Betterment of the Wage Earner Now Being Urged
A 1920s discussion on industrial hygiene chronicles rising concern for indoor worker health. It notes mortality from indoor trades, the social secretary welfare worker, and the push by manufacturers, unions, civic groups, and government to improve seating, restrooms, lunchrooms, hospitals, and physicians in large factories and stores.
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Frederic J. Haskin
Great Britain
France
Germany
Department of Commerce and Labor
American Museum of Safety
Double murder mystery in Lockland fight outcome
Two Bulgarian laborers, Dobley Mlief aged 22 and Marion Satross 24, were attacked while sleeping near their home in Lockland. Ilief died from skull fractures. Satross was dying in hospital. A friend found both bodies in pools of blood. Satross whispered that two negroes attacked them. Police and physicians investigated the brutal double killing in the night.
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Dobley Mlief
Marion Satross
Lockland
Ilief
Satross
Betts Street Hospital
Alex. Saffer
Ilies
Vorhis Undertaking Establishment
Reading
Betts Street
Marshal A. P. Handley
Taft Is A Unitarian Says Cincinnati Cleric
Rev George A Thayer asserts Taft's Unitarian faith and long membership in Cincinnati First Congregational Unitarian Church. He cites Taft family ties to Unitarianism, notes taft attended the church as a youth, and mentions Taft’s wife Helen Herron Taft's Presbyterian Church connections.
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William Howard Taft
First Congregational Unitarian Church of
Cincinnati
George A. Thayer
Thayer
Oak Street
Highland Avenue
Taft
Mr. Taft
Alphonso Taft
Maria Herron
Christ Church
Fourth Street
Mr. Nelson
Episcopal Church
Will Taft
Will
Charles P. Taft
Church of the Covenant
Louise Taft
Nelson
Unitarian Church
Jesus
Riot at Gates plant leaves one dead and many injured
At the H C Frick coke plant near Masontown Pennsylvania a riot between Italian and Slav workers left one man dead and about twenty five seriously wounded. Nineteen rioters were arrested after fights outside a Slav boarding house and at the Masontown jail.
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Uniontown
Gates
H. C. Frick Coke
Masontown
Jacob Furance
Furance
Alexander Molanski
Paris Faces 24 Hour General Strike Threat
Paris awakes to a 24 hour general strike threatened for tomorrow with 100000 workers enrolled across unions including car men printers bakers and hotel staff. Police surround General Labor Federation HQ as bill posters denounce government actions and print shops brace for work stoppages.
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Paris
General’ Labor Federation
Federation of Labor
Farman Demonstrates Aeroplane Flight at Brighton Beach
Henri Farman arrived from Paris to showcase aeroplane flights under an American syndicate at Brighton Beach race track. In a 30 second flight covering about a third of a mile he displayed bird like grace to a crowd of around two thousand. The impromptu exhibition drew cheers as Farman was introduced in the announcer’s stand and praised for solving New York transportation.
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New York
Henri Farman
Paris
Brighton Beach
Farman
Darius Green
Fernie Fire Devastates Towns in Canada’s Crow's Nest Pass
Fernie B C is wiped out by bush fires spreading from Elk River area. Michell, Hosmer, Olsen and Sharwood cut off as bridges burn and rail tracks destroyed. About 100 deaths reported, 3000 refugees camp in open, flames threaten Montana within hours. Firefighters overwhelmed, coal stockpiles and mines at risk. Broad devastation noted as wind-driven blaze races across a 100 square mile area.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Fernie
B. C
Michell
Hosmer
Olsen
Sharwood
Canadian Pacific
Great Northern
Crow's Nest Pass
San Francisco
Canada
Elk River Valley
Elk River
Crow's Nest Coal Company
Folkes Woodware House
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Sparwood
Montana
Taft name story and party moves in Hot Springs report
In Hot Springs Va Taft listens to reporters and recalls being called Willie Bill and Mr Taft. story includes Yale years and a hallway chorus of Oh Willie. James T McCleary reports Minnesota Wisconsin race views while Taft’s railroad handling pleases La Follette wing. New York dispatch notes Culahan to lead Republican literary efforts under Hitchcock with Curtis as editor and Sheldon possible at HQ.
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Hot Springs
Mr. Taft
Bill
Taft
Yale
Willie
Cincinnati
Harry Taft
Harry
St. Luke’s Church
John G. Scott
James T. McCleary
Jores
Minnesota
Wisconsin
McCleary
Johnson
Hitchcock
New Jersey
Cornelius N. Bliss
National Committee
George R. Sheldon
Bureau of Republican Literary Office Closes in Washington
The Republican National and Congressional Committees Literary Bureau, run in Washington under Francis Curtis, has shut down. Furniture and documents were shipped to New York, where Curtis will relocate and oversee the campaign branch.
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Washington
Republican
National and
Congressional Committees
Francis Curtis
New York
Curtis
Marines Fear Getting Rabies After Panama Bite
A group of twelve U S Marines arrived in New York from the Isthmus of Panama to receive Pasteur treatment after being bitten by a rabid collie that had infected Major G Russell and eleven privates. The dog, left by tourists at Colon, was shot after the attack on July 21. All men are well with no rabies symptoms and proceed to Washington for preventive care.
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New York
Washington
United States Marine Corps
Panama
Finance
Marine Corps
G. Russell
Colon, Sr
Russell
Naval Medical School
Venezuela Forts Readied Amid Navy Standoff at Willemstad
Dutch cruiser Gelderland arrives from Laguira Venezuela and its commander reports landing an officer ashore. He says communications with the shore were refused and the German Minister in Caracas is in charge of Dutch interests. Venezuela readies forts for defense amid tensions.
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Willemstad
Curacao
Gelderland
Laguira
Venezuela
Caracas
Advocnitte
Haldana
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