Chicago Women Form Unions Amid Labor Awakening
Special correspondence from Chicago reports a surge in female organizing as four hundred telephone workers and as many stenographers show willingness to unite. Writer assesses historical barriers, the sewing‑work sweatshops, and the need for better pay and conditions while urging action to lift women from poverty and exploitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Federation of Labor
Yraguely
Trades Assembly
Congressional Committee
Alliance
Elis
Spies in Chicago Strike Splitters Foiled by Their Own Plan
William A. Beck of the Chicago Waiters union testified that while posing as a detective agency employee he fed information on striker meetings to a firm paid nineteen dollars weekly. Beck said President Pomeroy of the union and Steward Glennie of the Union League club plotted to obtain details to justify arrest of Pomeroy and the strike committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
William A. Beck
Chicago Waiters’ Union
Pomeroy
Beck
London Tailors Propose Immigration Polices Amid Cheap Foreign Labor
A London correspondent reports that British and foreign tailors back a poll tax on foreign workers and tighter immigration. Destitute aliens once heading to the U S now come to England seeking funds to pass U S entry. Miners in Pennsylvania plan a public protest and new branch groups of the United Mine Workers of America form to fight short time, low wages, and dockage. The granite lockout debate in New York raises questions about trust and sincerity of both sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
New York
Europe
United States
England
Uncle Sam
Shamokin
Luzerne
Lehigh
Schuylkill
United Mine Workers of America
John McBride
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Electric Bitters and The Bey Salve Adverts
An 19th century advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a universal remedy for liver and kidney issues and various skin ailments, promising malaria relief and guaranteed satisfaction with refunds. Also promotes The Bey Salve for skin conditions and wounds, guaranteed or money back, with prices listed and seller T.K. named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hildebrand
T.K
Infant rescues self from cistern through courage
A 25 month old grandson of Lee Burdon in Greenwich street fell into a ten foot cistern. Clad in a suit and bonnet he floated with his clothing acting as a float. Grandmother and gardener improvised a tool with a pitch fork, lifting the child to safety. He remained calm, was dried and warmed, and boasted of swimming in the water. This Providence Journal item recalls a dramatic rescue and notes local reactions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Lee Burdon
Lee Burdon
Elmwood
Charley
Grandpa Burder
Greenwich Street
Peter
Providence Journal
Professor and maiden lady engage in urban flirtation
At a Harlem social, Professor Snore of Columbia hints he dislikes women while Miss Esmerelda Longcoffin teases him. The banter shows a witty clash of ages and humor in a city gathering. Also noted is a medical ad praising OLIVE Blossom, claimed to cure female weakness and sold by Daugherty Bros.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlem Avenue
Snore
Columbia College
Esmerelda Longcoffin
Esmerelda
Department of Ancient History
Texas Siftings
Daugherty. Bros
van Pelt
Craig
Meteor
Hillsdale
Iowa
Hessus
Chamberlain
Daugherty Bros
Indiana
Wm. I Moore
Homer City
Herrick Bros
Paly
M.S. Powers
East Des Moins
Wm. I. Moore
Old Time Elections in England and a Journalist Confession
The piece recounts riotous Westminster elections of 1695 with Montague and Fox versus Clarges, notes Middlesex and Brentford hustings, and hints how later Wilkes era politics grew from Brentford. It also features Julian Ralph’s confession about life as a newspaper editor and reporter in East New York Arlington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Westminster
Palace Yard
Charles Montagne
Lord Halifax
Stephen Fox
Charles James
Walter Clarges
Montague and Fox
Whitehall
Middlesex
Hampstead Hill
Parliament Hill
Admiral Russell
Brentford
Wilkes
Spelling Puzzles Plague Writers At Commonplace Words
The piece discusses writers wrestling with orthography doubts over familiar words. Questions about engulf versus ingulf, apal versus appal, fantasy versus phantasy, honied versus honeyed highlight daily spelling uncertainty even with dictionaries as reference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Commonwealth
Dr King's New Discovery and Other Patent Remedies
A collection of testimonials and claims for Dr King's New Discovery for consumption and colds, Mystic Cure for rheumatism, and English Spavin Liniment for horses. Personal endorsements from J B Wilson of Sharpsburg PA and Robert Barber of Cooksport PA cite dramatic cures and free trials, with distributors listed in Indiana, Homer City, Hillsdale and Craig area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.B. Wilson
Clay St
Sharpsburg
Dr. King
la Grippe
Robert Barber
Cooksport
Hildebrand
Hetrick Tos
Blairsville Growth Sparks Land Deals and Jobs Boost
A few good lots in Blairsville attract buyers with a small cash payment securing them and capitalizing on rising prices. Tin Plate work and new Glass Works near completion will employ 300 more people. The yearly payroll for public works stands at $750,000. Waite to Blairsville Land Improvement Co. for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blairsville
Waite
Bville Land Improvement Co
The Dancing Jim Crow and Other Oddities
A collage of curiosities and oddities from a late 19th century period, noting the Dancing Jim Crow toy valued at $75,000 a year to its inventor, various world facts on population, railways, and industry, plus a long anecdote about Jeff and Abe Bryant and a marriage pact. It includes medical ads and brief local notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Buenos Ayres
Jess
China
Jeff Bryant
Abe
Jeff
Covington Post
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Women and Unions
Lizzie M. Hones
Allee
Electric Bitters
Bucklen
Mogador
Atlantic
London Times
Bowery Drug Stores
Bowery
County Medical Society
New York Sun
Flirt
U.S. Gov’t
Zanzibar
Pemba
Africa
George Francis Train
Birkenhead
Japan
Panama
A. W. Walter
Waltersburg
Ill
Sadler
Alex McCullough
Markel
Westmorland Co
John McDonald
Sharpsville
Sophia Schambra
Wheeling
W. Va
Perry Cain
Frankfort Springs
Beaver Co
Mel Cullough
Woolford
Hetrick Bros
NEW York Weekly Tribune
Indiana Progress
N.Y
Weekly Tribune
Eer
United
Progress
A& Ordo
AT. Lowry & CO
Deslers IN
General de Merchandise
Church Street
Indiana, Pa
South Bend
Mil
H, Townsend & Son, Proprietors
Messrs. L Fryer
Magnolia
Bend
J. Telford
David Hughes
Pennsylvania College
Gettysburg
Mrs. Brown
Hall
Farias
F.J. Johnson
Confectionery
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