Rail labor strife and policy talk across the nation
Reports from Washington and Chicago describe disputes over rail leadership, proposed tribunals to settle rail conflicts, and opposition to separate shop crafts agreements. Despite rain and coal strikes, overall employment hints at normalizing conditions as Congress debates fate of labor measures and embargo policies.
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Chicago
Watts
Department of Labor
Washington
Jewell
Shop Crafts Unionn
Ronson
Pershing Receives Sixty-Second Birthday Compliments At War Office
In Washington, General Pershing, surrounded by flowers from staff officers, marks his sixty-second birthday at his War Department desk. A garbled dispatch notes varied wartime updates from Washington to London, including political and economic items across the Allied fronts, with references to Irish cabinet matters, British support, and inflation concerns.
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Kenseral
Creneral Pershing
War Department
Washington
Iowa State News Highlights From Across Towns
A mix of short Iowa items: Charles City tax levy increased two mills. Elsie Bender to teach in Cairo. A J White suspended ten days for pool on duty. Westfield Dickerson farm yields 200 bushels apples. thieves exchanged by marshals near Storm Lake. safes stolen from Gillett's Grove bank found in Hartley area field. Emma Harvat hospital in San Francisco after accident. Sioux City judge fined for contempt. Interurban line burned old creosote blocks to save coating. Dexter real estate man Whetzel dies. Mt Pleasant ex-board member Hughes dead in Missouri. Cedar Rapids Cedar Rapids banker Conrad escapes jail twice. farmers claim $11.417 billion loss from deflation over two years. Lorraine West drowns near Fort Dodge. Sioux City total association seeks funds for college courses in hometown. Cherokees rail stock trucking to Sioux City. Davenport boy June Bendixen swims the Mississippi. Red Oak man James Babb, 328 pounds, dies. Humboldt judge Dan Coyle band promotes fair. Iowa City Canning doubles shift. Mrs. Berger of Sioux City commits suicide after wife’s death. Emma Hines buried in Wray Branch after porch fall. Judge Taylor sues Interstate Power for damage to trees. Farragut cattle shipped to Boston. Kramers robbery case moves to Shub. Watermelon riot in Sioux City ends with melon containing books and Georgia Cocktail."
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Charles City
Elsie Bender
Monticelio
Egypt
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Cairo
A. J. White
Bronx City
Dickerson
Hancock Township
Westfield
Standard Oil Company
Storm Lake
State Bank
Gillett's Grove
Charles Muha
Hartley
Misa Emma Harvat
Iowa City
San Prancisco
Folt
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Interurban
Cedar Rapids
Marlon
Call
W. A. Whetzel
Dexter
John R. Hughes
Mt. Pleasant
Board of
Supervisora
Parker
Albert Conrad
Cedar Rapida
Marion End
Fort Madigan
Peder Pederson
Farm Bureau
Uilbertavilla
Lorraine West
Fort Dodge
E. C. Noply
American Total Association
Hom Town
Cherokes
Len Jenking
Cherokees
Ha Ie
June Bendixen
Davenport
Michael Berger
George Gruber
Shenandogh Pavilion
Emma Hines
Council Puffa
Wrat Branch
Taylor
Waukon
Interstate Power Company
Givin
George
Walter Hutt
Kramera
Ermitd
Shubby County
Triad
Pullee
Georgia
Scrugham Seeks Nevada Governor Post
James Q Scrugham, Nevada state engineer and past Legion national officer, is named a candidate for governor. He led Nevada’s Boulder Canyon Project role and helped draft the Legion’s adjusted compensation plan. Born Lexington Kentucky 1880, he later taught at University of Nevada before entering public service.
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James G. Scrugham
National
The
American Legion
Hanford MacNider
Scrugham
Neveda
Boulder Canyon
Legion
Service Men's Organization
Nevada
Lexington
State University of Kentucky
Engineering College
University of Nevada
Artillery
Ordnance Department
Washington
Graves of War of 1812 Heroes Decorated in England
The London American Legion decorated 218 War of 1812 graves in Dartmoor Prison and nearby London on Memorial Day. Ceremonies also marked 450 World War dead at Brookwood Cemetery, 80 miles from London, with a cairn and monument to prisoners of war after years without markers.
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Princeton
England
Dartmoor
London
American Legion
Legion
Brookwood Cemetery
American Legion in Mangum to Build Playground
After two years of fundraising for a clubhouse the Mangum Oklahoma American Legion post opted to lease land for a playground for local children. The eight year lease will fund improvements and play equipment. The American Legion Auxiliary seeks the war mother with the most sons in service, noting Indiana towns boast families with up to seven sons serving.
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Mangum
Okla
American Legion Auxiliary
Indianapolis
America
Indiana
Auxiliary
Sery Toa
British Move for War Over Constantinople Crisis
Parcels regional dispatches report a shifting crisis as Britain and France clash over Constantinople. Italy backs Turkish demands to evacuate the city while Greece faces renewed pressure on Thrace and Adrianople. England warns it may hold the city alone. The Entente seeks to avert a world war amid urgent diplomatic efforts.
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Great Britain
France
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Thrace
Adrianople
Lord Harding
J. M. Kenworthy
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Hen
Ertols
Greece
Bosporus
Russia
Angora
Venice
Mintatera
Balkans
Protest over U S Bureau Chief appointment in 1674
At Atlantic City the International Typographical Union convention adopted a resolution protesting the appointment of George H. Carter as chief of the Government Printing Bureau. The resolution argues Carter is not qualified by law because he is not a practical printer or an expert bookkeeper.
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N. J
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George H. Carter
Government Printing Bureau
International Typographical Union
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Iaw
Evangeline Booth Is Out New York Radio Notification
Evangeline Booth commander of the Salvation Army in America received a radio from Bramwell Booth announcing her retirement as commander with effect to be set later. Also Wisconsin returns show Senator La Follette winning the Republican nomination by a large margin and actor Harold Skinner dies in San Diego after years of illness.
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Evangeline Booth
America
Bramwell Booth
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Follette
United States
Wiliam A. Ganfield
Harold Joe Skinner
San Diego
Cal
Harold Offa Skinner
Mecca
Mill owners protest coal prices across four states
Forty four mills in Minnesota Wisconsin Iowa and South Dakota protested current prices charged by coal operators and wholesale distributors, urging a resolution.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Fortyfour
Minnesota
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Towa
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