Hiring Women Workers in Railroads Faces Caution
The Railway Age Gazette urges a cautious approach to employing women across railroads, warning that ad hoc hiring is a costly fad. It notes some roles suit women while others do not, and stresses segregated facilities, dedicated rest rooms, first aid, and forewomen in women’s groups to ensure efficiency and safety.
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Railway Age Gazette
The
Gazette
Cheyenne
the Gazette
New York Railroad Club
Austrians Cannot Hold Out Through Winter Claim
From Geneva a dispatch by Associated Press says the Austrian empress has written a long memorandum to the German emperor about the coming fourth winter of the campaign. The document is described as striking and revealing many previously hidden facts from Vienna officials and diplomats.
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Geneva
I Satus
Vienna
Teuton Envoy 13 Saved From Mob
Crowds gathered along Avenidas Mayo and Florida in Buenos Aires to demand a rupture with Germany. Police under President Irigoyen's orders dispersed the mob with sabers, injuring many citizens and some officers. Berlin reports recall of Argentina's naval attaché Captain Celery, tied to the Swedish affair.
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Avenidas Mayo
Florida
Germany
Irigoyen
Amsterdam
Berlin
Celery
Soldiers Insurance Bill Passes House Unanimously
Washington Sept 12 The administration soldiers and sailors insurance bill passed the house by 19 to 0 after amendments to equalize allowances for dependents of enlisted men and officers. Representatives Platt of New York and Hersey of Maine changed their votes to aye amid thunderous applause.
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Washington, D. C
Administration
Soldiers’ and Sailors
House
Platt
New York
Hersey
Maine
Beans This Year Rank With Big Crops Across States
Forecasts by the department of agriculture place beans as a major crop in Michigan California New York Colorado and New Mexico with total production of about 19 696 000 bushels versus 8 846 000 last year and 10 221 900 in 1915 Michigan leads at 7 230 000 followed by California New York Colorado and New Mexico. Three million acres of grass land in upper Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan are offered free to prospective sheep grazers by the Great Lakes wool convention development association to boost wool production as western ranges shrink under new homestead limits. The offer aims to shift flocks to the middle west.
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Washington, D. C
Michigan
California
New York
Colorado
New Mexico
Department of Agriculture
Chicago
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Sesson
Great Lakes
Development Association of the
Three States
National Sheep and Wool Bureau
Middle West
Nurses Wounded in German Air Raid at Base Hospital No 5
Washington reports Base Hospital No 5 personnel wounded in a German air raid on September 4. Lieut. William T. Fitzsimmons and two privates were killed. Nurse Eva Parmalee among the wounded. D W Gill moved his office to 1624 Capitol Avenue.
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Washington
War Department
Base Hospital No. 5
William T. Fitzsimmons
Eva Parmalee
D. W. Gill
Capitol Avenue
Local Briefs From Cheyenne and Douglas
Local notes report Kepler in Union Pacific hospital with a nervous breakdown where he serves as baggage master. Yeager leaves Cheyenne for Columbia University in New York. Hobbs Buckfeldt offers furniture dent work opposite Plains hotel. Chief of Police C F Bmberg travels to Douglas for the state fair. James H. Walton attends the fair in Douglas. W R Aryan from Chicago visits Cheyenne for several days. Otto Henke of Sibylle Wyoming is also in Cheyenne briefly. The Sherman Co offers prompt taxi service with One-One dispatch and 9 for ta prices. courteous drivers.
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Kepler
Union Pacific
Castro Reaches U. S. After Brief Ellis Island Detention
Gen Ci priano Castro former president of Venezuela arrived in New York from Mexico after two prior visits and a brief detention at Ellis Island before landing.
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New York
Cipriano Castro
Venezuela
United States
Ellis Island
Mexico
Heaton of Denver Visits New Oil Company
David Heaton of Denver, president of the Heaton Oil and Refining Company, met in the city to discuss the newly organized firm. The company owns over 5000 acres across Big Muddy Salt Creek Bonanza Wind River Toltec and Oklahoma lands and plans development as finances allow.
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David Heaton
Denver
Heaton of and Refining Company
Cent
Big Muddy
Salt Creek
Bonanza
Wind River
John W. Gillespie
R. E. Barker
William EF. McClelland
Louis McHenry
H. C. van Norman
James S. Woodruff
Government Lets Contracts For Shipyards And Steel Vessels
Contracts for the construction of government owned ship building yards at Hog Island Pennsylvania and for the fabrication of fifty steel merchant vessels were awarded by the Emergency Fleet Corporation to the American International Corporation. These are the first signed for three new plants to yield a large number of fabricated ships with the first vessel due for completion in ten or eleven months.
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Washington, D. C
Hogg Island
Emergency Fleet Corporation
American International Corporation
Union Recognition Won by Strikers
Kansas City report says packing house workers ended a strike by accepting proposals from mediator Patrick Gill. Workers return to duty tomorrow with union recognition, a 2.5 cent wage increase, reinstatement of strikers, central hiring bureau, appeal rights to the superintendent, and grievance committee access.
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Kansas City
Packing House
Patrick C. Gill
Tomorow
American Federation Labor
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Rmirlroad
Teuton Hospital
Apital Coal Company
Holliday
Sherman Co
Yeager
Columbia
Lowell Yearer
Cheyene
Columbia University
Hobbs & Buckfeldt
Plains Hotel
Douglas
C. F. Bbmberg
Elks
Walton
James H. Walton
W. RR
Otto Henke
Sibylle
Wyo
Castro
U. S
Wilson
Proudfit-Ormsby
Fred J. Green
Chas. C. Green
Market Street
Colo
Champa
Oklahoma
Wyoming
the Heaton
MO. W. Gillespie
BE. Barker
Sec’s
WM. E. McCclelland
H.C. van Norman
Lewis M. McHenry
Commonwealth Building
Denver, Colo
Heaton and Refining CO
the Heaton Oil and Refining Company
Commonwealth Bidg
Fining Company
Heaton OL Andre
Aciess
Coal Creek
Salt Creek District
Big Hollow
Hmurcis
Ponanza
Runela
Thermopolis
Wimd River
Wind River, Co-Operative and
Western Exploration Properties
Toltec
Ramsey District
E. L. Scholtz
William Lampton
D. & R. Railroad
MAX Neusteter Neusteter Company
John F. W. B. Burlington Railroad
C. H. Toncray
Ralph W. Smith Insurance Agency
Samuel Schlessinge Standard Furniture Co
George R. Curzon
M. D. Barnett Co
Henry Perini
Perini
Bres
Elroy N. Clark
D. & R. G. Railroad
NAT Than Striker Striker Dry Goods Co
A. E. Brendler
Cheyenne Jeweler
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