Packing House Strike Settled At Conference
Chicago dispatch reports end of a nine day packing house strike with a mutual arbitration plan. Wages and conditions to be submitted to three arbitrators with representatives from packing companies and unions. Old employees to be reinstated within 45 days. those not reemployed may appeal to arbitration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers and Butchermen of
North America
Chicago
Arbitration Board
End of Season Shoe Sale on Slightly Worn Men's Footwear
Our annual clear out offers men s shoes in odd lots, shop worn but first class in wear. Prices drop from 3 50 to 1 95, 4 00 to 92 45, 5 00 to 9 95, and 5 50 to 3 50, as listed, with excellent savings and no wear quality damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balmorals
Oxfords
Beef Exports May Drop Off Amid Packing House Strike
Packing house strike in the city delays cattle shipments and dressed beef. European liners sailed with limited beef loads for Hull and Liverpool ports. The week’s departures show cattle and sheep cargo, with wheat, cotton, and bales noted on other ships.
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Maxonia
Liverpool
Colorado
Hull
Eng
Life for Unknown Life for Unknown
Constable John Lynch of Cambridge risked his life to rescue a swimmer in the Charles River near Magazine Beach yesterday afternoon. The unknown man cramps, cried for help, and was towed ashore after a five minute struggle. Lifeguards revived him. Lynch was exhausted but saved a man whose name was not learned.
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John Lynch
Cambridge
Charles River
Magazine Beach
Lynch
Ambidge Lad Albert Robinson Held for Larceny
Cambridge youth Albert Robinson aged 18 of 27 Elm street was arrested by Officer Ginty for larceny of five dollars from Adelaide McLaughlin last night.
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Ambridge
Albert Robinson
Elm Street
Cambridge
Ginty
Adelaide McLaughlin
31000 May Strike In Fall River Mills
Fall River July 20 Unless cotton mill managers who operate union plants abandon their plan to inaugurate a new wage scale that cuts earnings 12 1 2 percent, 31000 operatives will strike. Textile Workers Union voted 1510 to 396 to strike after five unions held meetings. Carders and Spinners opposed but bound to walk out with weavers loom fixers and slasher tenders. Even nonvoting workers may be drawn out as absence of union workers stalls mills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fall River
Textile Workers’ Union
Textile Council
Carders’ Union
Spinners’ Union
Massive Fashion Sale List With Prices From Wool Suits To Kimonas
A long scattered sale advertisement lists 9 Mohair and 10.50 Wool Batiste suits plus Pure Linen and Silk options with prices from 3.50 to 30 dollars. Damaged silk items appear at 15 and 18 dollars while coats, skirts, waists, millinery, hosiery, gloves, belts, and kimonas are shown with assorted sale prices. References to multiple fabrics and colors indicate a department store liquidation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cravenette
Lisle
Runaway Girls Placed on Probation in Newton Court
Florence Battles and Katherine Fennelly, both under 15, were arraigned before Judge Kennedy for running away. Apprehended in Nonantum square at 2:30 am, they were placed on probation with a condition to find a home outside of a penal institution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton
Florence Battles
Katherine Fennelly
School Street
Badger Place
Charlestown
Kennedy
Nonantum Square
Mary Mannering Tour Winds Up With Autumn Event
Mary Mannering and James K. Hackett, married May 2, 1897, in New York, are to face an autumn interruption to her touring schedule. Hackett left his own company to star beside Mannering, who first appeared in The Courtship of Leonie. They kept their marriage secret until January 1898.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Mary Mannering
James K. Hackett
Miss Mannering
Beef Prices Drop Amid Beef Trust Probe
Prices for beef show a decline after the Post exposed the beef trust’s methods to secure high charges. The report notes fewer faters in the market and compares prices before and after the exposé, highlighting the impact on consumers and regional markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post
The
Beef Trust
Beef market slack as prices cut after Post exposé
Consumers bought beef 12 to 20 percent cheaper yesterday as the beef trust faces a glutted market and poor demand. Dealers reported offers at dealers own prices while agents pressed retailers to accept higher rates. With refrigerators full and outlook bleak, the market should normalize in a week or more.
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Post
Beef Trust
Trust
Brighton
Settlement Reached in Swift Packing Strike at St Paul
St Paul officials of the Swift Packing Company branch, the Union Stock Yards Company, and the local meat cutters union welcomed the settlement tonight. They pledged to abide by the terms as the blockade was lifted following the agreement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. J. Donnelly
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers’ Workmen of
North America
Armour & Co
Nelson Morris & Co
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Company
Swift & Co
National Packing Company
Cudahy Packing Company
Libby, McNeill & Libby
ST. Paul, Minn
Swift Packing Company
Union Stock Yards Company
Meat Cutters and Butchers’ Union
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Russia
Women’s Hospital
S. & H. Green
Packers
Tonique
Donnelly
Boy Thug
Concord
Walter Raymond
Melvinside Terrace
Reformatory
Annie Kenney
Adams Street
O’brien
Centlemen
Miller
Edmund W. Miller
Somerset St
Boston
Mass
Miller's
J.f.curley &Co
Hotel Davin
Tremont Street
Compton Street
Junk
Yalu
Hoysoyo
Yamaguchi
Fall River Mills
GTI Dlor
Aoaop
Acretia Bakers
POG Pior Ca
Ace
Oaks
dOe
Model (Inc
Winter St
Washington St
Washington
Hanover
F. Gray CO
Washington & Hanover Sts
Washington and
Hanover’ Streets
Electric
ST. Paul
Brine
Marshall
William H. Brine
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