Unemployed Convention Seeks 25 Million for Workers Reform
The national unemployed convention in St. Louis votes to ask Congress to provide 25,000,600 to banks during the financial flurry to fund men and women out of work. It calls for insurance against idleness and supports worker mobility, monopolies abolition, and end of the vagrancy law. Speakers include Joseph L. Coxey and Secretary Taft.
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ST. Louis
National Convention of
United States
Roosevelt
Congress
Joseph L. Coxey
Usher's Army
Wir Taft
Ben L. Reitman
Chicago
Janie Eadsowe
Mr. Ellis
Boston
W. J. Millard
Cincinnati
Cork V. Hargay
Fort Wayne city finances show bonds and levies
City clerk J Frank Mungovan forwards a 1908 financial statement for Fort Wayne and the school city. Figures include bonds outstanding totaling 594 800, school funds, sinking funds, taxes from utilities and liquor licenses, and expenditures for city officers and health. Also notes warrants outstanding and infrastructure counts. Local lodge invites to funeral services for Bro Tillie Stager.
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Fort Wayna
School City
J. Frank Mungavan
Fort Wayne
Mary Stubbs
Mungovan
Gekeceip' Si Seer Tobey
Water Works Department
Weir Hall
Eiter Calhounine Streets
Lo'elock P. m
Tillie
Stager
WN. G
J. Bauer
A Ak
Warning on counterfeit ten dollar bills reaching west
Banks and merchants report detection difficulties as phony ten dollar notes spread from the east toward western cities. The counterfeit is slightly heavier, off color, and crudely made, making it blend with real currency when bundled with other notes.
Fort Wayne Stomach Aid Ad Promises Quick Indigestion Cure
An old advertisement touts Mi pna stomach tablets as a reliable remedy for indigestion and stomach weakness. It claims rapid relief from giddiness, confusion, sleeplessness, and other distress after meals, asserting unique action on stomach muscles and digestive juice flow, with a money back guarantee if it fails to cure.
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Meyer Bros. Ch
Miona
City Health Officials Plan Licenses for Butchers and Dealers
City Attorney Colerick and Dr. H O Bruggeman met to outline pursuing license enforcement for butchers and meat dealers. The city will file affidavits and press cases to collect fees, while a government program provides tuberculin free of charge to aid tuberculosis testing of cows.
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Colerick
Health Board
Guy Colerick
H. O.bruggeman
City’ Board of Health
Bruggeman
Bureau of Animal Industry
United States Department of Agricuture
Board of Health
State Board of Health
State Board
Fort Wayne
City Board
Gillie
George Gillie
Fresh air scarlet fever preventive urged as cases rise
Four new scarlet fever cases reported in the city raise the tally to twenty two. Dr H O Bruggeman warns the epidemic may grow before subsiding while noting some mild cases and urging fresh air and exercise as prevention. Children kept indoors are most at risk. three from the Sientz family and one from the Hoffer family are named.
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H.O. Bruggéman
Ami
Hollister
Meyer Bros. Co
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ST. P. Louis
Lena May Brooks
Prairie Hall
Macon County
Williams
Dr. Williams
Br. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
Sts Ye
Stubbs
Butchers
Eclipse
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