Supreme Court to Rule on Adamson Law Test Case
Arguments over the constitutionality of the Adamson eight hour workday law opened in the Supreme Court Washington. The Missouri Oklahoma and Gulf railroad case led the call as justices consider if the act is valid or void with global impact on railroads and labor contracts.
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Associated Press
Washington
Supreme Court
Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad
Department of Justice
Hook
Kansas City
Walker D. Hines
Arthur Miller
John G. Johnson
Philadelphia
John W. Davis
E. Marvin Underwood
G. Carroll Todd
Frank Hagerman
United States
Francis M. Wilson
Alexander New
Henry C. Ferris
Missouri, Oklahoma
Adamson
House
Senate
Wilson
Missouri
Oklahoma
Gulf
Carranza’s Niece Credits Mexico’s Dignity and Reforms
A Mexican figure asserts Mexicans are not bandits and discusses reforms under her uncle, including rural school expansion, land and political equality laws, and clashes with the cientificos aided by Villa. She recalls Villa’s tactics, US Civil War style, and notes cultural life in Mexico City with dance, film, theatre, and Chapultepec park enjoyments.
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New York
Mexico City
Puerto de Vera Cruz
Salon Rojo
Arbeu
Conservatory
Metropolitan Opera House
Mexico
Poland
Worth Attention of Women Kidney relief from Foley Pills
Fay Shelburg of All, Missouri, suffered kidney trouble for two years. She found no relief until using Foley Pills. She reports two 60c boxes cured her. Sold at Mann Drug Company.
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Fay Shelburg
Foley
Mann Drug Company
Little Chance for Barring Strong Drink from Mexico
Queretaro Mexico Jan There seems little possibility that a clause providing prohibition in Mexico will be included in the new constitution delegates to the constitutional congress consider prohibiting intoxicants and gambling but Article 4 carries no prohibition. Delegates expect to finish the draft by February 1 under General Carranzas decree. The election for president likely on the first Sunday in March with the winner to take office April 1.
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Associated Press
Queretaro
Mexico
Constitutional Congress
Congress
Hansom Cabs Return to London Streets During War
London Jan 8 under wartime stress hansom cabs again frequent the capital streets the growler remains the station cab for country folks the gondola of London is in a museum the hansom was patented December 23 1834 by John Aloysius Hansom who sold the patent in the 1850s for fifty thousand dollars an architec t who later built churches in Ragland
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Associated Press
London
London Museum
John Aloysius Hansom
Ragland
Second Son of King Gustave Writes a Book of Poetry
Prince William, second son of King Gustave, publishes a 32 poem volume titled Slaeckta Fyrar Darkened Beacons. Many verses were written during his command of a torpedo boat destroyer. His prior works include Indian Love Poems and Where the Sun Shines.
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Associated Press
Stockholm
Sweden
Prince William
Gustave
L. Hope
Warship and Regimental Mascots Given to London Zoo
The London zoo receives seven hundred warship and regimental mascots left by dominions to await their owners from the fighting zones. The menagerie includes a monkey that survived Heligoland and Dogger Bank battles and bears from Canada and the Rocky Mountains, with other creatures such as deer slated for the peace procession if they survive. Bears from the Rocky Mountains are housed on the Mappin Terrace and feel at home.
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London
London Zoo
Dominions
Heligoalnd
Doggerbank
Canada
Rocky Mountains
Mappin Terrace
Trial cold remedy offer from Foley Co
A clipped advertisement invites readers to mail five cents with name and address to Foley Co for a trial package of Cones a and Tar Compound and Sevo Foley Cathartic Folens, promising cold and croup relief.
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Foley & Co
Sheffield Ave
Foley Cathartic
Mann Co
Prohibition League seeks record Raleigh convention attendance
North Carolina Anti-Saloon League leader R L Davis urges pastors and Sunday schools statewide to send delegates to the January 15 16 1917 convention in Raleigh. Bryan and Weakley among speakers as church leaders asked to back a stricter liquor law including shipping bans and monthly communion wine limits.
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R. L. Davis
North Carolina
Anti-Saloon League
Raleigh
Davis
North Carolina Anti-Saloon League
William Jennings Bryan
S. D. Weakley
Birmingham
Ala
J. Sidney Peters
Virginia
Anti- Saloon League
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
General Assembly
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Chihuahua
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R. E. Andrews
High Point
N.C
Piedmont Building and Loan Association
W. C. Idol
Wachovia Bank & Trust CO
Sanitary Fountain Service
Arctic Coal
Arctic Ice & Coal Co
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