Strike on Boston Street Car Lines Imminent
Boston Mass August 24 Strike on the Bay State street car system looms, threatening up to five hundred thousand riders and five thousand workers’ jobs. Public Trustees and union leaders remain firm, with strike vote postponed to tomorrow evening. No compromise in sight as wage demands exceed War Labor Board concessions. General Pershing touring Italy remarks on street names.
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Boston
Mass
Bay State
Arkera
War Labor Board
Fbaston Jleivated
Lincoln Lincoln: Hungarian exile and notorious forger deported
The Hungarian Jew Ignatius Trebitsch Lincoln, famed for forgery and espionage in England and America, has been deported to Hungary after serving time in Brixton and Old Bailey. His escape and recapture, wartime spy exploits, and final dispatch to his homeland are recounted.
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London
Lfe
Vtrebitsch
Lincoln
Brooklyn
Hungary
Danube
Eingland
America
Brixton
Fentonville
England
War Office
Holland
Vingland
Old Bailey
New York
Ignatius ‘Timoathy Trebitsch
Broadway
Hoffbrau
Neil Chalmers
Ellis Perkins
Department of
Tvem
Several Men Assault Man Outside Saloon
Henry Brown of 270 Olive Street was attacked near Ghiota's saloon on North Washington avenue after making slurring remarks about the service. He was taken to St. Vincent's with a possible skull fracture and a severely lacerated right eye. Police had not arrested anyone by last night.
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Henry Brown
Olive Street
Washington Avenue
Brown
St. Vincent's Hospital
Ghiota
North
Paris landlords push rents amid stalemate with tenants
In Paris on August 4, landlords push to double or triple rents while tenants cannot find vacant apartments. Many tenants refuse to move as courts limit expulsion writs. About fifty thousand notices to vacate were issued in the second quarter, prompting a two year extension to verbal wartime leases.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Shipping facilities to South America must be increased
San Francisco August 24 Shipping facilities connecting the Pacific Coast with western ports of Central and South America must be increased materially to maintain trade supremacy, says Benno Schoen Latin American representative of the American Finance and Commerce Company European nations like Great Britain are entering the field with strong competition. He says the western coast market belongs to those doing business through San Francisco and calls for immediate tonnage to meet demand. Several district lines between Japanese and South American ports have been established. A movement to secure more ships through the Federal Shipping Boards is urged by Schoen.
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San Francisco
Thly Cly
Central
South America
Pucilc
Benno Schoen
Mnance and Commerce Company
Schoch
Italin
Mr. Schoch
Federal Shipping Boards
Sehoch
Bryan to tour England in prohibition campaign
London August 24. A Bratly Mall Interviewer quotes William E. Johnson that William J. Bryan intends to visit Wogland this autumn for a whirlwind platform and car-end speaking tour in the prohibition campaign. If true, he would join four other American figures supporting ec-totalism and may abandon bids for the 1920 presidency. Meanwhile, press reports note rumors of a Bryan presidential run. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 4. Despite a composite strike, newspapers resume work employing outsiders.
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London
Mails
Bryan
United States
Ryan
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John A. Jaynes
Syracuse
N. Y
Medford
Philipines
W. A. Varney
Lynn
St. Vincent's
Bigalin
Herr Oeser
Prussia
Bengue
Leeming & Co
Bridgeport
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Hartford, Conn
S. A
Benno Schoch
Great Britain
Meat Department
Sawyer’s
Public Market
State and Bank Sts
Main Street
Sound Investments
National
Conn. Office & Library Supply Co
Chamberlin & Shropshire
Frank H. Fargo
Stocicalotm
Main ST
Elm ST
Meigs & Co
Dobbs
Specitus
Crofut & Knapp
Knapp Felts
Peiss & UP Clothes
Fairfield Ave
Mhcerdeiey
Wood
J. M. Cowperthwait
Buckingham Ave
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Shore
Buty
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