Labor Day Rally Features Bryan Before 40 000 Chicago Laborers
Chicago observes Labor Day with a massive parade and Bryan as star speaker. The crowd swells past 40,000 with 15,000 at Sharp Shooters Park where Bryan addresses workers amid loud cries of Hanna. Bryan defends labor rights and asserts workers’ role in nation building.
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Chicago
William J. Bryan
Lake Front
Sharp Shooters’ Park
Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Edward T. Carroll
Building Trades Councils
J. G. McKinley
Carpenters’ District Council
J. J. Ryan
Carroll
Willie
Building and Trades’ Council
Jones Elected Governor by Large 1900 Majority Report
Official returns show Daniel W. Jones winning the Arkansas governor race with substantial majorities across multiple counties including Miller Phillips Woodruff Franklin Lafayette and Sharp. Populists and Prohibitionists show decline while licensing saloons emerges as a central issue amid a quiet statewide vote.
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Little Rock
Ark
Daniel W. Jones
Miller
Texarkana
Phillips
Helena
Woodruff
Franklin
Lafayette
Sharp
Jones
Clinton
Labor and middle class praised in Arkansas governor bid speech
Colonel Daniel W. Jones, elected Arkansas governor by about a 60 000 plurality, extolled workers who transform natural resources into wealth. He cited Lincoln and Solomon to favor labor over capital, warned against extremes of wealth and poverty, and praised the middle class as the nation’s bulwark while urging care for the common people Jesus praised.
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Daniel W. Jones
Arkansas
Carlisle
Lincoln
Solomon
Abraham Lincoln
Bryan
Firemen's Field Day Results at Kingston
At Kingston's first firemen field day on September 7 Hose 8 won the 200 feet hose laying in 1 minute. Hose 3 captured the 54 second hose laying with a Y connection. Hose 1 finished the event in 1 minute 35 seconds. In baseball Hose 1 defeated Hose 2 by scores of 15 to 8.
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Press Cyclin Club
Tom Butler
Sanger
Tire and Wheel
Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company
Palmer Tire Company
Kiser
Palmer Company
E. C. Stearns Company
Syracuse
Charles Murphy
Walsh
Gallahan
Charlie Murphy
Callahan
Butler- Murphy
Hutchins
Crooks
Coleman
Berle
Bald
Fred Schrien
Fred Hoyt
Gardiner
Reynolds
Kimball
Butler
Murphy
Zeigler
Jenny
Jennie
Schrien
Quilla Rich
Warren Reynolds
Harl Kiser
E Blake
Keene
New England
F. A. Gately
Springfield
Rhodes
Tigers
Earl Kiser
Watson Coleman
Porter
Harvey Hutchins
Frank Jenny
Will R. Pittman
New York State Racing Board
America
Brockton
Mr. Pittman
Boston
Schrier
Seratch
Cooke
Luis
Fuller
Arnold
Kingston
10000 Union Men Parade With Bands Through Boston
Labor celebrated with a citywide parade led by Chief Marshal John Hurley. About 10 000 workers from forty organizations and forty bands marched from Copley Square to the State House, drawing cheers from crowds along Beacon Street and the Common. The event lasted over an hour and a half, with diverse trades in simple uniforms and banners reflecting civic pride.
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John Hurley
Wolcott
City Hall
State House
Copley Square
Corege
School Street
Beacon Street
First Division Leads Parade of Union Members and Guests
Sergeant Granville B. Stone led eleven mounted policemen followed by Chief Marshal John Hurley and a large staff of labor unions and assemblies. The procession featured Longshoremen, Knights of Labor locals, and city employees with bands, banners, and a lemonade wagon, plus invited guests and a festive crowd along Huntington Avenue.
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Granville B. Stone
John Hurley
Fred J. Kneeland
Building Trades Council
Thomas J. Murphy
Central Labor Union
Daniel Leonard
Ben Franklin Assembly
James J. Donnelly
Noddle Island Assembly
John Lowney
O’connell Assembly
John J. Collins
Sheet and Plate Glaziers’ Union
R. J. Braley
Cornice Workers’ Union
E. A. McDonnell
Woodworkers’ Union
Patrick J. Haley
Roofers’ Union
Michael F. Athridge
Brewery Workmen’s Union
Lynn Brass Band
J. H. Mellen
J. J. Crowley
J. A. Galvin
Ce Ee
Charles H. Lennon
P. D. M. W. James Maguire
J. E. Ellsworth
District Teeurge Board
Thomas Sutton
T. Regan
District Assembly
Knights of Labor
Longshoremen’s Assembly
City Ployees
Assembly 3221
Marlboro
Thomas J. Canning
Local Assembly
John de Lacy
John Reynolds
M. C. O'Hare
Forrest
A. G. Norander
A. A. Duneliff
Dennis Donovan
Noddle Island
James Young
Huntington Avenues
Waltham Cadet Band
Assembly
Marshall J. Stevens
Railroad Men’s Assembly
William Wales
Crescent Beach
Fife and Drum Corps
Newtonville
Bernard Johnson
B. Flaherty
Cambridge Military Band
Patrick O’shea
M. J. Murray
City Sanitary Department
Newnes
Building Trades Lead Parade On Boylston Street
The second division of the parade, the building trades unions, formed on Boylston street with Marshal Ryan at the corner of Boylston and Dartmouth streets. At 10 15 it moved, Ryan and staff leading into Copsey square. Twenty two delegates from the Building Trades Council followed under George B. Gunther, with union badges and canes, plus 160 Hoisting and Portable Engineers from Boston and vicinity.
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Building Trades Unions
Boylston Street
Marshal Ryan
Boylston and
Dartmouth Streets
Dartmouth Street
Copsey Square
Building Trades Council
Uner
George B. Gunther
Union
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Boston Post Chapel
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