Freight wage rise may lift coal costs yet
Miners, operators undecided on further price hikes as wage increases for 16 Aino coal workers take effect. Retail coal deals lift charges across interstate routes, with freight rates rising from 4 to 38 percent and consumers facing added costs. Industry officials say immediate retail impact is uncertain while some carriers plan to raise prices to offset wage effects.
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Chlengs
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Emi
Angier
May
South Dearborn
Clinsis
Gouria
Green Bay Growth Surges Across Cities in Early 20th Century
A scrambled report lists several U S cities with population gains and percentages in a growing trend. Notable entries include Green Bay Wisconsin showing significant increases, with figures around 5781 and 220 percent, plus other towns like Red Wing Minnesota and Hot Springs Arkansas reporting double and triple digit growth amid a broad regional expansion.
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Green Bay
Wis
Facrence
Red Wing
Mine
Bath
de Ervane
Huron
Hot Springs
Ark
Decounty
Grendade
Cal
Idaho nominating Mell Irfen for First district seat
Mell K. Irfen of Sand Point was nominated to the Democratic state convention for Congress from the First district. She is the first woman named for a congressional race in Idaho. United States Senator John F. Nugent of Waho was renominated by acclamation in a mining vote.
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Tiihe Falls
Idaho
Mra
Mell K. Irfen
Sand Point
Congress
Ione
United States
John F. Nugent
Wmaho
Anaptmous Mining Voto
Kidnapped Americans Freed Reported From Jalisco
Fragmented telegraphic notes from Guadalajara Mexico report that kidnapped Americans were released. Other items: Soviet evacuations in Viton Lithus and surrounding areas, and railway station occupation. A Chicago dispatch notes formal acceptance of a wage increase for coal workers and a Peoria tale of a daughter receiving a silver dollar as a gift. The Tokyo government considers repatriation of Japanese emigrants. Tennessee suffrage ratification certified by the attorney general.
Women Given Vote James Wilson Dead
Washington Aug 283 The proclamation that the suffrage amendment was ratified was signed by Secretary Colby at eight o clock in his home as Tennessee’s ratification arrived. The document certifies the amendment’s validity and is part of the Constitution. James Wilson, former secretary of agriculture, died at 11 a m in his cabin at Washington. He served under McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft and helped shape U S agriculture. Born August 16, 1895 in Ayrshire Scotland, he came to America in 1851 and later moved to Iowa.
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Washington
Colby
State Department
Roberts
Tennessee
Ten- Dusate
Secretary of State
F. K. Nielsen
Ste Cal
Bainbridge Colby
United States
Traer
James Wilson
Department of Nature
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Roosevelt
Taft
Pat Bors
Ayrshire
Scotland
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Orst
Connecticut
Tama County
Towa
James
Iowa College
William James Wilken
Ottawa
Ont
William James Wilson
Canada
Feders! Department of Mines
Omaha
Neb
L. Gavin
Boston
Gavin Sald
Leroy
Rio Janeiro
Eugene Leroy
Detroy
Freigteser Dryden
Huare
Constantine
Greece
Venizelos
Lloyd George
Lucerne
Charles
Austria
Great Britain
France
Italy
Serbia
Vatican
Hungary
Smith Colby
District of Columbia
United States Supreme Court
Cardinal Gibbons
Gues
150 Christians Slain Amid Bedouin Raid Near Jerusalem
Dispatches report 150 Christians killed at Ajfun village northeast of Jerusalem by Bedouins. Additional notes mention an Italian naval officer among casualties from a Bedouin train raid near Damascus, with further fearsome war context across Europe and Russia.
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Catre
Berpt
Ajfun
Jerumalem
Haifa
Palestine
Damascus
New Rail and Water Rates Take Effect Across U S
Transportation charges on most railroad and steamship lines rose after midnight Wednesday as blanket schedules filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission set general freight rate increases of 33 1 8 percent, passenger fares up 20 percent, and 60 percent for Pullman services. Water carriers joined with joint rail water traffic rate hikes mirroring the rise. Steamship lines on the Atlantic coast Great Lakes and Gulf of Mexico raised all water rates 20 to 40 percent on freight and 20 to 33 1 8 percent on passengers following a Shipping Board action Tuesday night.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Atlantic Coast
Great Lakes
Gulf of Mexico
Shipping Board
National Park-to-Park Highway Dediated in Denver
The 4500 mile cross‑country route through eleven national parks in nine Western states was dedicated in Denver with Stephen J. Mather and Park Service officials, plus National Park‑to‑Park Highway and American Automobile Association representation. A twenty-five car tour of the highway followed the ceremony.
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Denver
Colo
Stephen J. Mather
Natonal Park Service
National Park-to-Park Highway Association
American Automobile Association
Soviet Armies Suffer Heavy Losses as Poles Advance
A late August dispatch reports 40 000 Russians killed and 80 000 captured or interned in Poland with 20 000 in East Prussia. General Tuchatschewski relieved for failure to take Warsaw. Leon Trotzky assumes command. Polish advances north of Ostrolenka and around Grodno shift the front, with fresh Bolshevik units redeployed from the Finnish border.
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Grodno
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Horodenka
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Bug
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Budenny
Ecton
Danzig
Edward W. Pickard
Ossowice
Red Army
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Lomza
Ostrilenks
Myszynies
Galicia
Lewburg
Lemburg
Cantrill takes over Cox campaign manager role
Washington reports Representative James Cantrill of Kentucky has assumed active management of Governor Cox's presidential bid. Cantrill left for New York and will confer with Carrill soon to discuss processes to ease out Campaign Manager White.
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Kentucky
Washington
James Cantrill
Cox
My. Cantril
New York
Cor
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Carrill
White
News Review Of Current Events Highlights World Turmoil
Edward W. Pickard surveys a vast scene: Polish victory over Russian invaders, Entente warnings to Poland, Wrangel advances in Crimea, Egypt moving toward independence with Britain likely to recognize it, European monarchist shifts, Irish peace conference push, suffrage ratification battles, and Cox’s charge of a $15 million Republican fundraising drive.
Ship tonnage still shows US gains but British lead endures
New York reports that US seagoing tonnage is about 10.4 million tons higher than in 1914, yet world steel steam tonnage remains 3.5 million tons below prewar expansion. Britain builds more gross tons but holds 731,000 fewer steamers than at war start, with US lead narrowing yet still behind Britain in steel tonnage.
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New York
United States
Great Britain
Britain
United Kingdom
World debt soars past two hundred billion dollars
New York reports world indebtedness has risen to 205 billion dollars from 44.9 billion at the start of World War I. Annual interest now about 9 billion, with per capita debt near 150 dollars. 1923 figures extrapolate substantial future payments as nations struggle under historical strife.
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New York
Germany
Belgium
Solomon Builds the Temple and its Dedication
A 1920 lesson notes Solomon's temple project from Mount Moriah, detailing King Hiram's supply of wood and stones, temple dimensions, dedication rites with the ark, Solomon's address and prayer, blessings on the people, and sacri cial celebrations, interwoven with reflections on devotion and service.
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Solomon
Hiram
Phoeni— Eign
JL Salomon
Mount Moreh
David
God
R. Solomon
Temple
Jerusalem
King
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