Frick will outlines vast estate gifts and public gallery plan
Henry Clay Frick leaves the bulk of his estate to a public gallery titled the Frick collection to be housed in the New York mansion. Trustees include Mrs. Frick Miss Helen Frick Childs Frick and George Baker Jr. A 15 million trust funds maintenance and improvement of the collection house and grounds while a Pittsburgh tract of land near Homewood Cemetery is left to the city as a public park with 2 billion to the Justin Trust Company for park upkeep. About 5 million of the estate is divided into 100 shares to institutions including Princeton Harvard MIT and the Education Fund Commission. Helen Frick inherits the remaining 13 shares totaling about 600 thousand with restrictions. Executors include Mrs. Adelaide H. Frick Helen Frick Childs Frick and Henry C. Medowney and William Watson Smith of Pittsburgh.
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New York State
Frick
New York Mansion
Public Gallery of Art
Mra. Prick
Helen Frick
Childis Frick
George Baker
Pittsburg
Fourteenth Ward
Homewood Cemetery
Juson Trust Company of
Equa
Princeton
Harvard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Education Fund Commission
Lewis Cass Ledyard
Frieck
Fries Art Collection Corporation
Mr Friek
A Home Remedy Promoted To Avert Flu Epidemic
A Kentucky druggist urges avoiding crowds and using a mentholated arcine gargle and nasal spray as a quick remedy for catarrh and common colds. The ad claims a pint of remedy from three quarters of an ounce of Mentholized Arcine dissolved in boiled water cleanses the throat and nasal passages within days.
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Save Association
New York
Kentucky
Coal Production Across States Shows Rise and Labor Shifts
Reports indicate increased coal output in several states with fixed coke prices amid wartime shortages. Federal libel action in Spokane ended by agreement lowering gas coke by one dollar per ton. Oklahoma mines resume partial operations as volunteers and workers return. Colorado troops withdrawn while Montana guards arrive in Butte. Kansas surface mines run with volunteers. crude shipments limited as carts are loaded but not yet traded.
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Spokane
Washington
Oklahoma
McAlester
Robertson
Iowa
Colorado
Butte
Montana
Denver
Kansas
Huth
Newark Cyclists Win Six Day Race at Madison Garden
Alfred Goulett and idol Ma den of Newark won the six day bicycle race at Madison Garden. Oscar Wes of Switzerland and Warce Dupuy of France took second with Reggie McNamara of Australia following. The Mazin team from New Jersey and others completed the field after 2,101 laps.
American farmer leads world in crop output in 1919 report
Washington reports that despite Belgian and German yield higher per acre in some areas, the American farmer with war work value produced about two and a half times as much as Belgium and Germany, with crops valued at 15.872 billion dollars in 1919. Livestock value reached 8.89 billion, and wheat and corn harvests set records. The farmer push for more acreage continued, as planted wheat set a record and corn output surpassed 1918. Expansion depends on capital and labor, with cooperative associations urged to grow markets worth about 1.5 billion dollars.
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Washington
Joneton
Department of Agriculture
Belgium
Houston
Dieustou
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Brooklyn Reader
A Brooklyn woman testifies to relief from a year of misery and a run-down condition caused by displacement after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad invites readers with disturbing symptoms to write the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. for help, citing 49 years of experience.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Lydia E. Pinkham
Erim G. Lewis
Vernon Ave
Lewis
Lydia Bi. Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Rural Credit Unions and Federal Aid Pushed in Law Proposal
The plan outlines a system of personal credit unions for farmers with limited access to traditional finance. It calls for expanding facilities to aid marketing and extending market news services, continued federal road-building funding of 100 million dollars yearly for four years, and regulation of stockyards and packing houses. It also seeks consumer protections against adulterated feeds and fertilizers, increased rural school support, clearer rural problem instruction, improved rural sanitation, and hospital facilities.
Wilde Outpointed by Sharkey in Mixed Milwaukee Bout
British flyweight champion Jimmy Wilde was decisively outpointed by New York bantamweight Jack Sharkey in Milwaukee. Wilde earned 11 000 dollars for about thirty minutes in the ring as Sharkey won seven rounds to three with one even. Attendance reached about 7 500 with receipts of 25 000 to 30 000 dollars.
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Milwaukee
Jimmy
Wilde
Sharkey
Joe Beckett
Caperts
Seventy-One Steel Strikers Remain in Jail
Pittsburg Pa Dec 6 seventy one steel strikers arrested yesterday in Donora Va charged with conspiracy and intimidation of workers were still in the county jail at Washington Pa advices reach national strike headquarters. The other seventy two arrested were released on bail last night. The national strike committee will meet in Washington next week. Steel firms report week’s operations satisfactory despite fuel shortages.
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Pittsburg
Donora
Washington
V. @ Poster
National Strike Committee
William Hodges
Donora Organize
National Committee
Buckeye Power Bans Outdoor Sign Lighting East Liverpool
East Liverpool Ohio December 6 With a fuel shortage looming the Buckeye Power Company orders halt on lighting outdoor signs in East Liverpool and Wellsville The restriction aims to curb energy use and may extend to display window illumination starting Monday Power conservation measures affect local businesses and signage operations.
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Liverpool
Ohio
Buckeye Power Company
Wellsville
Virginia Campaign Over the Top in Baptist Fund Drive
Virginia fund drive reports show 6.85 million raised toward a seven million goal with many associations and churches over the top. Final tallies due soon as campaigns continue in Richmond Roanoke and surrounding areas. In Paris a rumored 1929 bout between Carpentier and Dempsey is discussed by Deschamps.
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Richmond
Baptist Campaign
Virginia
Alice
Aire
Augusta
Blackwater
Strawberry
Dover
Middle District
Roanoke
Portsmouth
Peninsula
Clinch Valley
Paris
Georges Carpentier
Chamlion
Jack Crempsey
M. Deschamps
Carpentier
Strenuous Effort To Avert Ohio Coal Crisis Grows
Ohio Governor Cox plans a Monday meeting with miners and operators to end the bituminous coal strike affecting utilities and industry. State officials warn plans to avoid suffering if talks fail, as cities face outages and plants risk shutdowns.
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Columbus
Ohio
Cox
Moore
Prominent Charleston Architect Ends Own Life
W. F. P. Davidson a fifty three year old Charleston resident and noted architect died by suicide at his home this afternoon. He had lived in Charleston for thirty years and planned a Florida trip for his health. He is survived by his brother John Davidson of Charleston and two children.
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Charleston
W. Va
W. FP. Davidson
Florida
John Davidson
Interwoven Mills to Halt Operations in Ten Days
Notices posted at Interwoven Mills plants in Martinsburg West Virginia announce coal orders suspended by the fuel administration. Operations will cease in ten days affecting two thousand workers.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
The
Fuel Administration
Railway superintendent files application in Kanawha and Michigan case
Charleston West Virginia December 6 application was filed today by A N Lyon superintendent of the Kanawha and Michigan Railway with the bile
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Charleston
W. Va
A. N. Lyon
Kanawha and Michigan Railway
Rail service cutbacks at Charleston amid coal shortage
The railway service commission approves removal of certain passenger trains from the schedule as the railway administration seeks curtailment due to a national coal shortage. Trains Nos. 3 and 4 between Charleston and Toledo and Nos. 33 and 36 between Charleston and Genley Bridge are slated for elimination next week. The Wheeling district steel strike appears to be easing as Wheeling Steel and Iron Company reaches an agreement to resume operations at its plants and Beawood coal mine within days.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Wheeling Steel and Iron Company
Beawood
Injunction Withdrawn Against AL Meeting in Chicago
The New York American League Club sought a temporary injunction to block Ban Johnson from holding the league’s annual meeting in Chicago next Wednesday. Justice Samuel Greenbaum heard the case last Thursday and a decision was awaited today.
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New York
American League Club
Crew Ite
Johnson
American League
League
Chicago
Samuel Greenbaum
Supreme Court
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