Kansas City Floods Submerge Stock Yards and Departures
Floodwaters from the Missouri and Kansas Rivers swamp the Union depot area and West Bottoms in Kansas City. Packing plants Armour, Cudahy, Schwarzschild, and Swift are ringed by water with 15 feet depths, forcing evacuations and halting all trains and freight movement. The Live Stock Exchange basement and many offices are underwater as guards and police rescue trapped workers.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Santa Fe
Chicago
Ig Armour Packing Plant
Armour & Co
Live Stock Exchange
Union Depot
Union Avenue
Blossom House
Armourdale
Kansas River
Schwarschild
Sulzberger
Swift
Santa Fe Limited
Missouri Pacific
Alton
Burlington
Wabash
Missouri National Guard
West Bottoms
Argentine
Isan
Packing House
Stock Yards
Armour, Cudahy, Fowler, Schwarzschild & Sulsberger
Swift & Co
Heroic Rescue Amid North Topeka Flood and Fire
In North Topeka the flood and fire displaced hundreds. Rescue crews used a cable and pontoons to reach stranded families. Dozens were saved from trees and upper floors as water levels rose, while others perished. A Russian, a pastor, and many residents faced hours of peril with luck and faith driving survival.
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North Topeka
Henry
Goff
Isaac Stanton
D Street Baptist Church
North
Monroe Street
Sardou Avenue
Morse Street
E. D. Long
Charles Waldron
Santa Fe
Rock Island
W. N. Repard
Parsons
B. L. Wise
South Garfield Park
Patrick Peline
Annie Noble
Union Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific
Lowell mill strike storms loom with onlookers awaiting
Tonight's final prep for the crisis between capital and labor in Lowell precedes a mass return to work. Agents predict a speedy victory while strikers vow united resolve as the Textile Council eyes a 6 15 opening and potential partial restart with no police required.
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Belltime
Southworth
Massachusetts Mills
Post
Robert Conroy
Lowell
Textile Council
Conroy
Appleton Mills
George F. Kenngett
First Trinitarian Congregational Church
Smith T. Ford
The
First Baptist Church
State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration
Orville B. Coats
Fifth Street Baptist Church
A. St. John Chambre
St. Anne's Church
Joseph A. Fournier
St. Joseph's Church
Medical Advice on Body Wellness in Humble Tone
An exhortation on bodily health urges each organ to function properly and suggests taking a small dose of an unspecified remedy if not feeling well. The piece emphasizes overall systemic balance and preventative care.
Triscuit Biscuit Ad Slogan for Grocers
An old boxed advertise campaign promotes Triscuit as the supreme luxury of eating to live. It claims the electric baked biscuit as a delicacy and nourishment and directs shoppers to ask grocers.
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Triscuit
Traits of millionaires analyzed by Lombroso
Vienna May 31 The Freie Presse prints Cesare Lombroso analysis of famous millionaires including Astor Vanderbilt Morgan Hill Whitney Carnegie and Rockefeller. He notes small stature and weak offspring due to overwork and isolation while crediting quick deal sense thrift and calm for success. He cites lack of formal education and early poverty as factors shaping the mercantile temperament.
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Vienna
Freie Presse Today
Cesare Lombroso
Astor
Vanderbilt
Morgan
Hill
Whitney
Carnegie
Rockefeller
Lombrese
Lombroso
Commodore Vanderbilt
Trades Union Warned Against California Labor Scams
Massachusetts branch of the American Federation of Labor dispatches a circular warning all trades unions to avoid California wage myths. Officials contend labor bureau circulars mislead Eastern workers about scarce skilled labor and high wages, urging unions to deter members from Westward offers. The roster lists officers from Boston Hyde Park Cambridge Newton Brookline Malden Somerville and Arlington. Meetings set for first and third Sundays at Blatchford Hall Wells Memorial building.
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California
Massachusetts
American Federation of Labor
East
New England
Labor Bureau
Arlington
Woburn
Everett
John T. O'Neill
Boston
W. P. Estabrook
Hyde Park Union
James W. Mullaly
Cambridge Union
Donald J. McNeill
Newton Union
Charles Hoole
Brookline Union
George Doughty
Malden Union
Frank Butler
Somerville Union
Blatchford Hall
Wells Memorial Building
Boston Painters District Council Forms With 4000 Members
The 18 painters decorators and paper hangers unions of Boston and vicinity organized a district council under a charter from the International Brotherhood of Painters Decorators and Paper Hangers. John T. ONeill organized and installed the council numbered 25 with reps from Newton Waltham Somerville and Sign Painters Union 890. The Gilders Union may join as efforts continue.
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Boston
International Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators
John T. O'Neill
Newton
Waltham
Somerville
Union 890
Gilders’ Union of
Laundry Drivers Union Forms In Boston Area
Cornelius P. Shea and Thomas J. Minihan officiated the obligation of 107 men for the Boston and Cambridge Laundry Wagon Drivers Union 630 of the International Team Drivers Association. The charter was accepted and officers elected led by Louis Papp as president and James J. Keegan as vice president. union meets at 724 Washington Street Tuesday night.
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Cornelius P. Shea
Team Drivers’ Union
Thomas J. Minihan
Team Drivers
Boston and Cambridge Laundry Wagon Drivers’ Union
International Team Drivers’ Association
Boston Team Drivers’ Union
Boston Central Labor Union
Bartenders’ Union
Boston and
Cambridge
George Ross
W. H. Snow
John B. Fay
M. J. Walsh
P. I. McCulpher
Max Benson
J. B. Fay
Abe Papp
Joseph Curry
John Morley
W. N. Snow
Louis Papp
J. J. Keegan
Washington Street
Coal Hoisting Engineers Admit 15 to Union
The Coal Hoisting Engineers Union 74 admitted 15 new members in Boston yesterday. The meeting aimed to acquaint the engineers with the union’s purpose. Addresses were given by Denis Driscoll Frank Foster A J Tighe Wesley Goodwin Frank Monaghan H Joseph Quinn and John J Tobin.
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Boston
Denis Driscoll
Boston Central Labor Union
Frank K. Foster
A. J. Tighe
Wesley A. Goodwin
Frank Monaghan
International
H. Joseph Quinn
Central Labor Union
John J. Tobin
Grocery and Provision Clerks’ Union
Lynn Engineers' Union Names J Anthony to Post
The Lynn Engineers' Union announces J Anthony will fill a key post, marking a leadership change within the group and signaling shifts in the local labor leadership lineup.
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J. Anthony
The
Lynn Engineers’ Union
Union Officers Elected and Meeting Changes Noted
The Grocery and Provision Clerks Union 160 selects officers this Thursday and moves meetings to the first and third Thursdays from Sundays. The Housesmith and Structural Iron Workers Union 30 votes on officers tomorrow and relocates to Wells Memorial building, first and third Tuesdays. The Sheet Metal Workers Union held a meeting at 8 Bennett street to hear the master builders on the eight hour demand. a special meeting Thursday will report further stance.
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Housesmith and Structural Iron Workers’ Union 30
Blatchford Hall
Wells Memorial Building
Carroll Hall
Sheet Metal Workers’ Union
Bennett Street
Cambridge Police Chief Seeks Half Pay Retirement
Chief Lothrop J. Cloyes of the Cambridge police plans to petition the Board of Aldermen to retire on half pay rather than accept a proposed one third pay. A major shakeup is anticipated with patrolmen promoted, captains retired, and sergeants reduced as the department undergoes changes this week.
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Lothrop J. Cloyes
Cambridge Police Department
Henry J. Cunningham
Cambridge Board of Aldermen
Cloyes
Drug Clerk Charged With Selling Liquor
Joseph F. Robinson a 34 year old drug store clerk at Lowell and Causeway streets was arrested after allegedly selling liquor. He allegedly sold liquor to Patrolman Daniel F. Sullivan of Station 14 who made the arrest. Robinson lives at 263 Highland street Roxbury and is married.
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Joseph F. Robinson
Lowell and
Causeway Streets
Robinson
Daniel F. Sullivan
Station 14
Highland Street
Roxbury
Funeral for Joseph Burden Held in Lenox Church
Funeral services for Joseph Burden a wealthy New York society man who died after a surgical operation were conducted at Trinity Episcopal Church Lenox attended by many prominent New York and Boston residents. The Rev Herbert Arrowsmith officiated Interment followed at Congregational Cemetery Lenox.
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Lenox
Joseph Burden
New York Society
Trinity Episcopal Church
New York
Boston
Herbert Arrowsmith
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