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Newspaper
Bedford Free Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1907
Page
6
A letter from R. A. Gray of Oakville Indiana describes ten years bedridden with kidney disease. After trying top medical care with no relief he credits Foley's Kidney Cure, recommended by a physician, with improving his condition. The genuine product is in a labeled package and sold by H B Rhoads.
A letter from Queen Elizabeth of Roumania proposes life in the City of Light near Bucharest for Mr. Samuel Bowman an American blind man from Middora. Through the American minister Horace Knowles, arrangements would move him to Naples then to Sinaia for care, learning a trade and joining eighty others in a community of music, crafts and schooling with multilingual support and daily joy.
A looming telegraphers strike and a 25 cent daily wage demand drive union action. Seventeen thousand machinists in Greater New York threaten to strike this week after pay increases were denied. The period includes receptions for Prince Wilhelm of Sweden, ABA and International Law Association meetings in Portland Maine, and abolition centennial events in Boston.
Des Moines reports that war maneuvers added no more than 1500 dollars to Iowa’s annual guard encampment costs. The state covered only campsite and nuisance damage claims. the federal government paid transportation subsistence and all other expenses besides soldier pay. The total would have been similar with a stationary camp as well.
In Pittsburgh on August 26 Western Union cut pie from the dining room menu for strikebreakers and downtown workers. Messenger boys halted service shouting no pie no work, disrupting deliveries. Previously, when they struck for 3 cents per message, the company offered meals, but yesterday pie disappeared and the revolt followed.
Boone Iowa August 26 Newton and Northwestern strike ended in record speed with seventeen hours from walkout to settlement. Workers return to duty tomorrow. Freight workers receive ten cent daily raise and passenger staff same. All overtime delay and switching time paid. M W Cadle, assistant grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, departed the city.
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