End in Sight for Coal Strike Talks in Scranton and Chicago
In Scranton and Chicago, negotiators for operators, miners, and independents press toward an amicable settlement during adjournment. Justice Gray adjourned the commission and tasked a three‑member committee to aid conciliation as talks center on wage data and broader disputes.
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Scranton
Gray
Coal Strike Commission
Burns
David Wilcox
The
Delaware & Fludson
Commission
Darrow
United Mine Workers
Parker, Clark and Watkins
Industrial wage increases spread through major firms
New York reports big wage hikes as industrials join railroads in raising pay. American Cigar Co raises 7,000 employees in Philadelphia Camden and Trenton by 15 percent. Baldwin Locomotive Works with 7,000 workers expected to announce soon. 35,000 weavers in the Kensington Philadelphia area to gain nearly 10 percent. If mirrored nationwide, additions could total hundreds of millions annually.
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New York
American Cigar Co
Philadelphia
Camden
Trenton
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Kensington-Philadelphia
Roosevelt Returns From South Trip Facing Southern Critics
President Roosevelt came back to Washington at 7 57 am pleased with his southern journey though Memphis greeted him coolly. He vows to keep a firm grip on federal officeholders in the region and insists negroes should not be the guiding race in states where they predominate. He believes much criticism stems from southern politicians misunderstanding him.
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Academy of Science
Chicago
Eshek
Gertrude Potter Daniels
Rand, McNally & Co
Senator Gorman
Maryland
Washington
Laurel
Peter DeVilla
Klondike
Pen Lemont
Santa Cruz
Cal
Nome
Europe
England
Semmering
Austrian
Alps
Tihe Adriatic
Russia
Austria
Switzerland
Salt Lake
Utah
Pine Valley
Washington County
Adelia Mulligan
J. Flood Wright
New York
United States
Roosevelt
Memphis
South
Czarovitch of Russia Given Hopeless Condition
Copenhagen reports the czarovitch’s illness is hopeless after weeks of danger. Dr Hutan of New York says medicine is useless. Final resort sends the royal patient to the Crimea for bracing air in hope of benefit.
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Copenhagen
Czarovitch
Russia
Hutan
New York
Crimea
Famine in China Reported as Rice Crop Fails
Dispatch from San Francisco reports a catastrophic rice crop failure in China and widespread famine. Villagers are starving and some husbands sell wives and children to obtain food amid rising hunger and economic distress.
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San Francisco
China
Death of George A. Henty noted in Weymouth
George Alfred Henty, renowned correspondent and author of over 70 boys books, dies in Weymouth England. Born December 8 1882 in Trumpington Cambridgeshire his work spanned travel warfare and American Indian themes. An odd incident recalls a live lizard emerging from Casimir Palzer’s stomach as he suffered stomach troubles since 1898.
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George A. Henty
Weymouth
England
George Alfred Henty
Henry
Trumpington
Cambridgeshire
Casimir Palzer
Palzer
Cure for female weakness and nervous headaches advertised
An advertisement praising Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery as cures for female weakness irregularity and related nervous headaches. It claims restoration of regularity relief from sleeplessness and run-down health, with testimonials from Mrs. Ervie E. Woodin and urging letters to Dr. Pierce.
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Pierce
Pinkham's Compound Advised by Chicago Club Secretary
Miss Rose Peterson urges young girls with sex specific pains to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She notes many become worn and listless without proper physical development and invites sick young women to write to Mrs. Pinkham in Lyon Massachusetts for free advice.
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Rose Peterson
Parkdale Tennis Club
Chicago
Lydia E. Pinkham
Irs. Pinkham
Fannie Kumpe
Chester St
Little Rock
Ark
Lydia Fe. Pinkham
Plague Outbreak Linked to Austrian Ship Crew in Odessa
An Austrian vessel arriving at Odessa brought plague death with a crew member buried in a Catholic cemetery. The ship's flag was raised at the grave and two seamen later died after visiting multiple saloons, with patrons in those places also infected. Reports of roaming ghosts at the Reiman residence in Racine, Wisconsin prompted local people to seek investigations.
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Odessa
Joseph Reiman
Racine
Wis
Sui
Frank W. Fiege
Reiman House
Mr. Reiman
Son
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