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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1906
Page
5
A Minnesota Education Association survey of 1,000 teachers highlights wages and professional challenges. Key factors cited include lack of appreciation, low standards, excess teacher supply, underfunding, and limited political influence. The article notes a clash between educators and broader public policy.
Easter dates are listed with Palm Sunday March 24 and Good Friday March 20. Spring begins March 21. The Chicago Great Western Railway offers half fare to Iowa Minnesota North Dakota Wisconsin and Northern Michigan timed Tuesdays year round. Bids due December 29 for lease of Anetin fair grounds 1907 with certified check required. Special holiday excursions sell round trip tickets to many points for one and one third fare with sale Dec 20–25 and Dec 29–Jan 1, usable until Jan 7.
New York authorities report that the strike on Southern Pacific lines affects only Texas and Louisiana between New Orleans and El Paso. Through transcontinental traffic remains expected to operate, as engineers stay at work and the dispute is over union jurisdiction rather than company wages or conditions.
A locomotive firemen strike took effect in the afternoon on Southern Pacific lines in Texas and Louisiana. About 300 to 400 men from twenty eight branches are involved after the company abrogated its contract with the firemen and aligned with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, ending the prior agreement.
An explosion at the Northwestern Gau Licht and Coke plant in Evanston killed Tease Terry and seriously injured three other workers. The blast occurred in a tar coke oil storage pit, throwing Terry into the flames.
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