Wyoming Brief News Notes Roundup of 1919 Events
A Wyoming-wide brief notes column reports a Thermopolis district court not guilty verdict in State v Devine, storms and blizzards threaten grazing regions, and Mrs Gertrude Hicks named deputy prohibition commissioner. Powell fire at Globe Motor Company caused $75,000 loss. Lovell Legion posts seeks library funding. Carter hotel adopts crude oil heating in Thermopolis. James Hynds loses an arm in a rail yard accident. State assessed valuation rises to $875,230,158 with county and industry breakdowns. First annual equa lization report lists county figures, Draper and Crowley release data. Mountain flow near Glenrock killed by Tom Wrbaker. Two officers return from war, report to Washington. Alamo charged in bank scam. Gov Corey to call special session to ratify suffrage amendment. Casper mayor Leeper dies after cancer operations.
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Thermopolia
Devine
Ned” Devine
Sam Vansehuyver
Ainte Reserve
Wyoming
Gertrude Corey Hicks
Prohibition
Carey
Fred L. Crabbe
Globe Motor Company
Powell
American Legion
Lovell Post
No. 11
Lovell
Carter Hotel
Thermopolis
Warm Springs
James Hynds
Guernsey
Laramie County
Reorganized State Board of Equallination
Chaude L. Draper
KE. N. Crowley
Albany
Bie Horn
Carbon
Goshen
Hot Springs
Johnson
Laramie
Lincoln
Natrona
Niobrara
Park
Platte
Sheridan
Sweetwater
Uinta
Washtnkle
Weston
Third Wyoming Infantry
Philip Alamo
King Lester Myres
Jack Allen
Old Clark Ranch
Cysgper Creek
Wyoming Nathopas Bank
Casper
Alamilo
Scotts Bluffs
Sanbar
Western Union
Wyoming National Bank
Robert D. Corey
John FP
Leeper
Central Wyoming
Kirkborn OU Company
Chleago
End of coal strike as union approves return to work
United Mine Workers votes 1 dissenting to accept President Wilson's plan for immediate return to work while a wage settlement will be finalized by a commission. Telegrams issued to 4000 locals. Operators expect full resumption within 24 hours amid broad relief from miners and officials.
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Union News Service
Indiannapolis
Dee Wee
United Mine Workers of American
Wilson
John L. Lewis
William Green
Plea for More Production in Labor Reports
In Secretary Wilsons annual labor report concluding remarks, she argues that living standards rise either through higher productivity or raising wages out of profits. Profiteering arises if profits stay high while costs grow, especially amid war disruptions. A free flow of material from producer to consumer reduces profiteering and boosts wage real value.
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Washington
Wilson
Plans to start disinterment of soldiers in England
Washington plans to begin early disinterment of American soldiers' bodies in England. Two officers and a graves registration detachment of fifty eight men from the quartermaster corps will sail from New York aboard the transport Martha Washington to Southampton to begin the work.
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Washington
England
Music By Wireless Shines At Navy Transport Building
In the Midwest amateur wireless enthusiasts were entertained by Jawa minele and grand oper thrown out from the United States navy station at the Transportation building. Chief Electrician Grover M. Diekund, USN, operated a high power transmitter and photograph. A record titled Ive Get My Captain Working for Me Now was played on the machine with the wireless telephone sound chamber.
Garfield Won't Talk Operators Say Public Been Delivered to Strikers
Western Newspaper Union dispatch reports fuel directors granted power to lift coal use restrictions as miner strikes ease and regions justify. Officials expect Garfield resignation to pass, work for administration shift to Railroad Administration. Operators criticize proposed settlement terms while noting a large miners return to work in Pennsylvania and Indiana.
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Washington
Hines
New York
Allroad Administration
Indiana
Garfield
Wilson
White House
Railroad Administration
Central Pennsylvania
United States
United Mine Workers
F. Fr. Harkness
The
Fuel Administration
Senate Passes Sugar Bill Amid Famine Shortage
Washington The Louisilang senators filibustered against the MacNary bill to ease the sugar famine but the Senate passed the measure without a roll call. Doubts remain whether the late action will lower sugar prices, though it should ease the shortage by authorizing the purchase of about 8,000,000 tons of Cuban sugar.
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Senate
Washington
Louislang
Nationwide coal restrictions issued as strike bites US
Washington announces a Fuel Administration order tightening lighting and heating nationwide due to dwindling bituminous coal amid the miners' strike. Most sectors face reduced fuel use. electric train heat and street lights cut. manufacturing limited to three days weekly. anthracite and other fuels largely unaffected. The move, while drastic, aims to secure essential needs and food production during the shortage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Washington
Garfield
Railroad Administration
The
Fuel Administration
Must Enforce Restrictions Washington Coal Strike Ends
Expressions of relief by government officials followed the nationwide coal miners strike settlement. Fuel Administrator Garfield warned that immediate relaxation of coal consumption restrictions would not be considered despite Indianapolis miners accepting President Wilson's proposal.
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Washington
Garfield
Indianapolis
Wilson
Senator Jones proposes postage hike for papers over twenty four pages
Would Limit Newspapers in Washington under a bill by Sen Jones Democrat New Mexico. He says larger papers with their own mills use up petal paper and argues twenty four pages will suffice for current news and ads. The measure targets big city publishers.
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Washington
Jones
New Mexico
Senator Jones
UMW urges miners to return to work amid coal shortages
United Mine Workers officials call on 4000 local unions to resume production promptly to meet public coal needs. Children of Oct strike shift, as reports say most idle mines have restarted. government probes possible antitrust violations while contempt charges against 84 officials may be dropped. A circular outlines wage terms, the Garfield plan criticism, and a planned convention after full resumption.
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Western Newspaper Union News Service
Indianapolis
Ind
United Mine Workers of American
Grand Jury
Almer
Garfield
Emma Goldman Abandons Deportation Fight with Berkman
Emma Goldman, alongside longtime associate Alexander Berkman, declared through her attorney that she has stopped opposing the Supreme Court case seeking to stop their deportation to Soviet Russia. Around eighty radicals face similar orders in the action.
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New York
Alexander Berkman
Emma Goldman
Supreme Court
Soviet Russia
Berkman
Drive Americans Out and Carranza Policy Reported
The Fall committee investigating Mexican affairs released testimony portraying the Carranza government as seeking to drive Americans from Mexico. It accuses Mexican officials of fomenting anti American actions and diplomatic protests against the United States.
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Washington
Carranza
Collision Reported Between Steamers Carmania and Maryland
Intercepted messages from a rival radio station say two British steamers, Carmania and Maryland, collided about 200 miles east of Halifax. Carmania sustained slight damage while damage to the Maryland was not specified.
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Ncoston
Carmani
Maryland
Halifax
Canadian Gold Sends Aid to Stabilize Market
Canadian gold valued at 0.8 and Otuwie-Twenty million dollars are being sent to New York to steady the demoralized Canadian exchange in the market, according to reports received here.
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Otuwie
New York
New York Tax Panel Grants Rockefeller Reduction Request
Rockefeller’s attorney presented a statement in New York protesting a tax assessment of 35,000,000. The application sought a reduction to 2,000,000 and was granted. The statement lists Rockefeller’s personal effects including furniture jewelry horses and carriages valued at about 1,000,000 plus bank balances around 60,000 and current bills.
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New York
John D. Thockefeller
Iockefeller
Metal markets report with mixed commodity prices
A garbled Chicago style metal market listing shows various prices across metals and grains. Copper at 18.190 per pound, silver 1.34, lead 6.75, tungsten 7.50 to 12.00 per unit, top and fines around 13.00 to 14.00, high light 12.26, and multiple animal and grain figures. overall, a snapshot of fluctuating commodity values with scattered units and broken lines.
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Eben Ewan Eberre
Colo
Denver
Southark
Saeene
Pat
Coloradoo
Weli
Chicago
Oeder
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Ehtern
Secretary of Labor
Music By Wireless
MR. Marshall
Prince OF Wales
Niun Station
Marshall
U. S
Red Emma
Onepaper Union News Service
Denver Markets
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