Civic Federation to Probe Child Labor Abuses
About 250 attendees at the National Civic Federation meeting in New York urged forming a joint commission with leaders from the AFL and other groups to investigate child labor. Speakers relayed reports of intimidation and bans on visiting mills in the South and Mississippi.
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New York
National Civic Federation
Park Avenue Hotel
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius N.bliss
Oscar 8. Strauss
Nicholas Murray Butler
Archbishop Ireland
Bishop Potter
David R. Francis
Henry Phipps
Clarence H. Mackay
Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell
Washington Gladden
Clark Howell
John
John Golden
Textile Workers of
Fall River
American Textile Workers
South Carolina
Gompers
James Leonard
New Orleans
Mississippi
Leonard
American Federation of Labor
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
National Educational Association
American Economic Association
National Child Labor Committee
United States
Fire report corrects Union Lumber loss claim
San Francisco December 12 clarifies that the August 7 lumber district fire did not damage Union Lumber Company yards. The threat was real but no loss occurred to the Union timber company.
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Union Lumber Company
San Francisco
Union Timber Company
Brown, Utah Senator, dies after shooting in Salt Lake
Former United States Senator Arthur Brown of Utah died at Emergency hospital after a Saturday shooting by Mrs. Anna M. Bradley of Salt Lake City. He succumbed to kidney complications aggravated by the wound. Brown's son Max and daughter Alice were at his side. The body will be sent to Salt Lake City for burial amid ongoing court proceedings against Mrs. Bradley.
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Bradley
Washington
United States
Arthur Brown
Utah
Anna M. Bradley
Salt Lake City
Brown
Charles White
Max Brown
Alice Brown
Columbus, O
Adams
Great Northern Directors Approve $60 Million Stock Increase
New York Dec 13 The Great Northern Railway board authorized a stock increase of 60 million dollars, with stockholders offered par subscriptions. Existing stock totals about 150 million dollars and the new issue would raise the total to 210 million. Proceeds to fund additions shipments improvements and acquisitions as decided by directors.
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Great Northern Railway
New York
Great Northern
CURLS PROPOSITION COULD LET OKLAHOMA ENTER ANY BUSINESS
Guthrie December 13 The Curl proposal would grant Oklahoma the same rights as corporations and individuals. It argues that Kansas tried to enter the refinery business but lacked constitutional authority. If adopted the Oklahoma plan would allow the state to engage in any enterprise it desires.
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Oklahoma
Guthrie
Dec
Duel Ends in Death as Bradford Kills Himself in Oklahoma
In Bristow, Oklahoma, M. L. Bradford of Parson comes to the home of his brother in law S. L. Clemons to kill him and his wife. After exchanging shots Bradford shoots himself in the head as witnesses recount. President Jordan of the Southern Cotton Association urges planters to hold on to cotton, criticizing government crop estimates.
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Bristow, I. T
M. L Bradford
Parson, I. T
S. L. Clemons
Bradford
Bristow
Clemons
Jordan
The
Southern Cotton Association
Death of Professor St Cyr Tucker in Guthrie
Professor St Cyr Tucker, Iowa tribe member and Carlisle and Cornell graduate, died of consumption in Guthrie. He served as principal of the local colored schools and was formerly on the Langston University faculty.
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St. Cyr’ Tucker
Guthrie
St. Cyr Tucker
Iowa Tribe of Indians
Carlisle
Cornell
Langston Negro University
Col lns and Barrow Guilty in Turf Association Fraud
Found guilty in New Orleans on December 13 for using the mails to defraud. A. C. Collins and J. F. Barrow of the Cooperative Turf Association raised money nationwide under the claim of betting on inside information about New Orleans races.
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New Orleans
A. C. Collns
J. F. Barrow
Co-operative Turf Association
Nervous Breakdown Follows Trial for Mrs Birdsong
Hazelhurst Miss December 13 The defense filed a motion for a new trial for Angie Birdsong convicted of manslaughter in the Dr Thomas Butler case. Birdsong is seriously ill after a complete nervous breakdown.
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Birdsong
Hazelhurst
Miss
Aggie Birdsong
Thomas Butler
United States
McLaurin
A. Q. May
Mississippi
Angie Birdsong
Hualing
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