Ban on Miners Check-off Enjoined in West Virginia Strike
Federal Judge A B Anderson in Indianapolis on October 31 barred the collection of United Mine Workers dues via the check-off system nationwide. The order also forbids union officials and members from urging unionization of the Williamson coal field in West Virginia, where a year-long strike has featured violence. The temporary ban remains in effect until further court action.
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Indianapolis
Ind
United Mine Workers of America
A. B. Anderson
Eorm Seaking
Williamson
West Virginia
War Between Classes Predicted by Mr. Zero
Urban Ledoux known as Mr. Zero warned at the Harvard Undergraduate Liberal Club that a vast class war will erupt as governments fall. He boasted of plans in Washington over the next three months and claimed to wield Dante’s Hell as a metaphor for his campaign, promising to sing from the Capitol steps with love and meekness.
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Urban Ledoux
Mr. Zero
Harvard Ja
Liberal Club
Boston Common
Washington
Capitol
White House
Woodfill Named by Pershing for Armistice Day Honor
General Pershing examined war records and designated Sergeant Samuel Woodfill as the American infantryman most worthy to represent the infantry at Armistice Day ceremonies for America's unknown soldier.
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Washington
Pershing
Samuel Woodfill
America
Sergeant Woodfill Stationed at Belleview Ind Home in Records
Sergeant Woodfill, listed with a Belleview Indiana home in army records, is presently stationed at a location not specified in the excerpt. The report notes his prior residence but stops before detailing current assignment.
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Woodfill
Belleview, Ind
Heroic War Actions of Woodfill York and Whittlesey Endure
A War Department report praises Lieutenant Samuel Woodfill, Sergeant Alvin C. York, and Major Charles S. Whittlesey for outstanding deeds in France during the Meuse Argonne offensive on October 12, 1918. Woodfill led assaults on machine gun nests near Cunel, York captured 182 Germans, and Whittlesey’s battalion held out after being cut off, with further details in Pershing’s forthcoming final report.
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Fort Thomas
Washington
War Department
Weeks
France
Woodfill
Pershing
Wth
Alvin C. York
Tennessee Mountains
Charles S. Whittlesey
Samuel Woodfill
Cunel
Eighty-Second Division
Argonne
Heroic Officer Woodfill Receives Multinational Honors
Sergeant Woodfill earned the Congressional Medal and was promoted to captain after courageous actions under heavy shell and machine gun fire. He also received the Legion of Honor with cavalier rank, Croix de Guerre with palm from France, and the Order of Prince Danilo I Fifth Class from Montenegro. He has served twenty years in the army, beginning as a noncommissioned officer and returning to the regular army as an enlisted man after the armistice.
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Woodfill
Army
Cunel
France
Prince Danill I
Montenegro
United States
Factory Employees Burned by X-Ray
Between 40 and 50 workers at the Strathmore Paper Company Mittineague suffered X-ray burns during a factory health screening. Dr. H W Van Allen says the X-ray rays used to examine teeth were handled by a New York technician lacking sufficient experience, causing injuries.
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Springfield
Strathmore Paper Company
Mittineague
H. W. van Allen
New York
Robbers Attack Storekeeper in Dorchester Holdup
Shumaronian faced three attackers who beat him and fled with no cash left in his inner pocket. A pursuing officer followed a fleeing youth while police detained three youths nearby as suspicious. A dented 38 caliber cartridge indicated a gun used as a club. victim Shumavonian, 16 years at the location, lay hospitalized with poor prospects.
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Mont-gomery
Shumaronian
Gilbert Jones
East Dedham Street
Murray Munroe
Tilton
Ladderman Jones
Shamaronian
Jones
Harrison Avenue
City Hospital
Fie
Yarras Brothers
Shumavonian
Iiis
Geneva Avenue
Dorchester
Stealthy Steve in City Hall Scandal Exposed
A local columnist claims an exclusive on a scandal tying Newton Newkirk's bear Stealthy Steve to alleged misdeeds at City Hall and Franklin Park. The piece mocks gentility and details supposed zoo incidents to question the bear's character and the mayoral briefing.
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Steve
Post
City Hall
Steves
Mr. Newkirk
Morse
Dan Harkins
Zoo
Franklin Park
Explaining a Cat Tale in City Hall Circles
A columnist mocks a critic and his cat Tobiqua, suggesting the cat is mischievous and fleas collected in the mayor’s office. The speaker jokes about access to the mayor, then teases a future piece about Newt and Tobiqua’s whereabouts during a family evening.
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Newkirk
Hindy
Mr. Newkirk
Newt
Tobiqua
Newton Newkirk
Boy Hit by Auto in Halloween Games
Oct 31 in Holbrook a 10 year old boy Leo Walsh of South Franklin street was struck while playing in the road near his home. He was taken to Brockton hospital with cuts to the legs and a concussion. The car was driven by James Clark of Abington.
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Holbrook
Leo Walsh
South Franklin Street
Brockton Hospital
James Clark
Abington
Milk strike hits New York dairy distributors
In Greater New York employees of milk distributing firms voted to strike at midnight after failed talks. The walkout began after noon, causing thousands of quarts of milk and cream to pile up at railroad terminals in New York and northern New Jersey.
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New York
Greater
Madison Square Garden
New Jersey
While the Biscuits Baked by Holman Day
The Boston Sunday Post Magazine will feature Holman Day's humorous story While the Biscuits Baked in its next issue. Readers anticipate light comedy and regional flavor from Day.
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Holman Day
Boston Sunday Post
Capital and Services Offered by College Graduate
A college graduate now connected seven years with wholesale groceries and food products. The note appears in a single line and mentions R 95 and an implied lost item.
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Woodefill
Rota Evi i Rr
Women’s New
Windsor
Washington St
Madras
A Maker’s
Goodyear
BY Hindy
New Brunswick
Mr.Newkirk
Keeper
Lamb
TMP
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Poe
Ermal
Hamburg
Retaive
Vermont
Houghton & E. Dorr & Co., Inc
Arthur
Canal Street
North Station
Quincy
Johnson Hancock & Mapl
Dutton’s
REN Bros. E Sts
North & Union Sts
Dorchi Codman Square
Dorcester High School
Houghton & Dutton
Park &T
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Ae Lee
Rosemade Waist CO
N. Y. City
Boston
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