Wages and Cost of Living Debate in Rail Labor
Discussion outlines mounting railroad wage and hour pressures, potential union bloc demand for higher pay and shorter hours, and the broader impact on employment. It analyzes living costs, profitability, policy needs, and the need to suppress privilege to ease price pressures. The piece also notes a Texas company charter for lubricators and a New York telegraphone trial to reduce railroad dispatch errors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New York
Dr Kings New Life Pills Promise Quick Constipation Cure
Advertisement claims chronic constipation is quickly cured by Dr Kings New Life Pills. It says the pills remove poisonous germs, renew life and vigor, and relieve sour stomach nausea headache dizziness and colic without gripping. Priced 25 cents and guaranteed by Price Mitchell druggists.
Electric Bitters Restores Mrs Gilpatrick After Long Illness
Mrs W N Gilpatrick of Danforth Maine reports rapid recovery after dyspepsia left her weak for twenty years. Six months ago she began Electric Bitters, claiming renewed vigor of youth at seventy and restored stomach liver and kidney function. Price 50 cents, guaranteed by Price and Mitchell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. N. Gilpatrick
Danforth
Price & Mitchell
Bucklen Arnica Salve Endorsed For Skin Ailments
Tekonsaa Michigan resident G. J. Welch reports using Bucklen's Arnica Salve for cuts sores and skin injuries in his family and finds it perfect. Promises fastest pile cure and best healing salve at 25 cents at Price & Mitchell's drug store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. J. Welch
Tekonsaa
Mich
Price & Mitchell's
Pencil Wetting Habit Surprises Eastern Office Crowd
An energetic clerk recalls 49 of 50 customers who visited the Eastern newspaper office to place ads wet the pencil before writing. A beer wagon driver and a girl with a lost bracelet both wet the same pencil, and 49 of 50 people ended up licking it. The reason remains unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Times
Gun toters loom in Fort It’s town amid crowd noise
The editor laments armed locals in street scenes while a fire alarm rang and pistol shots echoed. He scolds gun owners as cowards and urges calling for help during emergencies, praising lawmen who avoid carrying guns. Mrs. F M Frey and her mother visited Waco last Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. M. Frey
Starving to Death and a Miracle Cure
Mary H. Walters of Columbus Ohio claims severe weakness from drugs left her unable to eat or sleep until Electric Litters produced immediate improvement and a complete cure. The ad promotes Price Mitchell druggists offering 50 cents for the tonic and Chamberlain's Cough Remedy priced at two cents and sold by Price Mitchell with claims of aiding nature and preventing pneumonia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary HH. Walters
St. Clair St
Columbus
Price & Mitchell Druggists
Chamberlin
Price
Price & Mitchel
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W. KE. Schenck
T. QO. Prather
Clifton Photographer
P. E. Schow & Bros
San Angelo
J. W. Butler
Tex
D. L. Davis
Kirksville, Mo
Clifton
Brooks Block
Morgan
Texas
Belcher Brothers
Womack Bros
Trans-fer Line
Meridian
Thos. L. Gillespie
Brooks
G. W. Collins
Clifton, Texas
California
Colonist Ticket
Via
W. S. Keenan, G. P. A
Galveston
Austin
International Lubricator Company of
Hillsboro
Capital
Ed Rogers
J. W. People
H. M Larry
J. A. Wilson
Millan
Harry Beck
aSinech Cambric
Brown Domestic
W. B. Uniform
King & Company
Hunter
Chamberlain
Nature
Crantills Gap
Moshiem
Valley Mills
Womack
Cli Ifton
Kimball
Fowler
Morean
Walnut Springs
Tredell
Yours Very Truly
R. V. Ferguson
Roswell
Greenock
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