Mass meeting leads Cincinnati garment cutters to strike
Local 8,000 cutters and tailors from Cincinnati and area vote to strike after employers reject a fifty-one to fifty-four hour offer. Union leaders push for a nationwide stoppage. National Organizer Schwarz and Riesenberger oversee talks at Central Turner Hall. many firms face work stoppage while nonunion shops seek to limit impact.
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Cincinnati
Turner Halls
Turner Hall
Schwarz
Clerk Wins Bet by Eating Sixty One Eggs
Frank Blake, a railway office clerk in Catro ML, won a $25 bet by eating sixty-one eggs. The eggs were prepared scrambled, soft boiled, hard boiled, and fried totaling sixty-one eggs, challenging the presumed world record of sixty.
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Catro
Frank
Blake
Gilligan Named Cincinnati Internal Revenue Collector
A. C. Gilligan was appointed collector of internal revenue for the Cincinnati district succeeding Bernard Bettman. The long-time Democrat joins the Duckworth Club with strong party backing and is expected to start duties promptly after returning from French Lick Indiana.
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A. C. Gilligan
Internal Revenue
Cincinnati
Bernard Bettman
Gilligan
Cox
Joseph Dowling
Dayton
Commercial Tribune
Dowling
Cleveland
Civil Service
Duckworth Club
French Lick
Ind
Gillifan
Hamilton County
Cat
Bettman
Packer Fulfills Dream By Giving Free Circus To Delavan Children
Edward Tilden, a former penniless boy now a millionaire packer, hosted 2800 Delavan residents at his Lake Delavan country estate. The free circus and picnic featured aviator Jimmy Ward, auto rides, a grand feast, and elephants and acrobats. The event cost about $10,000 and fulfilled a 25 year vow to return to his hometown.
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Commercial Tribune
Chicago
Delaven
Wis
Edward Tilden
Packer
Delavan
Lake Delavan
Jimmy Ward
Irish Make Merry Over Appointment
The Associated Irish Organizations at Richelieu Hall applauded A C Gilligan's appointment as Collector of Internal Revenue and sent congratulations to him. They elected Charles J Fitzgerald and James Butler to the Executive Committee and chose trustees Thomas P Hart Garrett Jr Burke and Captain George Sweeney for terms of one to three years. Plans for Irish Day during the week starting August 10 were discussed as the outing site will be decided next week.
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Richelieu Hall
A. C. Gilligan
Gilligan
French Lick Springs
Wilson
Charles J. Fitzgerald
James Butler
Thomas P. Hart
Garrett Jr, Burke
George Sweeney
Divorce Is Refused Mrs Van Vlissingen
Chicago June 21 A jury in Judge Petits court refused to grant a divorce to Mrs Jessie R Van Vlissingen finding she knew of and profited by her husbands forgeries The defendant Peter Van Vlissingen is serving a Joliet Prison term for mortgage forgeries exceeding 500000 He argued that she knew of his mis deeds before they married and that divorce is a greater crime than forgery.
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Chicago
Jessie R. van Viissingen
van Vlissingen
Cost of living climbs in Cincinnati foods up sharply
A Federal Bureau of Labor statement shows February 15 prices in Cincinnati rose significantly from a year earlier. Major increases include sirloin steak 28 percent, rib roast 18.7 percent, pork chops 28 percent, smoked bacon 90.5 percent, corn meal 96 percent, and butter 7 percent, while flour down 4 percent and eggs down 28.5 percent.
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Washington
D. C
Cincinnati
Fed
Eral Bureau of Labor
She’s Alive After False Obituary Hurts Election Bid
Mrs. Helen Talbot, secretary of the Ladies' Kennel Club of America and recent candidate for reelection, denounces a Boston paper’s mocked obituary she says was meant to deter votes. She vows to respond to the contemptible trick and defend her standing in the club.
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Helen Talbot
Ladies’ Kennel Club of America
Boston
Icemen and Teamsters Ready to Arbitrate Dispute
The icemen and teamsters prepared to arbitrate after bosses rejected a plan. Employers sent a letter inviting negotiations and held a secret session to review differences with their workers.
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Icemen
Dealers Reject Plan to Arbitrate in City
City dealers reject arbitration plan claiming only one plant operates locally. They warn settlement is essential or the situation will become critical.
Ice Fight at Newport Factories Prompts Arbitration Bid
Violence erupts at Newport area ice plants as workers and crews clash while supplies are targeted. The ice manufacturers refuse arbitration, prompting a long union negotiating session at the Business Men's Club and a push to form joint committees and a three-man arbitration board.
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Newport
Business Men’s Club
Ice Dealers’ Association
Engineers
Dealers’ Association
Ice Drivers’ Union
Engineers’ Union
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Central Turner Hall
Riesenberger
H. A. Seinsheimer & Co
Riverside
Progressive Pants Company
Globe Tailoring Company
L. BE. Hays & &Co
Goldman, Beckman & Co
Fechheimer Bros. & Co
Bing
Henry Gelershofer
Cior
United States
Industrial Workers of the World
Risenberger
John Riesenberger
Reisenberger
New York
Rochester
Baltimore
Sontimea
M’nab
Mreynolds
California
Reno
San Francisco
McReynolds
Federal
Grand
District
Attor
Ney McNab
McNab
Woodrow Wilson
The
Washington, D. C
Northern District
Maury Diggs
Andrew Caminetti
Califor
Nia
Department of Justice
Millionaire
Covington
James Cullen
Ice Delivery Company
Cullen
Teamsters’ Union
Firemen's Union
L. T. McArthur
J. O. Bennett
Dave Evans
Dent Sanford
McArthur
Teamsters
McArethur
Twelfth
Jackson
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