Pennsylvania Urges Voluntary Labor Boards to Defuse Strikes
Harrisburg officials call for a state wide network of nine member boards with industry and labor representatives to resolve disputes quickly. Labor secretary Lewis G Hines notes existing boards in Scranton and Philadelphia have produced good results and cites across the table discussion as effective.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Lewis G. Hines
State Secretary of Labor and Industry
Hines
Scranton
Philadelphia
Meeting Notice for January 14 at Leonard Street
News of Colored People announces a meeting at 7 30 PM Tuesday January 14 at the home of Mr and Mrs W L McDonnell 1300 Leonard Street. The group invites members to attend the net meeting on January 17 at 8 o'clock.
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Net
W. L. McDonnell
Leonard Street
J. C. Club to Meet and Church Group Plans Dinner
The Teachers College Club will meet with Mrs. R. G. Mason at 1201 Downing Street Saturday at 8 p.m. All members urged to attend. The North Side Willing Workers Club of St. Stephen A.M.E. Zion Church met at Mrs. Mamie Williamson's home on Underhill Avenue. Mrs. Della Hoover presided. Plans were made for a covered dish supper in the church dining room on Friday evening.
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J. C. Club
Teachers College Club
R. G. Mason
Downing Street
ST. Stephens
North Side
Willing Workers Club
St. Stephen A.M.E. Zion
Mamie Williamson
Underhill Avenue
Della Hoover
Distinguished Editor Dies in Alabama after Brief Illness
Grover C. Hall, 1928 Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial writing, longtime editor and part owner of the Montgomery Advertiser, died after a short illness. He would have turned 53 tomorrow. Funeral at 3 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church with burial in Greenwood Cemetery. He was born January 11, 1888, in Haleburg, Alabama.
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Montgomery
Ala
Grover C. Hall
South
Hall
Montgomery Advertiser
Donald C. MacGuire
First Presbyterian Church
Greenwood
Ku Klux Klan
Capt
W. T. Sheehan
Advertiser
Haleburg
Henry County
Alabama
Army traffic corps politer yet tougher at Fort Dix
On Fort Dix New Jersey the military police signalled Capt. Ernest Steading to halt as he left the post to catch a train. The MP, after a sharp salute, asked where he thought he was going, and the captain apologized for speeding before continuing.
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Fort DIX
N. d
Army
M. P
Ernest Steading
Steading
Mountain Town Fire Destroys Business District
A large part of Newland Newland North Carolina business district was burned when a fire started in a cafe at 8 30 last night. The flames swept along Tittle Street for nearly an hour before aid arrived from Spruce Pine Boone and Elizabethton Tennessee. No casualties were reported but property damage ran into thousands of dollars.
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Newland
Tittle Street
Spruce Pine
Boone
Elizabethton
Tenn
Educator Paul Barringer Dies At 83 In Charlottesville
Dr. Paul Brandon Barringer, 83, former chairman of the University of Virginia faculty and president of Virginia Polytechnic Institute from 1907 to 1912, died yesterday at his home near the university campus in Charlottesville Virginia.
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Charlottesville
Paul Brandon Barringer
University of Virginia
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Chicago Striking City Workers Reach Settlement
Chicago ends a short strike after 5,194 municipal employees return to work. Union and city officials agree on a wage scale near the city’s target, as Mayor Edward J. Kelly hails the accord. The city council approves a 1941 budget of about 54.3 million dollars, down 2 million from 1940, with roughly 500 thousand in pay cuts.
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Chicago
Edward J. Kelly
Lessons in English and Word Study Notes
A compact vocabulary lesson lists misused phrases mispronunciations and common misspellings. It highlights selecting furniture avoiding wrong forms and shows examples including revivify and revive usage with a quote from Sir W Hamilton.
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Sir W. Hamilton
Look and Learn: questions and answers on law and citizenship
The text answers five queries: axorbcide defined as a husband murdering a wife, Moham medans God named Allah, foreign versus alien distinction with birth versus allegiance, naturalized citizens ineligible for U S presidential offices, and cities at Panama Canal ends being Colon and Panama.
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United States
Atlantic
Pacific
Panama Canal
Colon
Panama
Winter driving deaths rise in U S north and south regions
Fatal auto accidents increase 40 percent in the northern half of the United States during winter and 20 percent in the southern half, according to a regional traffic study.
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United States
Relief At Last For Your Cough Creomulsion Ad
Promises quick relief by acting directly on bronchial mucous membranes to loosen phlegm and soothe irritation. Encourages asking a druggist for Creomulsion with money back if the cough does not improve.
Jail Saved Man In St. Pierre Disaster
The article describes Martinique’s volcanic island formation and Mt Pelee near St Pierre. It notes initial calm before the 1902 signs of activity and the fatal eruption on May 8 when a deadly surge emerged from the crater.
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St. Pierre
Martinique
Mt. Pelee
Dizzy doings across the Carolinas and a deadly island eruption
A cornucopia of oddities and crimes from Asheville to Charleston shows thefts, a bag of chickens, a jealous fire, counterfeit currency, and a chain store style whisky operation. A St Pierre eruption devastates Martinique as 28 000 die, leaving a ruined city and lava dust. Uncle Ray promises a travel note tomorrow.
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Charlotte
Carolinas
Asheville
Lexington
Chapel Hill
Lonnie Jackson
J. N. Smith
Dunn
Wilson
Walter Mercer
Court House
Mercer
Treasury Department
Washington
Charleston
Anderson
Reva Hodges
Spartanburg
St. Pierre
Martinique
Bassano Freighter Torpedoed far northwest of Ireland
Ellerman Wilson freighter Bassano of 4843 tons reported torpedo damage about 500 miles northwest of Ireland. Mackay radio relayed at 11:09 a.m. EST the ship was torpedoed at 57 24 north 18 40 west. Bassano, 401 feet, three years old, built for ice laden seas, last sailed New York December 31.
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New York
Ellerman Wilson
Ireland
Canada
England
Mackay Radio
Population density figures by country and recent territorial gains
The Netherlands shows about 680 people per square mile while Great Britain has 480. Germany is cited with densest expansion including recent territorial acquisitions at less than 340 per square mile.
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Netherlands
Great Britain
Germany
Surrey Woman Donates To Lifeboat Service Continually
A Surrey woman who saves all her pennies for Britain’s lifeboat service has just sent the Lifeboat Institution 480 dollars and over two years has contributed 5 dollars.
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Surrey
England
Britain
Lifeboat Service
Lifeboat Institution
Medicines stockpile worth over 300000 dollars in Iraq
Iraqi authorities report an emergency medicine stash valued above 300000 dollars stored for public health use. The inventory covers medicines and drugs intended for rapid deployment during crises. The announcement notes careful safeguarding and potential distribution to hospitals and clinics as needed.
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Iraq
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