Procter & Gamble Plans Worker Co op with Eight Hour Day
William Cooper Procter announces an employee driven plan at Music Hall aimed at eight hour shifts across departments, wage increases on a sliding scale, a minimum ten hours pay for eight, and representation of workers on the Board of Directors. He expects widespread adoption within a year, while noting U S interests in the League of Nations and confirming profit sharing and pension updates in the wake of the influenza epidemic.
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Procter & Gamble
William Cooper Procter
Procter & Gamble Company
United States
Procter
Hamilton County
L‘goder
League of Nations
Mr. Procter
Music Hall
A. E. Anderson
Weather summary and March 1 1919 observations
The report details fair and cloudy conditions across states including Ohio Indiana Kentucky West Virginia and Boston New Orleans Omaha San Antonio and others with temperature readings and precipitation notes. It also records a March 1 1919 temperature and weather observations at Cincinnati and other stations with highs lows wind and rain data.
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Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
West Virginia
Boston
Nce City
New Orleans
Oomaha
Salveston
Denver
Nashville
S. Francisco
Memphis
Winniper
Telow Vero
Cincinnati
Thirty seventh Ohio National Guard to sail from Brest March 10
A cablegram to The Plain Dealer reports the Thirty-Seventh Ohio National Guard Division will sail from Brest, France on about March 10. Mayor Davis was told in a Washington telephone call with Assistant Secretary of War Crowell that March 10 is the probable sailing date.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Cleve
Land Plain Dealer
France
Ohio
National Guard
Brest
Sation
Crowell
Washington
Madrid unrest returns to normal as shops reopen
Madrid resumed business and normal life after Friday protests. Attacks on bakeries and food shops, mainly in the suburbs, led to a popular movement that seized butcher shops. Skirmishes and stone throwing occurred between demonstrators and police near the markets.
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Madrid
Taft to Speak on Peace at Cincinnati Chamber Event
Former President William Howard Taft will speak at the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce in Exchange Hall at noon tomorrow to discuss the League of Nations. Edwin C. Gibbs, Chamber president, will preside and Taft arrives today from Atlanta to stay with his brother Charles P. Taft until Monday afternoon.
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Chamber of Commerce
William Howard Taft
Exchange Hall
Cincinnati
Mr. Taft
League of Nations
Taft
Edwin C. Gibbs
Mr. Gibbs
League For the Enforcement of Peace
Atlanta
Charles P. Taft
Hanselman to Defend Rats Case in Court
Local court to hear Hanselman defense in a case over pest control and animal welfare involving rats. Proceedings focus on treatment methods and legal coverage. Public interest centers on municipal pest control policy and animal protection concerns.
Lawmakers Hear Proposals On Fraternities And Crossing Safety
A Hamilton County delegation at the Gibson Hotel in Wendell discusses Ohio bills on stopping at rail crossings and opposing public school fraternities. Speakers include Civic and Vocational League president Wendell Hanselmann and Auto Trade Association figures supporting and opposing measures.
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General Assembly
Ohio
Hamilton County
Gibson Hotel
Wendell Hanselmann
Civic and Vocational League
Hanselmann
Congress Discusses Irish Question Under Delegation Pressure
A Philadelphia Irish race convention delegation won House Rules Committee support to make a resolution instructing American delegates to press Ireland's cause at the peace conference. They met with President Wilson in Washington and were told he would receive them in New York next Tuesday after a Metropolitan Opera appearance.
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Associated Press
Washington
Philadelphia
House Rules Committee
Paris
Ireland
John W. Goff
Daniel F. Cohalan
New York
Rules Committee
House
White House
Wilson
Metropolitan Opera House
League of Nations
John P. Grace
Charleston
S. C
America
Pacific Coast
New England
South
Springfield Lad Tests Courage in War Tales on Sobral
A fifteen year old American boy from Springfield Ohio named Harry Skinner survived the Lusitania disaster and served as a crowd mascot with a British regiment in France. After injury and gas exposure in WWI he joined the 102d Infantry of the 26th Division and returned home as a galley assistant aboard the Sobral.
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Associated Press
New York
Sobral
Harry Skinner
Springfield
Skinner
France
102D
German unrest deepens as General goes missing in Erfurt
General Maercker, guarding the National Assembly at Weimar, was attacked in Erfurt and robbed of a portfolio with plans to handle strikes in Central Germany. Reports from Berne and Paris describe widening strikes, railway closures, and mass troop mobilizations across Halle Merseburg and Dresden amid fears of a reign of terror.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Maercker
National Assembly
Weimar
Erfurt
Germany
German Bolshevik agitation used as German threat
Paris newspapers analyze the Scheidemann Government stance on Spartacan agitation. They question if the movement is being encouraged or not repressed as Allies prepare to present reparations terms, concluding that Spartacan activity may be used by Germany as a weapon against the Allies.
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Berlin
Germany
Brunswick
Spandau
Dusseldorf
Bauer
Leipsic
Halle
Berli m
Greater
Paris
Scheidemann
Wealthy Financier Daniel Reid Named in Separation Suit
New York March 1 Daniel G Reid multimillionaire steel and railroad financier is named as defendant in a summons in an action for separation filed in the County Court today by his wife Mrs. Ergaret M Carriers Reid a former actress
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Associated Press
New York
Daniel G. Reid
Ergaret M. Carriers Reid
World Powers Open Talks on War Debts and Reapportionment
Paris dispatch reports the Council of the Great Powers began examining postwar financial questions including war debts and the idea of pooling allied debts. French finance chief Louis Klotz and American members led two reports outlining reorganization without firm recommendations amid divergent views from Britain Japan and the United States.
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Financial Commission
Louis Klotz
Finance
Albert Strauss
Norman Davis
Economic Commission
Albert Clementel
France
Bernard W. Baruch
Vance McCormick
A. A. Davis
Financial’ Commission
Republican filibuster on Victory Loan fails to halt action
Senate leaders predicted the Victory Loan measure would pass despite Republican efforts to block it. Senator Sherman of Illinois quit the conference and signaled he would not return, leaving Republicans with only a one vote Senate majority if not present. Obstruction discussions strained relations as leaders weighed the impact on a possible extra session and financial markets ahead of May or June timing.
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F. A. Nichols
Fadna C. Ohnstein
Central Trades Council
Dr. C. S. Muscroft
Fred Haricotte
Fourth National Bank
Ralph R. Curl
Automotive Trade Association
Curl
Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Congress
Senate
German Spy System Spreads Propaganda Among Slovaks
Prague officials report a wide spying network centered at the German Consulate in Prague used to distribute anti Czech propaganda via charitable fronts. A Bodenbach frontier courier was detained while discarding documents to Dr Swarz the German Vice Consul at Prague aimed at stirring German Austria’s population against the Czecho Slovak state.
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Associated Press
Paris
Prague
Havas
Bodenbach
Foreign Office
Berlin
Austria
Shipping Board chief warns against further ship cancellations
Chairman Edward N Hurley warns that more drastic cancellations of postwar shipbuilding contracts could trigger a “orgy of litigation,” hurt labor markets, and damage the shipping industry. He notes current cancellations already leave the fleet 9 750 deadweight tons short of 1914 capacity and cites ongoing foreign competition and economic risks.
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Hurley
Associated Press
Washington
Shipping Board
Edward N. Hurley
Swager Sherley
House Appropriations Committee
Fleet Corporation
Porto Rico Faces Statehood Or Independence Debate
After two days of debate in the Insular Legislature unions and Republicans unite to push Congress for a definite Porto Rico status. If statehood is impossible, independence should be pursued. Davila’s Washington speech prompts messages of support and criticism from local leaders and observers.
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San Juan
P. R
American Congress
Porto Rico
House of Representatives
Washington
Felix Cordova Davila
Congress
Commissioner Davila
Iglesias
Davila
Fate of surrendered German warships debated in London
Reuters reports from London that breaking up the vessels would take three years and yield about 2 million dollars. The ships are obsolete and costly to maintain as merchant ships, while salvage parts would be hard to obtain. Sinking for breakwaters is impracticable, division of ships would require an agreed basis, possibly by wartime losses or current naval strength.
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Kiel ‘Canal
Admiral Benson
United States
Hell Gate
Cape Cod Canal
Supreme Council
Associated Press
London
Montreal
Reuters Limited
Scapa Flow
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