Efforts in Many Quarters to Settle Strike and Coal Substitutes
The article outlines household strategies during the anthracite strike, promoting soft coal and coal oil as cheaper alternatives. It covers fuel options, stove operation differences, chimney safety, and the economic squeeze on households, plus a detailed address by Rev. Daniel Evans on mine conditions, wages, and the strike's broader social impact.
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Daniel Evans
Scientific American
North Cambridge
Pilgrim Hall
Stone
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
Committee On Resolutions
Evans
Lackawanna Region
Utah
United States Industrial Commission
United States Supreme Court
United Mine Workers’ Union
Mandamus Remedy for Coal Miners Urged by Colonel Fisher
Colonel Horace N. Fisher argues that a mandamus writ by the Attorney General to compel anthracite operators to mine transport and distribute coal is the public’s only remedy in the coal strike. He warns against receivership or eminent domain and says courts should settle the dispute, as miners lack corporate standing and operators act as trustees for shareholders and the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Mitchell
United States Industrial Commission
Mitchell
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Horace N. Fisher
Attorney-General
United States
Anthracite Trust
Samuel L. Powers
Newton
Sunday Post
Chillan
Boston
General Grant
Fisher
Colonel Fisher
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Debious
Massachusetts
Treasury Orders Coal Preferential Through Customs
The Treasury Department directed collectors of principal ports to give coal priority in imports and prompt delivery. It instructed officers to favor coal consignments over other goods and to resolve any doubts in favor of coal importers. The notice was issued from Washington on October 6.
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Treasury Department
Washington
United States
Aldermen Seek Arbitration in Coal Strike Resolutions
Boston Aldermen approved unanimously a pair of resolutions urged by Alderman Kelly calling on coal operators to accept arbitration. The measures urge immediate settlement of Pennsylvania coal troubles and resumption of production for the city’s needs, endorsing Mayor and press efforts to reach a speedy, satisfactory solution.
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Kelly
Board of Aldermen
Pennsylvania
Board of al
Dermen
Boston
Woman Stabbed by Hat Pin Sparks Street Incident
Paul Scott of 81 West Concord Street narrowly avoided losing an eye when a young woman, in a quarrel with her companion, stabbed him with a hat pin near Beach Street and the L station. Scott intervened to protect the woman and was treated at the Emergency Hospital after the attack.
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Scott
Paul Scott
West Concord Street
Beach Street
L Station
Odell orders Second Regiment to guard Hudson Valley line
Albany Oct 6 Governor Odell issued an order directing the entire Second Regiment comprising companies from Troy to Plattsburg to be on duty to protect the property of the Hudson Valley Railroad Company amid a strike that has been ongoing for weeks.
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Albany
N. Y
Odell
Troy
Plattsburg
Hudson Valley Railroad Company
Upen
Five Men Sought in Cambridge Slugger Death Case
Cambridge police seek five young men to shed light on the death of Miss Agnes McPhee killed by a alleged slugger. Autopsy shows extensive skull fractures from a blunt instrument. Miss McPhee’s body to East Boston for funeral at her aunt’s home. police await officer identification in the slaying case.
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Cambridge
Agnes McPhee
Jack the Slugger
Snow
Miss McPhee
Stephen V. McNeil
Maverick Street
Boston
McNamee
Cloyes
Harbor Yields Fifth Body in Ten Days
The Watchman crew found an unidentified man in the harbor near Central wharf. The 45 year old, 5 foot 8, 200 pound man with a sandy mustache wore a black sack coat, black trousers and a black outing shirt. No foul play signs were seen and the body was sent to North Grove street morgue for identification.
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Central Wharf
Iris
North Grove Street
Colored Woman Fights Officer in Street Disturbance
Letty Lee, 24, shouted insults at residents on Village Street. Patrolman Frazier, missing helmet, confronted her inside a house and she clawed his face and kicked him, necessitating his use of force to detain her at Station 5.
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Letty Lee
Village Street
Frazier
Division
Letty
Lee
Jamaica Plain Man Stabbed in Back in Family Quarrel
A 29 year old Jamaica Plain man, Philip Nickerson, was stabbed in the back at his home on St. Mark's Street by William Mundo, 34, of Howard Avenue. Dr. Woodward treated the wound, deemed not serious, and police seek Mundo.
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Philip Nickerson
St. Mark's Street
Jamaica Plain
Nickerson
William Mundo
Howard Avenue
Woodward
Mundo
Coal strike debate heats up in Berlin press
Berlin dispatch reports growing US coal strike interest. Newspapers take sides with miners and condemn operators for their stance. Frankfort Zeitung mocks operators calling their actions lunacy of fancied greatness and warns of a power holding 70 million people in anxiety.
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Berlin
United States
Frankfort Zeitung
Europe
Unknown woman injured after fall at 48 North Market Street
An elderly woman with a fractured shoulder and scalp laceration arrived at City Hospital after falling down basement stairs at 48 North Market Street yesterday. She is plainly dressed and unable to provide identifying details. She remained unable to identify herself as of late.
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City Hospital
North Market Street
Opinions on How to Settle the Coal Strike
Prominent figures including Cardinal Gibbons Senator Allison Bishop Spaulding Senator Kearns Senator Tillman Mayor Maybury Governor Savage Mayor Bookwalter Comptroller Grout Regent Lanfitt Knights Templars John Gerow ex governor Heard Mayor Jones Chandler and Jacob Schmidt discuss arbitration eminent domain troop use and public sentiment as potential paths to end the anthracite strike with varied views from urging federal action to local government control and mass meetings.
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Cardinal Gibbons
Congress
Chandler
New Hampshire
Dowd Denies Interview Over Street Department Probe
The Post reported Alderman Dowd considered pushing an investigation into street department hiring and firing. Dowd says he gave no afternoon interview. the story is disputed by him but verified by others. The civil service board awaits the list of 129 discharged workers as new details of illicit employment emerge.
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Post
Thomas H. Dowd
Board of Aldermen
Alderman Dowd
Hickory Club
Roxbury
Dowd
Doyle
City Hall
State House
Civil Service Commissioners
DETERMINED TO FIGHT THE UNION IN TENNESSEE COAL
New York Oct 6 Directors of the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Company endorsed officers for refusing to yield to striking Alabama miners. President Bacon said the board supports the officers and that the strike stems from internal union differences, not wages or conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Alabama
Cr. H. Bacon
Julia O'Brien Found After Disappearance in Mattapan
Julia O'Brien who vanished from her home at 7 Maple Street on Sunday night was located yesterday in Mattapan. The rescue concludes a troubling missing person case with O'Brien safely returned to her family.
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Julia O’brien
Maple Street
Mattapan
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