Fowler currency bill favored by American Bankers Association
The American Bankers Association executive committee in New York discussed the Fowler currency bill. They favor the measure but deem action during this Congress unwise, citing public sentiment and the risk of radical currency change. They warn of a centralized bank and the return of a powerful banking monopoly, arguing the public is not ready for such shifts.
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American Bankers’ Association
New York
Banking and Currency Committee of
House
Toa
Executive Committee
Congress
United States
Europe
United States Bank
Meat Tariff Trust Protests Strict Home Market Monopoly
The article argues the meat trust uses a tariff to secure a home market advantage while exporting enormous beef quantities abroad. It cites eight months ending February shipments of 210 million pounds fresh beef and 73 million pounds canned and pickled, urging freer trade to let American consumers compete.
Congress urged to repeal cattle tariffs to ease meat scarcity
A political dealer argues that meat shortages are artificial, citing cold storage holdings and a proffered solution: repeal cattle tariffs and allow more beef to reach consumers. The New York World backs increased supply as the remedy, urging Congress to act to provide relief.
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Ballet Dus
Congress
Trust
Combine
New York World
Beveridge Blames Prosperity On Partisanship
Senator Beveridge argues Republican claims credit for national prosperity misstate the country s resources and conditions noting the abundance of soil climate rains and favorable location. He cautions against attributing prosperity solely to party policy and urges recognition of broader factors shaping the economy.
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Providence Gate
Beveridge
United States
Republic
Morning Stars and Providence in a Political Eclipse Claim
The quote frames natural conditions as reflecting Providence, implying credit diverted to Providence while the Republican party is accused of attempting to eclipse it. The line presents a contentious, theologically tinged political critique without detailing events or sources.
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Sons of God
Providence
Grovenor and Griscom Split Over Ship Subsidy Bill
Representative Grovenor argues the ship subsidy plan does not aid the consolidation. Griscom and Cramp clash with Grosvenor, warning the merged firms would get subsidies for new ships. Frye's report states Griscom’s company would receive about $1.71 million yearly.
Farmers Not Growing Rich Amid Farm Labor Wages
The 1899 U S farm laborer earned about 1.01 dollars per day without board or 0.77 with board, totaling roughly 293 dollars per year for agricultural workers. The text argues profits to farmers aren’t disproportionately large and criticizes the beet trust as failing to blame farmers.
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United States
Beet Trust
Tariff Reform Seen As Remedy For Monopolies
The speaker urges frank discussion of tariff reform and argues that revising the Dingley bill could curb monopolistic combines and extortion enabled by high tariffs. He suggests Republicans should apply the principle broadly to promote fairer competition.
Absolute Autocrat of Pennsylvania Republican Power
The piece condemns the Republican organization in Pennsylvania as an absolute autocracy. It accuses a veteran leader of forty years of public plunder and public expense while offering no public service. It argues the party dominates city and state government through influence and political machine control.
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Quay
Pennsylvania
Leutenants
Strike at the Cagee and Trust Domination Debate
The text argues against trust domination and extortion under imperfect laws. It cites Attorney General Knox as capable of raising public satisfaction before addressing tariff and trust issues. It recalls Havemeyer’s admission that protective tariffs foster trusts to defend tariff policy.
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Knox
Havemeyer
Great Augar Trust
Congress
Beveridge Returns to a Funston Like Role in Commerce Debate
The senator is described as emulating Funston, promising a hands off stance toward American activities while criticizing trusts. The proposed department of commerce is viewed as a tool to curb monopolies, but the public faces meat and food supply pressures. The remarks suggest a clash over regulation and government reach in the administration.
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Funston
Senator Beveridge
Department of Commerce
Trusts Can Be Suppressed In Time
Abiding faith in institutions sustains belief that Americans can halt the trust business when aroused. If monopolistic extortion continues a few months longer the anti trust issue may overshadow all others and sweep the country. Political managers should listen closely.
A Protection That Lets Robbery Drive Prices Abroad
The article argues that protection enables the meat trust to export products at lower prices abroad and collect drawbacks on hides. It claims tariffs shield the trust while U S consumers bear higher costs, portraying tariff policy as a theft from the American people driven by monopoly interests.
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United States
No One Above Criticism in Democracy
The passage asserts that the nation has not reached a state where governmental acts from any party are sacred and untouchable, warning against surrendering liberties and underscoring a commitment to accountability across administrations.
Butchers Urge Congress Action Against Beef Trust
The butchers complain of the beef trust and call for restrictive legislation by Congress. They ask why Congress does not remove the protective wall that keeps the trust firmly entrenched and impregnable.
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Congress
A Latean in Political Econory Lesson
An American newspaper note cites an Ottawa firm ad claiming coffee costs 60 cents a pound after the wartime revenue tariff. The jingle suggests a political economy lesson about tariff effects and consumer prices. The piece reads as a critique of price signaling in wartime taxation rhetoric.
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Washington, D. C
Styles of the Day lingerie gowns and lace fashions
The article surveys Paris inspired women’s wear focusing on lingerie gowns and veiling with drawn-work. It describes a white veiling gown with broad drawn-work bands, a white gauze bodice embroidered by hand, green taffeta sash, and an unlined bodice over a white taffeta slip. It notes lace on wedding dresses and evolving dress trims, and offers color guidance advising brown, blue, and green choices for different complexions and hair. It also mentions lilac house gowns with chinchilla trim and yellow lace accents.
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Paris
Parla
Train Trims Options Include Satin or Brocade Train
The article notes the train may be crafted from plain white satin or from brocade, outlining material choices for the formal garment with emphasis on texture and aesthetic.
Fruoy Vale Evening Wear Embroidered Taffeta Bolero
A description of an evening gown in pearl gray taffeta with open work embroidery. The garment is made over rose silk, with an upper bolero section edged by pearl gray gauze tulle and described as Neveste Blousen.
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Fruoy Vale
Neveste
Brown is the color chosen with greatest care
A noted artist and critic of Uings sartorial advises that no color should be chosen with more care than brown, emphasizing its prominence in style.
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Uings
Tucks Headed by a Pack of Lace Arranged in Point
A vivid description notes lace in a tucks ensemble arranged into a pointed elegant fashion. The line hints at a refined decorative detail characteristic of the period style.
Wool Veiling and Taftern Gowns From Paris Styles
Two distinguishing gowns recently from Paris combine wool veiling and thin taffeta. Skirts are veiling with coats in the Souin XV style in taffeta. Cling lace is used profusely and bows appear in long loops tied tightly in the center.
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Paris
Fashion Notes on Spring Gowns and Accessories
Timely style guidance surveys spring fashion with features like pale blue afternoon gowns, white silk and cloth outfits, jet accents on black net, and lace collars. It notes Irish, gulpure and Venetian lace, horsehair braids, and galloons on wool robes, highlighting practical outdoor ensembles and demure dress trends.
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Ono
Harbor Poem Fragment by Montgomery In Ainspo
A fragmentary verse depicts a harbor scene at twilight with imagery of violet hue and sails homeward bound. The narrator invokes wind, dunes, and Druid pines while a tranquil sea and purple wine-like mist frame boats returning to shore as darkness gathers.
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Montgomery
Ainspo
Good Showing by Cigarmakers Union Report
George W. Perkins presents the Cigarmakers International Union annual financial report for 1901. It details strike, death, widow, and out of work benefits, member loans, and total transactions of over 1.06 million dollars with a year end treasury of 821 thousand. Benefits and a common fund have grown since adoption, totaling 6.19 million over 22 years, with 450 thousand paid last year and sizable regional allocations to Montreal Dayton and Philadelphia.
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Clgarmakers’ International Union
George W. Perkins
Perking
International Union
Montreal
Canada
Dayton Union
Philadelphia
Perkins
Ironworkers leader brokers San Francisco pact union merger
Frank Buchanan president of the Bridge and Structural Ironworkers International Union returned from the west after resolving a trade jurisdiction dispute in San Francisco. He found a local group, the Derrickmen Engineers and Structural Ironworkers Union, affiliated with the Building Trades Council and seeking to control all structural iron work. Buchanan proposed and effected an amalgamation, creating Local Union No. 31. He is noted in eastern labor circles and was elected International president at the Buffalo convention last October.
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Frank Buchanan
Bridge and Structural Ironworkers’ International Union
San Francisco
Buchanan
Golden Gate
Derrickmen, Engineers and Structural Ironworkers’ Union
Building Trades Council
Bridge and Structural Ironworkers
Bridge and Structural Ironworkers’ Union
Chicago Union
Old Building Trades Council
Indiana
South
Chicago
Buffalo
Trade Autonomists Gain AFL Victory Over Brewery Unions
The AFL executive council ordered United Brewery workmen to revoke all charters inviting engineers and firemen in breweries. The Louisville convention granted brewery workers jurisdiction over all brewery personnel, fueling open warfare in Cincinnati. The decision pleases engineers and firemen unions and may resolve a brewing unions dispute with Chicago AFL.
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Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
United Brewery Workmen
Loulaville
Cincinnati
Brewers’ and Malters
Chicago Federation of Labor
Woman Labor Leader Elizabeth Rodgers Elected Chief Ranger
Mrs. Elizabeth Rodgers of Chicago, a prominent figure in labor circles, was recently elected chief ranger of the Woman's Catholic Order of Forestore. She joined the order of St. Crispin in 1878, helped integrate into the Knights of Labor, and was elected master Workman in 1880.
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Elizabeth Rodgers
Chicago
Order of Forestore
United States
Order of St. Crispin
Knights of Laborale
Cleveland honors first woman to hold assembly post
The free woman who became 20 honored served two terms as assembly head and was elected general organizer at the 1883 Cleveland special convention. Her background as a girlhood theater worker aided her in organizing the order that just honored her. Her husband is an iron molder.
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Cleveland
Rodgers
Wright Was longtime Chicago Musicians Leader and Organizer
Eugene L Wright longtime Chicago Federation of Musicians and Musicians' Assembly official. Born near Rutland Vermont, moved to Wisconsin in 1852, served in Civil War bands. Active in labor movement since 1886, held secretary and financial secretary roles, helped amalgamation of unions, re elected for a fourth year as secretary.
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Eugene L. Wright
Chicago Federation of Musicians
Green Mountains
Rutland
Wisconsin
Fifth Wisconsin Volunteers
Aid Iron Brigade
Chicago
Musicians’ Assembly No
K. of L
Porto Rico court upholds labor leader sentence
The Porto Rico Supreme Court released Santiago Ingestas, president of the Federation of Workmen, after he was sentenced on December 12 to three years four months and eight days for conspiring to raise labor prices. Appellate counsel argued constitutional rights to assemble peacefully. The public prosecutor, unexpectedly, supported the defense and urged dismissal.
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Aeleaae
Inglesias
Supreme Court of
Porto Rico
Santiago Ingestas
Federation of Workmen of
Inglealas
Union reorganization tour across New England and beyond
Work of Organization led by B L Smyth and H W Steinbian has spent three months reorganizing Allied unions across the east from Louis to various cities. Combines formed in Holyoke Springfield Brockton Worcester Providence Hartford Bridgeport Norwalk as two weeks more are planned.
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B. L. Smyth
H. W. Steinbian
National Building Trades Council
Louis
East
Holyoke
Springfield
Brockton and
Worcester
Mass
Providence
R. I
Hartford
Bridgeport
Norwalk
German purchases patent rights threaten large scale telephony shift
The German government acquires patent rights covering most of Europe except Britain and France for an automatic switchboard made in Chicago that could replace a 40,000 instrument telephone system. Many operators may lose work as one person can manage an entire system.
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Germany
Europe
Great Britain
France
Chicago
Cleveland Carpenters Win Wage Advance
Cleveland carpenters secure a two and one half cent hourly increase effective May 1. The contract with contractors requires employment of union men only and sets a minimum wage of 35 cents an hour. About 2,000 workers benefit.
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Cleveland Carpenters
Arbitration awards Dig carpenters strike gain 85 cents an hour
The State Board of Mediation and Arbitration at St. Joseph Missouri after two days of evidence awarded the Dig carpenters 85 cents per hour. The union had demanded 37 12 cents. Both sides were well satisfied with the result.
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State Board of Mediation and Arbitration
St. Joseph
Unity Effort Backed by National Building Trades Council
An alliance effort aims to concentrate energy and interest of all allied building trades and local unions into a single central organization with backing from the National Building Trades Council of America.
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National Building Trades Council of America
Allied Building Trades
March Sets Record For AFL Charter Applications
Secretary Frank Morrison of the American Federation of Labor reports March as a banner month with 147 charter applications received. The record highlights the AFL's expanding organizing drive and growing union presence across industries.
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Mareh
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Wages of Puddlers Increase at York Rolling Mill
In York Pennsylvania the puddlers wage ratio rose to 4.25 dollars per ton starting April 15 marking the highest pay level yet in the York mill. The 25 cent per ton raise lifts earnings and reflects city industrial labor adjustments reported in the period.
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York
York Mill
Iron Molders Seek Uniform Wagon Rate in Pittsburg and Allegheny
Iron molders in Pittsburg and Allegheny demand a uniform wagon rate of 8 dollars per day, up from their current 2.76 dollars. The new scale is set to take effect May 1.
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Pittsburg
Allegheny
Move to Better Conditions Brothers Seek Higher Wages
The Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners in Philadelphia plans a concerted push for better conditions including wage increases and shorter hours. Meanwhile in Fall River Massachusetts, masons and bricklayers postponed a proposed strike and accepted eight hours after May 5.
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Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Philadelphia
Masons and Bricklayers
Fall River
Mass
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American Bankers Association
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Grest Central Bank
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Monn
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