Union Chiefs Demand Steel Strike Monday
Reports from Texas Gulf storm area indicate a mounting death toll estimated between 200 and 600 with Port Aransas area figures around 350. Relief trains arrive as rain slows search efforts and looting is suppressed by patrols while many bodies remain unrecovered.
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Texas
Corpus Christi
Aranzas Pass
Port Aranzas
United Press
Houston
Rockport
Porter
Nueces
White Point
United States Public Health Service Hospital
Alexandria
J. M. Bogges
George Pierce
United States
Internal Revenue
Pierce
Washington, D. C
Aunt Fannie of Chillicothe Receives War Risk Benefit
Sept 18 Chillicothe Ohio Aunt Fannie Angel an elderly Black woman who cared for Robert Raburn at Camp Sherman will receive 50 dollars a month for life as beneficiary of his 10000 dollar war risk policy Raburn died abroad after a typhoid illness and service as a soldier. A separate note mentions a claimed 1090 horsepower aeroplane engine built in England.
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Chillicothe
Ohio
Fannie
Angel
Camp Sherman
Robert Raburn
Raburn
Cantonment
Aunt Bannies
Aunt Fannie
Mrs Mary Stewart Powers to Speak at Christian Church Tonight
Mrs Mary Stewart Powers a state worker for the WCTU will deliver an address at the Christian church this evening at 7 30 o clock. Everyone is invited.
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Mary Stewart Powers
The
Christian Church
Johnson Opposes League Covenant in Lincoln Speech
Senator Hiram Johnson declares America cannot amend the League of Nations from the presidency and vows to fight the treaty in Duluth and Minneapolis. He cites past examples of nations amending the plan and warns the United States alone cannot yield sovereignty to global governance.
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America
Nation League
Senator Johnson
Lincoln, Neb
Hiram Johnson
Lincoln
Northwest
Duluth
Minneapolis
Senate
United States
Congress
Johnson
Paris
Great Britain
France
Japan
Shantung
Wilson
Masons Set Special Communication at Paramathia Lodge
Special communication of Paramathia Lodge No. 25 F and A M on Friday evening September 19 at 7 oclock. Fellowcraft. Roy Hinchman W M J A Palmer Secy 9 18 2.
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Paramathia Lodge No
Fellowcraft
Roy Hinchman
W. M
Troop One Boy Scouts Convene at Presbyterian Church
A meeting is set for this evening at 7 o'clock at the Presbyterian church of Troop One Boy Scouts to discuss upcoming activities and duties.
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Presbyterian Church
Troop One
Boy Scouts
Sailors Union Backs Steel Workers in Proposed Strike
The sailors' union of the Great Lakes endorsed the steel workers strike plan in Chicago. Resolutions promise aid to organize steel workers and a sympathetic strike if needed, while seeking an eight hour day for sailors and extension of the three watch system.
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Chicago
Ill
Sailors’ Union of the
Clarke Arrested in Cleveland Warrant After LA Testimony
George F. Clarke testified he helped frame a divorce case against Mrs. Jeanette Reed of Los Angeles. He was arrested on a Cleveland Ohio warrant for bad check operations issued in 1917 after leaving the witness stand.
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Los Angeles
Cal
George F. Clarke
Jeanette Reed
Cleveland Ohio
Six National Guardsmen Wounded in Accident
Six state guardsmen were admitted to a city hospital in Boston after a gun discharged at Blue Hill Avenue police station sprayed buckshot over a wide area. All were shot in the legs but none seriously injured.
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Boston
Mass
Blue Hill Avenue
Former Athens Girl Teaches in Lima at Ninety Dollars
Mrs. Z B Heffner Evalena Davis of Lima has taken a primary teaching post at ninety dollars a month. Mr Heffner is finishing college in Lima and his wife joined him there in June after he returned from overseas service. Mrs Heffner is the daughter of Mrs Adda Davis.
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Z. B. Heffner
Evalena Davis
Lima
Heffner
Adda Davis
Academy of labor planned for Czechoslovakia
An academy of labor is planned to coordinate scientific and technical work in Czechoslovakia. The proposal outlines structured research effort and collaboration across disciplines to boost national productivity and innovation.
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Academy of Labor
Czechoslovakia
Pharoah-like Corn Oddity Reported on Ed Burke Farm
The By-the-Way Man found an unusual corn growth on the Ed Burke farm near Bethany church south of Stewart. Four stalks in one hill bore seven ears, a curious agricultural record amid a field praised as a balance breaker.
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Ed Burke
Bethany Church
Stewart
One Big Union ideas defeated at Mine Workers convention
The United Mine Workers of America at Cleveland rapped radical labor groups. A resolution endorsing the one big union was defeated by a large majority, and a bid to withdraw from the American Federation of Labor also failed. Delegates heard Rena Mooney, wife of Thomas F. Mooney, pledge support for her husband’s freedom and a $100 Mooney fund was approved.
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Cleveland, O
United Mine Workers of America
Miners’ Organization
American Federation of Labor
Washoe
Mont
United States
Rena Mooney
Thomas F. Mooney
San Francisco
Mooney
Peru to Link Remote Andes Communities by Air Service
The government plans an aeroplane network on the eastern slopes of the Andes to carry passengers, mail and freight, connecting scattered communities. The scheme envisions an aerial route system to improve communications and regional access.
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Andes
Made New G A R Commander Leads Brooklyn Veteran
Captain Bell of Brooklyn New York was chosen to head the G A R at the Columbus Ohio encampment. The Blue ranks thin yet remain faithful to Civil War principles as Bell commands a small but potent body defending the republic against modern threats.
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Bell
Brooklyn
N. Y
Columbus
Ohio
Leaders Push Nationwide Steel Strike In Pittsburgh
Union leaders in Pittsburgh announce a September 22 strike by steel and allied workers. John Fitzpatrick, head of the general committee, says workers will leave at 6 a.m. Monday unless Judge Gary yields. Ohio centers plan parallel action with up to 30,000 steel workers walking out, including 16,000 in Cleveland and 10,000 in Youngstown. Gompers and Wilson are not expected to intervene.
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Pittsburgh
Gary
John Fitzpatrick
Fitzpatrick
Washington
Samuel Gompérs
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Cleveland
Ohio
Henry W. Ratsse
Ratsse
Youngstown
Canton
Massillon
Conneaut
Alliance
Wheeling
W. Va
Pittsburg
Raisse
Wilson
Cleveland Federation of Labor
Scout Situation Here Satisfactory
National Scout Commissioner Barclay of Chicago visited Athens to review local scouting. He met with Scout Masters Morgan and Porter and several Scouts, expressing satisfaction with the program. Plans seek his return for a formal visit and a mass meeting, with Eagle Medals to Moler and Brown upcoming.
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Barclay
Boy Scout
Chicago
Athens
Morgan
Porter
Moler
Brown
Sinn Fein loan ad suppressed as troops seize Cork plant
London dispatch reports The Cork Examiner, sole Irish paper with Sinn Fein loan advertisement, was suppressed by British authorities and its plant occupied by troops. The incident underscores tense relations over nationalist fundraising in Ireland.
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London
Cork Examiner
Ireland
Sinn Fein
Girls Strike for Higher Wages at Ohio Lamp Plant
Warren Sept 17 Girls employed in the basement soldering department of the Ohio Lamp Division of the National Lamp Company went on strike for higher pay. They now average $3 a day and demand $3.50.
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Warren
Ohio Lamp Division
The
National Lamp Company
Wilson answers questions on nation league
President Wilson, amid rioting crowds in San Francisco, outlined his replies to San Francisco association questions on the league of nations. He argued six British Empire votes do not let London outvote the U S, denied troop-mobilization powers, praised Shantung restoration, denied U S obligation to England over Ireland, and described Article Ten as a forum for self-determination claims.
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Hugh Baillie
United Press
San Francisco
Cal
Wilson
Oakland
San Francisco Association
League of Nations
Great Britain
League
British Empire
Council
United States
China
Shantung
England
Ireland
Peace Conference
Local Democrat resigns over Wilson league of nations stance
Timothy E. Treacy, longtime California Democratic insider and Iroquois Club figure, resigns from the party body accusing the Democrats of bowing to foreign rulers. He cites Wilson's policies and laments imperial aims affecting Ireland Egypt India and China while noting his 2,500-vote convention support helped California.
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San Francisco
Cal
Wilson
League of Nations
Timothy E. Treacy
Iroquois Club
California League of Iroquois Clubs
Democratic Party
John F. O’brien
Takes Over Columbia's Hibbard Music Shop
The Zenner Company assumes control of Hibbard Music Shop on North Court Street and the Columbia agency Carman Church is placed in charge to run the shop as an individual music concern. A government scientist reports a Pacific kelp pickling breakthrough making edible seaweed.
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Columbia
PD. Zenner Company
Hibbard Music Shop
North Court Street
Carman Church
Cause
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Tex
Great Lakes
Captain Bell
Tive
Fitspatrick
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