Siege at Tradea Hall in South Africa Strike
Johannesburg reports a major strike drama as Trade Federation of Trades leader Bain and supporters defend Tradea Hall behind barricades. Police clash with bayonets, many injured, 300 inmates inside armed and subsisting on fruit. Martial law proclaimed in Cape Town. press free speech restricted. railways keep partial service amid national labor war.
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Johannesburg
Tradea Hall
Bain
Federation of Trades
Benone
Transvaal
Department of Mines
Baln
McBride
Cape Town
Union of South Africa
Resinol Ointment and Soap Promise Quick Eczema Relief
An old advertisement touts Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap to halt itching and heal eczema rapidly. It claims instant relief from itching and burning, improved sleep, and complete eruption disappearance with doctors prescribing for years. It warns against imitations and offers trial sample through Reginol Baltimore.
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United States
Reginol
Baltimore
Legal fight over the $30,000 baby ends in settlement
Mrs Jacques Bradley Swift died after an operation in Washington. The custody of her child, the so-called $30,000 baby, was settled in favor of her sister and brother-in-law, who intend to adopt. The case followed years of separation and divorce proceedings with the child at the center of disputes.
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Santa
Swift
Georgia
A1 &L
Frank Pearson
East
Baker Street
Washington
Willy Child
Atlanta
Henry G Pearson
Stolk
Jacque
Wendell
Government Printing Office
Jacaue
Cummings Escapes Council Censure Amid Debate
The council defeated Lee’s resolution to censure Chief Cummings, voting to retain him as a voting board member. Reynolds and Ashley urged moderation, while the board approved a resolution to remove the chief as a voting member and clarified his authority over assistants. The board also opposed a petition to install two oil tanks on Rhodes Street and referred another petition to the street committee. Cummings sought authority to file a claim over a runaway automobile that killed a department horse.
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Reynolds
Lee
Claude L. Ashley
Ashley
Cummings
Griterion Ou Company
Rhodes Street
Halsey Street
Chief Cummings
Tto
Th Game Company
Blackburn Free and Aiming for Jack Johnson Match
Philadelphia January 14. Jack Blackburn, a Black pugilist, was paroled from the eastern penitentiary today after serving four and a half years of a fifteen year sentence for killing another man. Blackburn contemplates going to Paris to seek a bout with Jack Johnson. Best Lump Coal four dollars seventy five cents. Piedmont Coal Co. 1023.
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Philadelphia
Jack Blackburn
Eastern Penitentiary
Blackburn
Paris
Jack Johnson
Western and Atlantic railroad commission to draft report in April
The Western and Atlantic railroad commission returned from a Chattanooga inspection trip and will meet mid April to draft a rough report for the legislature. It was decided not to release full results yet. They forecast double tracking the road and a likely lease renewal, with Major J L McCollum supervising the special train.
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Western and Atlantic Railroad Commission
Chattanooga
J. L. McCollum
City plans grocery and coal relief stores for unemployed
January plans in Chicago call for a chain of city financed grocery and coal markets to aid out of work residents with small savings. City and county officials and labor leaders expect to start soon with $25,000 capital, renting stores citywide to sell food and fuel at cost.
Foster and the girl arrested in Mann Act case
Joel C Foster and Delilah F Bradley were arrested in Mobile on adultery charges after preliminary Mann Act examination. Bonds set at 500 each. Wester 3000 bond, Bradley witness 1000. Bradley’s father posted her bond. Bradley refuses to return to New Jersey asylum. Goode obituary notes death in Gulfport at 85.
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Mobile
Ala
Joel’ C Foster
Delilah F. Bradley
Foster
Wester
United States
Jones
Miss Bradley
W. P
Chicago
Toaster
Miles Bradley
Misa Bradley
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South Africa
Central of Georgia Railway
Oconee
Macon
Tennille
Savannah
Helena
Toomsboro
Millen
Covington
J. C. Haile
Johnson
Best Lump Coal
Piedmont Coal Co
W. & A. Commission
Jseries
Joe
Sai
Bradley
Thomas E. Goode
Gulfport
Aix
Confederacy
Albama and
Virginie
E. G. Willingham
Odo
E.G. Griffings
Gate City Dental Rooms
Whitehall St. Over Browt
Allen's
Eiseman Bros., Inc
Manhattan
Columbia
Cluett and Arrow
E.B
Hese
Sac
Dean
Norfolk
Childred AN
Streall Eizey
Steve
Whitehall
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