Lenroot Predicts Labor Will End in Favor of Esch Bill
Watertown Wisconsin Senator Irvine L Lenroot opened his campaign with a speech attacking waste in wartime spending and arguing the Esch Cummins railway labor provisions favor labor and rail workers. He criticized La Follette and Wilsons league of nations. He defended the wage board and cited recent wage increases for railway workers as proof of the law’s effectiveness.
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Lenroot
Watertown
Wis
Irvine L. Lenrool
Robert M. la Follette
Wilson
League of Nations
Wilton
Washington
Senator la Follette
Congressional Record
Cumming
Senate
Tepe
Rate Trend
Sentle
Divorce Actions Plague Two Couples in 20th Century Case
Mrs. Mabel Cornwell files in diverse proceedings against G Z Cornwell claiming they were married in Napoleon Michigan and have not lived together for years with husband accused of failing to support wife and two children and desertion. Lulu Kindy sues for divorce from William Kines alleging refusal to speak and failure to support their two children in Appleton on a June date.
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Mabel
Cornwell
G. Z. Cornwell
Marriet
Napoleon
Mich
Lulu Kindy
Hnsband
William Kinés
Appleton
Wisconsin Rail Way Light and Power Raises One Man Cars Pay
A state conciliation board recommends wages for Wisconsin Railway Light and Power one man cars. The plan sets first six months differ ential of 0.41 per hour for one man operation and 0.46 per hour for two men. After six months the rates rise to 0.53 and 0.60 per hour respectively. Minimum work week is nine days four hours with eight hours on Sundays for regular runs, no overtime if average time remains under cop hours.
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Wisconsin
Lalway Light and Power
F. H. Hartwell
State Board
Railroad Commission of Wisconsin
Hartwell
Board of Conciliation
Railroad Commission
TA . Cheverell
Madison
Wis
la Croxsr
Wisconasia
Wisconsin Railway Light and Power Company
Board OF Conersation
St Lawrence waterway project debated before commission
William McCarroll warned the proposed St Lawrence waterway would not justify the immense cost, estimating expenditures between 200 to 500 million dollars while officials from the New York Chamber of Commerce urged feasibility study.
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T. Lawrence
York
St. Lawrence
Oshkosh Harvest Festival Celebrates Local Goods
Oshkosh Wis this week hosts a harvest festival exhibit with streets trimmed in commstilk sheaves pumpkins and season products. Special displays feature Oshkosh made and grown goods while a rural school hosts a health week program. Belgiun and Brazil sign trade agreement during King Albert of Belgians visit, Brussels dispatch notes.
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Wis
Ery
Belgium
Brazil
Ticleium
Albert
X Brussels Dispatel
Anarchists Arrested Near Aurellano Fort
Police and carabineers from Rome seized a group of anarchists after an attack on the Aurellano fort near here. A number of persons were found. most were raped, but the rest were arrested. Also mentions rubber supply shift from Dengil era to Far East and Roosevelt giving hot roast to Republican leaders.
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Rome
Aurellano
Thes
Roosevelt
Pim
Cox
Tole Bush
Blaine Declares Against Platform in Wisconsin Gubernatorial Bid
Platteville Wis opposition to Bed Cumming railroad law and League of Nations cited as reasons. Joan J Blaine Republican candidate for governor says he cannot support the party platform and will oppose national issues, warning of heavy spending by National Defense League and urging probe into campaign financing while pledging to root out covert influences in primaries and elections.
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Wis
League of Nations
Joan J. Blaine
Lenroot i
Blaine
State Committee
Republican National Campaign Committee
Republican State Central Committee
Republican Party
Elecaka
Voigt
Classon
Froar
Lampert
Browne
Congress
Beak
Cooner
Nelson
Third District
John ©. Fremont
Abraham Liteon
National Defense Teague
National Security League
Wall Street
Tam
National Defense League
Wisconsin
Ieague
Illinois Railroads Denied Rate Increase by Commission
The Illinois Public Utilities Commission rejected a proposed forty percent rise in freight rates by the railroads and ordered delays in implementation, as reported from Springfield. This decision affects UIL Railroads of Minots and related freight charges, shaping transportation costs statewide.
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Illinois
Springfield
UIL
Minots
State Public Utilities Commission
Clean Up in Green Bay Leads to Nineteen Arrests
In Green Bay Wisconsin a state wide clean up of vice conditions led to nineteen women being arrested last night four alleged as keepers of houses of ill fame Sheriff Heney Fanden Beurel and his deputies acted under Bax J Colton regional consultant of the division of general diseases of the United States Public Health Service
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Green Bay
Wis
Heney Fanden Beurel
Jis
Bax J. Colton
Division of
Fenereal Diseases
United States Public Health
Prohibition Agents Halt Liquor Shipments Out of Chicago
Federal and state prohibition officials halted shipments of Ihloxicai jing liquor moving to or from Chicago on Monday. Major AV Durryminle and Ralph W. Stone led the action aiming to curb a hootlageers ring said to have disposed of thousands of barrels of whiskey. Industrial alcohol could still move with a permit. Newark raid nets forty arrests for loitering near the whiskey curb amid reports of ongoing sales and storage in the wirehouse district.
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Chicago
AV. Durryminle
Ralph W. Stone
Newark
N. J
Seek Grave of Woman Buried Alive in New Jersey
Police prepared to search Manville New Jersey for the grave of a woman reported buried alive by her husband. They planned to take M Cucak who allegedly told friends that a boardinghouse proprietor beat his wife and buried her. Turkish advance halted into Armenian territory at Tiflis. Armenians stormed a Bolshevik mission threatening commissary Kirano. Cox itinerary announced for final campaign week with stops in West Virginia Kentucky Ohio and Indiana and Ohio.
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N. J
Manville
M. Cucak
Tiflis
Trans-Caucasia
Kars
Miverum
Armenia
Kirano
Cox
New York
West Virginia
Ashand
Cincinnati
Obio
Papolis
Akron
Ohio
Giiveee
Cermin J
Toledo
Strike In Mexico Ties Up Coal Mines In Nation
In Mexico City a strike by about twelve thousand coal miners has grown so grave that Provisional President De Tat Huerta is pushing for a quick settlement. If no deal is reached, estimates say over 100,000 workers in related industries could be laid off.
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Mexico City
Conhuits
de Tat Huerta
Chicago Wins New 6 Million Postal Terminal Contract
Contracts announced for a new six million dollar post office terminal for parcel post and transient mail at Union Station, expected to take eighteen months to complete. Sugar market gains follow Cuba moratorium, with New York banking support aiding financing and refined sugar rising a penny to 12 cents. Sylvia Pankhurst in London charged with publishing seditious literature.
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Chicago
Union
Cuba
New York
Detectives Seek Missing Toronto Man in Madison
Madison detectives pursue Ambruge Sinai of Toronto a multi millionaire who vanished on December 1 after depositing 1 million dollars in a Toronto bank. Detective Austin Mitchell traced leads through Milwaukee and Madison with a $350000 reward for information to locate him and his alleged kidnapper secretary Tahu Doughty.
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Madison
Wis
Ambruge
Sinai
Toronto
Tahu Doughty
Christian Party Seizes Majority in Austrian Assembly
Vienna reports nearly complete election returns showing the Christian party gain six seats from the Socialists and eight from the Greater German organization. If maintained, strength in Carinthia could yield a four seat majority. Count Ottokar Czernin von Chudenitz elected foreign minister in the monarchy era. The Greater German party defeat linked to insistence on alliance with Germany.
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Vienna
Christian Party
Socialist
Nacional Assembly
Ottokar Czernin von Chudeitz
Campaign Records And Senate Panel Probe Of Campaigns
A Senate committee investigates campaign expenditures and solicitations to enforce records before the election. It seeks full reports on all contributions over a threshold, pledges, and underwriting. The inquiry covers senatorial races and the League for Peace activities chaired by Taft, with referrals to possible violations of the Logan Act.
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T. Lugis
Senate Committee
ihvestTpany Campiaign
Murthin
Chiesa
Chicago
Witte Haye
Geng White
Democratic Agional
Reed
Moadar
Che League
Cnforce
Wiliam Howard Taft
League
Don M. Hunt
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