Engine Whistle Serenades Bride Wins Richmond Man
Robert Free man Ellington, a Richmond railroad engineer with over 20 years on the Southern, wooed Miss Margaret Angel of Manchester across the James by piping tunes from his locomotive. The pair met after she waited nightly to hear his unusual melodies, and courtship followed as he drove the engine to its destinations. Ellington’s romantic signal music captivated his bride, despite railway rules against whistling beyond required signals, with colleagues sometimes mimicking his sounds to aid the tale.
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Pittsburg Dispatch
Suwanee
Robert Freeman Ellington
Richmond
Southern Railway
Ellington
Margarette Angel
Manchester
James
Ell
Eugh
Raavey
Janmient
Tly
Belis
Nowtia
Tules Pny
Weather and labor notes from a 1908 Birmingham scene
A Birmingham News report blends a heat soaked street vignette with labor world notes. It cites the ninth annual British Labour Party conference figures, unions totalling 1,121,266 members, and 27,465 socialist members, plus several union actions and conventions across the United States and Canada, including wage demands by Rockmen and Excavators in New York and a Seattle printers’ resolution.
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British Labor Party
Rockmen and Excavators’ Union
Greater New York
Cigarmakers’ International Union
United States
Canada
Cuba
Porto Rico
Philippine Islands
Typographical Union No
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Muslin Underwear Sale At Half Price
A local sale offers 500 pieces of muslin underwear slightly soiled priced at about half their value. Garments range from 1.75 to 3.00 dollars and are being offered for 1.25 dollars.
Baby Caps Go On Sale At 19 Cents Monday Morning
About 200 baby caps priced 50 cents to two dollars will be sold Monday morning for 19 cents each. Caps are slightly soiled from handling in stock.
Ladies Kimonas 15 Trade Line Item
Catalog note lists Ladies Kimonas item number 15 in size 160, made of figured Batiste. Describes high quality material and suggests selling for more than twice the current asking price. Bargain offered: choose from the lot at 15 cents each.
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Batiste
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Him
Saya
Birmingham News
International Association of Marble Workers
Washington, D. C
Gov. Draper
Massachusetts
International Alliance and
International League of America
Boston
Moving Picture Operators’ Union of
San Francisco
Cal
San Francisco Labor Council
Cago
Cirrent
International Union of Printing Pression
Omaha
Neb
California
Theer
Massachusetts State Board of Arbitration
Cass
American Federaton of Labor
Memphis
Tennessee
Wallace
White
Madras
Moria
Ladies
Kimonas
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