatives and completed key tasks during Hungary’s revolts.
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Hungary
H. H. Bandholtz
U. S
Budapest
Students Strike Parade In Muncie To Support Pay Fight
Fifteen hundred high school students marched in Muncie Indiana to back teachers demanding higher wages. Led by a drum corps they walked business and residential streets carrying banners and tagging pedestrians with the slogan Save Our Schools.
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Muncie
Ind
Dead Man Comes to Life in Morqy
John Sak a 35 year old mill worker was pronounced dead after being found in the street in Weirton West Virginia. Twenty minutes later he revived in a Weirton morgue and was rushed to a hospital in Steubenville Ohio for treatment after an apparent medical incident.
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Morqy
Steubenville, CO
John Sak
Weirton
W. Va
Vola-Tonic Aids Cincinnati Woman After Illness
Mrs. E. M. Smith of 2518 Gilbert Avenue Cincinnati suffered stomach trouble and fatigue for two years and missed two months of housework. After a few doses of Vola-Tonic her condition improved. she reports stronger nerves and better appetite and recommends the tonic to others. Vola-Tonic is being introduced in Athens at Cline's Pharmacy.
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E. M. Smith
Gilbert Avenue
Cincinnati
Athens
Cline
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