Telegraphers Strike Broadly Across the Nation
The Telegraphers strike began with hundreds of operators in Chicago and Washington leaving their desks at noon Washington time. Reports describe orderly exits, varied emotions, and immediate dispatch of strikers to hall gatherings while some offices continued limited ops.
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Membara
Brotherhood of Telegraphers
New
Yorke
Washington
Hamstone
Associated Press
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Associated
Uatoago
Chicago
Western Union
Mutual Union
Baltimore & Ohio
Uhlich’s
Board of Trade
Boston
New York
Toronto
Minneapolis
Brazl
Milwaukee
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Omaha
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
Boards of Trade
American Rapid Office
Speeniae
Illinois News Roundup of Trims and Accidents
A Riley ad hoc Illinois dispatch reports multiple incidents: Hogan and accomplices rob and assault a second crowd on a moving train near Greenfield with Patrick Knight killed and John Tincklen injured. a separate Illinois Central coach murder near Cobden. a fatal quarry accident in Le Mont killing John Cash and injuring others. a freight-train accident near Virden kills a child. a sleeper car homicide at Ashley. ice shower on Chicago lake. Mount Vernon lumber yard fire. a family feud fatality at Burnt Prairie. corn crop projections for 181000000 bushels. A O U W Grand Legion meeting at Galesburg elects McLean. a Waukegan death with suicide note. several local notices including a drowned boy near Granville and a liquor conviction in Greenville.
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Thomas Hogen
Frank Adams
B. F. Pritchard
Gohan Rudh Ward
St. Louis
Burlington & Quincy
Greenfield
Greene
County
Hogan
Patrick Knight
John Tincklen
Rockbridge
Thomas Hogan
Adams
Pritchard
Ryan
Fred Perry
Illinois Central
Cobden
Union County
Cairo
Perry
Eureka
Lemont
Cook County
John Cash
Thomas Ward
Mayo
Ireland
Ans Hanson
John Kehlman
Chicago
Funk
Shelbyville
Shelby
Jacksonville
Illinois Central Railroad
Ashley
Washington County
Areo
James Bell
Mount Vernon
Jefferson County
Burnt Prairie
White County
Douglass Gowdy
Buck Wiliams
Gowdy
Williams
Willams
Grand Legion of Select Knights
Ilinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Indiana
Galesburg
A.mclean
Macomb
P. I. Warner
Place i
Waukegan
Michael Maloney
Fred Fleischauer
Tanners’ Mutual Aid Society
Minnie Fleischauer
Manitowoc
Wis
B. F. Lurdy
Granville
Putnam County
Lion Silverman
Greenville
Bond County
United States
Young mariner recounts Atlantic voyage and river life
A Louisville Commercial report features a small German boy named Alex, nearly eleven, who recalls sailing the Cimbria and Servia disasters. He describes bone-deep fear, his task peeling potatoes, and his wish to return to the water while living on Jefferson Street with his mother guiding him.
Young Traveler and Captain Debate Life Saving Service
An eleven year old boy quizzes Captain Devon about a life saving station. He recalls twelve round trips over the ocean and his late father at sea, mentioning his mother in Louisville and a German upbringing. The boy claims to have sailed at eight on the steamship Servin between New York and Hamburg.
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Devon
Louisville
Germany
Servin
New York
Hamburg
Young Lady Itinerant Jeweler Works Bay Area Tricks
A neatly dressed young woman delivers jewelry and clock repair services door to door on Taylor street. She uses a sewing machine lathe, charges twenty five cents for a brooch fix, and claims ample work in cities with rising competition as more women enter the trade.
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Taylor Street
San Francisco Chronicle
Etiquette on a Transatlantic Steamer
A Broadway traveling firm notes eighty thousand Americans visit Europe yearly with an average spend around 2500 dollars. Ocean etiquette on luxury liners governs seating, dress, and captain’s social role as maritime society asserts status. Tales of frock coats and the purser’s authority illustrate rigid first class dining norms and shipboard decorum.
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Europe
New York
Bothnia
Alaska
Britannia
Arizona
Baltic
Spain
Neppens
Cunard Line
Liverpool
Airlie
Harlford Courant
Tree of Calvert Legacy Cut Down Spurs Memorial Sale
A historic mulberry tree at St Marys Balti more linked to Leonard Calvert and early Maryland religious history was felled recently. Relics survive and are offered for sale to fund a memorial church on the site. An English press note also reports a massive captive elephant in England weighing about five tons with a trunk circumference of three and a half feet.
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Pelican
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Dom
Cross
Epie Nogsan
Littis
Bill Nye
Detroit Free Press
Leonard Calvert
St. Mary's
Baltimore
Maryland
Jumbo
England
Tribune
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Pirrsnunoan
Indianapolia
Ind
Grant
Ussville
Western’ Union
Rennes
Illinois State“ News
Cimbria
Lewis Fuar
Alexander Fuar
America
Servia
Devan
Jefferson Street
Hancock
Mariner
Prato-Peeler
Alex
Atlantic
Traveler
Bates
East Liberty
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