Wilson Urges Quick Action on Railway Labor Settlement
President Wilson lays out a program for settling railway labor disputes and expanding federal speed and efficiency. He calls for enlarging the Interstate Commerce Commission, an eight hour day for train workers, public inquiry before strikes, and military control powers if needed, with Senate action urged on related reforms and Porto Rico and electoral spending bills.
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Explosive Method Used to Cut Tree Tops in Logging
An article describes using dynamite to shoot off treetop sections in logging. A rigger ascends with irons to a 12 inch trunk, binds dynamite cartridges around the trunk, lights a fuse, and steps away as the blast severs the top, leaving the trunk ready for rigging and dragging logs.
All He Saw of Battle in a Naval Yarn at the Station
A bluejacket recounts Jutland service and his stoic reception while an eerie stranger listens. The tale turns on pride in the navy and a claim to being only a stoker as the audience weighs the storyteller’s truth.
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Stoker
London
Fashionable dames discuss weight loss and expense fears
Quote reflects social vanity as women discuss reducing weight openly while fearing embarrassment if seen cutting costs. The remark underscores tension between public image and financial restraint in fashionable society.
European War News Highlights from the Front
War bulletin from Petrograd and Berlin claim advances in Roumania, with towns Tromana and Canspulung fallen and thousands of Romanian soldiers captured. British and French actions in Macedonia and the Aegean reported, along with German naval raids on the English east coast. Reports also cover Greek neutral stance, Zeppelins shot down, and a Kansas murder in Topeka.
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London War Office
Carranza Troops Evacuate Chihuahua City Amid Villa Advance
Seven hundred Carranzista troops with 25 guns arrive at Juarez after fleeing Chihuahua City as Ozuna's cavalry escaped on four trains. Refugees report bandit looting. General Trevino announces Chihuahua’s evacuation at five PM as Villa forces tighten grip.
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Theatrical Manager Joseph Brookes Falls From Eighth Floor
Joseph Brookes, theatrical manager for Klaw and Erlinger, fell from his eighth floor New York apartment and died. He was sixty five. Andrew Carnegie, eighty one, spent the day with his family in New York. Mrs Inez Amitholland Boissevain, noted suffragist and welfare worker, died in a Los Angeles hospital after ten weeks of illness at age thirty.
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Klaw & Erlinger
New York
Andrew Carnegie
Inez Amitholland Boissevain
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Estate of Charles I Russell Left to Widow in Will
The will published in the Watchower announces estate valued at 200 dollars bequeathed to widow Miss Laval Morgan. The document notes the December issue will publish the full will details.
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Watch Oweer
New York
United States Proclaims Martial Law in Santo Domingo
Secretary of the Navy Daniels announced in Washington that Captain Barry F. Knapp, commander of the cruiser squadron in Dominican waters, is empowered to establish a military government over the republic. The move follows the death of Senator D Arkansas and references President Wilson and his advisers in seeking a peace settlement.
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