House in storm over labor bill for $3,000,000 tinplate mill
Washington debate rages as the Keating bill to ban inter state shipments of child labor products triggers a six hour filibuster. Maryland officials push amendments to exempt canneries while House members clash over constitutionality and labor conditions. In Baltimore the Baltimore Sheet and Tinplate Company plans a $3 million plant to open with 400 workers, start construction soon, and operate by fall.
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Washington
House
David J. Lewis
Land
Committee On Labor
Webb
North Carolina
Moore
Pennsylvania
Byrnes
South Carolina
Soern
Roel
Lewis
Monn
North
Maryland
Price
Baltimore Sheet and Tinplate Company
Baltimore
Ad Marketines Products
State to consider aid for fire marshal shot in line of duty
Frederick Md Jan 27 The state may provide for Fire Marshal Meyers who was shot while performing his duties and may get a pension or government aid. Augustus Ryan of Baltimore pressed Governor Harrington to ensure care and placement for Meyers with Ryan noting the governor was impressed by the plea.
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Frederick
Meyers
Maryland
Myers
Augustus Ryan
Baltimore
Harrington
Ryan
Mr. Ryan
Collector Ryan
Tragedy Report From Terra Alta Explains Friday Night Death
A local Terra Alta West Virginia death by self harm was reported by The Press on Monday, following an afternoon paper story about the incident two days earlier. The events unfolded Friday night according to the brief items.
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Terra Alta
W. Va
Uniform Child Labor Rules Highlighted by Speaker
A speaker recalls mining work at age nine and argues for a uniform national law on child employment. He says denying education harms a child and cites progress in industry and finance as reasons civilization must end child labor before age 14. He rejects doctors’ views and urges protection of education for all children.
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Pennsylvania
Lewis
Sale of satin bed spreads at discounted price
Friday morning from 10 to 11 o'clock McMullen Bros. will sell $1.98 plain hemmed satin double bed spreads at $1.19 each. Not more than one to a customer. No mail, phone or C. O. D. order filled.
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McMullen Bros
Funeral Rugs Banned in Baltimore Public Funerals
Health Commissioner Blake issued an order prohibiting undertakers from using rugs draperies canopies and light materials with caskets at public and private funerals citing germs and infection risk. He sent the ruling to Henry W Jenkins president of the State Board of Undertakers and instructed disseminating it through the organization.
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Baltimore
Blake
Henry W. Jenkins
State Board of Undertakers
Calvert
Denar Sire
John P. Blake
Rlake
Washington County adopts tighter purchase control
The Washington County Commissioners voted to require county approval for all purchases. They also urged the county delegation to back a bill exempting the county from the Shoemaker road law.
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Washington County
Old Guard Ball At Biltmore To Feature Military March
New York reports the Old Guard veteran Battalion has completed preparations for its largest ball yet with a military march as the highlight. Officers from the army navy and National Guard in full uniform will attend at the Hotel Biltmore tomorrow night. Guests include veterans from Boston Philadelphia Hartford and other cities.
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OLD Guard
New York
Hotel Biltmore
Army
Navy
National Guard
Boston
Philadelphia
Hartford
Salvation Army Congress Convenes in Atlanta
A Southern Salvation Army congress opened in Atlanta on January 27 to review past work in the South and plan future efforts. The program spans several days with public sessions and rallies, and leading officers from New York Philadelphia Baltimore Birmingham and other cities attend.
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Atlanta
The
Salvation Army
South
New York
Philadelphia
Paltimore
Birmingham
This Man Is Too Tall for the U S Marine Corps
Michael Tuholski a 22 year old puddler from Cleveland was rejected at the Pittsburgh Marine Corps recruiting station for being too tall at six feet five inches and 257 pounds. The medical examiner called him a perfect physical specimen but the Marines cap height at 78 inches. Tuholski said he will return to puddling and did not seek a challenge from any famous heavyweight.
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Pittsburgh
Michael Tuholski
Cleveland
United States Marine Corps
Marine Corps
Tuholski
Michael de Boo
Jess Willard
Frank Moran
de Boo
Bus car wreck at Union Stock Yards claims 100 lives
Baltimore report says a freight car derailed at the Baltimore and Ohio viaduct in Claremont 70 feet down, killing about 100 of the 190 aboard. Ninety others escaped injury and were moved to the Union Abattoir for processing, while the text mentions later a MecGRAW trial date in February and related indictments in Grafton bank cases.
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Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Union Stock Yards
Claremont
Union
Mecgraw
Grafton
W. Va
Charles R. Durbin
Grafton Bank
Col
John T. Me‘jraw
Georgia Negro to be hanged at Rabun jail tomorrow
Clinton Ga Jan 27 Will Brown a negro convicted of wife murder is to be hanged in the Rabun county jail here tomorrow despite requests from the trial judge ten jurors the prosecuting attorney and leading citizens for clemency. Governor Harris declined commutation citing lack of new trial and dangerous record.
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Clinton
Will Brown
Rabun County
Harris
Supreme Court
Will pay cash for discarded sets of false teeth
Classified ad seeks denture remains offering cash in exchange. Provides box 491 for responses dated January 20 and extending a one week window. Local ad notes contact method and brief payment promise.
Burke Sues for 1700 After Meade Elopement
Huntington West Virginia January 27. J W Burke sues for 1700 claiming he advanced Miss Mettie B Meade of Charleston in reliance on a marriage plan. He says she eloped to Atlantic City and wed a man named Nutter while still engaged.
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Huntington
W. Va
Mettie B. Meade
Charleston
J. W. Burke
Burke
Miss Meade
Atlantic City
Nutter
Woman Bandit Sought After Train Robbery
Police seek a woman believed linked to the Baltimore and Ohio train robbery in Clarksburg West Virginia. The arrest of John Harris in San Antonio Texas tied a two woman pair to the crime described as wearing overalls and jumpers during the holdup.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Baltimore and Ohio
John Harris
San Antonio
Texas
Harvard Professors Absent as 1916-17 Opens
United Press dispatch from Cambridge reports several Harvard professors will be absent at the start of the 1916-17 academic year. Wallace Clement Sabine becomes exchange professor to France. Kane Francke and Walter F. Dearborn receive leave of absence. Albert A. Shapiro and Samuel E. Morison take new roles. Frank J. Smiley resigns. A military medicine course is added with Maj. Weston P. Chamberlain lecturing. gifts totaling 43987.84 include 10000 from J. Arthur Beebe estate and 10000 from Francis W. Hunnewell for hospital endowment.
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Cambridge
Harvard
Wallace Clement Sabine
France
Kane Francke
Walter F. Dearborn
Albert A. Shapiro
Samuel E. Morison
Frank J. Smiley
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