Progress in Typographical Union Wage Report Shows Increases
The International Typographical Union releases a wage scale report under John W. Hays noting about 45,000 members, roughly half, gained raises since March 1, 1912 totaling $2,502,351.44 yearly. It details machine usage, hours, aging pensions, and state by state figures, with 84 percent of office workers in unions.
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International Typographical Union
John W. Hays
Unnion
Indianapolis
American Trade
International Union
Hiaod
Ace OT
Sowspay
Ther Union
Hays
Yes in America A note on habitual affirmative usage
A compact excerpt discusses how yes functions as a distinctly American book word with scattered use in everyday speech. It traces forms like yes sir and yex sirree across regions, highlighting variations and possible remnants of old pronouns, as analyzed by Richard T. Holbrook in the North American Review.
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United States
Seba
New England
Richard T. Holbrook
North American Review
Simple Home Tests For Detecting Water Purity
Guidance from the New York Sun describes two quick tests to gauge drinking water safety. The first uses sugar to check clarity after overnight settling, indicating purity if clear. The second uses permanganate of potash. a rosy color after an hour means safe water, while a brown tint signals impurity even if boiling may reduce harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Self as cause and future power in daily choice
Elizabeth Towne writes that you are both the effect of a past and the cause of your future. Each day, you must choose to treat your present self as a force for growth, acting with intent to make your future self greater and more powerful for good.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Towne
Tea Remarks and Airedale Pup Bargain Tales
A professor rebukes tardy students noting English class tone. A student answers softly about tea with lemon. Fred Kelly negotiates for an Airedale pup with a street dealer who warns of a price rise to five dollars by afternoon due to attachment.
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Charles T. Copeland
Professor Copeland
Miss Brown
Lippincott
Fred Kelly
Kelly
Saturday Evening Post
Proverb Exchange on Early Marriage
A witty exchange weighs timing in life choices. He asks if she believes in early marriage. she concedes belief once, but now prefers the saying better late than never for marriage as well as other things. The remarks reflect caution and pragmatism in life decisions.
Unfamiliar Faces in Early New York Portraits
A City Club search for a Thomas Willett portrait reveals widespread blanks in authentic likenesses of colonial and revolutionary figures. The article lists governors, printers, soldiers, and officers with no true portraits, noting notable omissions from Stuyvesant to Washington family ancestors, and highlights Samuel Fraunces and Betsy Ross among sought-after but missing images.
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Thomas Willett
New York
City Club
Peter Stuyvesant
Peter Minuet
William Kieft
Wouter van Twiller
William Bradford
New York Gazette
Bradford
Philadelphia
Cotton Exchange
Hanover Squire
Nathan Hale
MacMonnies, Partridge
Ethan Allen
Nicholas Herkimer
Bunker Bill
Richard Gridley
William Ledyard
New London
Ledyard
Thomas Conway
Washington
Seth Warner
Tleon de Togu
Crown Point
Batte
Bennington
Seth Pomeroy
Massachusetts
Lemuel Holden Parsons
Andre and Wis
Northwest Territory
John Morton
Pennsylvania
John Gart
New Jersey
Hart
Independence Ball
George Washington
Augustine Washington
Colonel Ball
Mary Washington
John Dandridge
Martha Washington
Samuel Fraunces
Frances
Sons of the Revoluion
Lower Broad Street
Pearl Street
William Cunningham
City Halls
Betsy Ross
Miles Standish
Mississippi
Christopher Marlowe
Richard Savage
Marquis Duquesne
Fort Duquesne
Pittsburgh
George Clinton
Henry Clinton
John Henry Cruger
Oliver de Lancey
William Tryon
John Forbes
Baron Dieskau
Robert Howe
Bourrienne
Napoleon
New York Times
Cord Bedstead Recall Shows Tough Bed Wrench Feat
An old timer recalls the cord bedstead and bed wrench, describing a laborious assembly at the fireplace and the sweaty, noisy process that tested patience. The tale recalls posts, holes, screws, and the feathered bed, contrasting it with modern springs and mattresses.
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Daddy
Big Brother Pil
Mai
New York Sun
Prisoners Hunger Strikes Recurring Through History
Evelyn's diary from July 1656 notes Quakers in prison with one lasting twenty days before dying on the tenth when unable to eat. The London Chronicle comments on nobility and fading family portraits over time.
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Evelyn
Pel
London
Trade unionism as a mass empowerment philosophy
A fragment discusses trade unionism as the practical means to reach and educate workers. It argues unions protect the average person from being overwhelmed by capital and privilege, elevating labor across the industrial structure and opposing the idea of rising to a few top earners.
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Tulilious
Immigration Restriction League Replies to Dr Eliot
In response to Dr Eliot of Harvard, the Immigration Restriction League argues that wedding tests and limits on immigration would not ruin labor supply. It contends restriction could hinder material development, but America should avoid depleting lands and resources by boosting skilled wages and aiming for higher overall intelligence.
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Immigration Restriction League
Eliot
Harvard
Naonal Liberalmieration League
Tammigrition Restriction League
Billut Sys
Iso
Ife
Gar
Wissen
Gorrey
Unions Amalgamate Under AFL Policy
The American Federation of Labor under President Gompers moves to amalgamate allied unions in Chicago with the Associated Cajun of Steam Shovelmen and the International Brotherhood of Steam Shovelmen and Lipedge men. A committee led by Gompers and ex-Vice President Julian Mitchell drafts the agreement and a constitutional amendment for joint member ratification, expected to pass nearly unanimously.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Wishel
Chicago
Guuper
Julin Mitchell
Street Car Strike Prohibited by Federal Judge Action
Federal Judge Baker in Indianapolis issued an order prohibiting Terre Haute street car union members from striking or interfering with car operation. The measure also bars union meetings aimed at pressuring operations by Terre Haute, Tulinepolis and Eastern Traction Company.
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ALE
Ps Essasettt
Cas Met
Terre Haute
Interforkis
Terre Thaute
Tulinnepolis
Eastern Traction Company
Dadge Baker
Indianapolis
Convict Labor Bill Passes House By Wide Margin
The Booker Hughes convict labor bill cleared the House 502 to 3, with bipartisan committee support. It requires goods moved across state lines to fall under per state convict labor laws, prompting expectations the Senate will act similarly. A separate Labor Safety bill, redefining the commissioner role and funding, passed unanimously to establish a museum of safety devices and study modern industrial disaster prevention.
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House of Representatives
Booker Hughes
House Committee On Labor
Senate
Labor Bureau of Safety
Bureau of Labor Safety
Department of Labor
Commissioner of Labor Safety
Aid For Strikers Tags Raise Funds For Unemployed Shoemakers
Several clr strikers in Milwaukee tagged residents to raise funds for shoe factory workers out of work. Reported receiving as high as two dollars per tag.
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Clr
Supreme Court to hear ten hour labor law appeal
Attorney General Boynton and ex-Attorney General Swift will argue the constitutionality of the ten hour labor rule for women before the U S Supreme Court. The appeal challenges the act’s notice requirement as arbitrary after the state supreme court upheld the statute. Richard G Riley, a mill foreman, was convicted for allowing a woman to work outside posted hours. Also noted is the Union Labor Hospital in San Francisco taking over Me Nott Hospital for ten years at $105 rent. Unions push for women's suffrage as Massachusetts lawmakers hear testimony.
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Thomas J. Boynton
James M. Swift
Massachusetts
United States Supreme Court
State Supreme Court
Richard G. Riley
Mall River
Hospital For
Union Labor
San Francisco
United States
Union Labor Hospital and ‘Training School Association
Me Nott Hospite
Notes of Labor and Union Activity Across Industries
The report notes papermakers paying a $2700 annual president salary in the International union, projected June employment gains in St Paul, a 10000 member International Fur Workers union founded in 1912, Wyoming mine unions building a $10.40 labor temple, 400000 clothing workers nationwide with 140000 organized, Vermont unions drafting a compensation bill for the state legislature, and a court ruling limiting New York employers from evading worker protections.
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International Union
Feoi
St. Paul
International Association of Fur Workers
Menarch
Carneyville
Wyo
United States
Vermont
New York
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