Eight Hour Strike Expands Across Chicago Area
Chicago workers walk out en masse as furniture, lumber, and iron trades join an eight hour demand. May Day planning centers on a new central governing body to coordinate actions, with reports of nationwide sympathy strikes and wage disputes at rail depots and packing houses. City is described as drifting toward chaos with mass walkouts and strategic pauses in leadership.
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Cutcaco
Chicago
George A. Shilling
Central Executive Committee
Rowan
Trades and Labor Assembly
Trades Assembly
Central Union
Gano
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Potter
Stone
Mfc
Potter API Stone
Burlington Feight House
Chicago & Alton
R. E. Pople
Wun
Giffert
Rothschild Furniture Works
St. Louis
Kansas City
Denver
Cincinnati
Furniture Junkers Union
June Manufacturing Company
TRON
Excelsior Iron Works
Link Belt Manufacturing Company
Lusceer
Lumber Men’s Union
New York
Bradstreet’s
Bradstreet
Kasaas City
Wyandotte
Law and Order League of Wyandotte
Prrissans
Inhor
Jeffs
Atlanta
Montgomery
Jefferson Davis
Davie
Hill Statute
Georgia
George Carroll
Beavey
Ark
Omaha
General Crook
John MelCullough
Waco
Tex
Rata
Louis Somerfield
Richard Lee
Washington
Frank Andrews
Carli Ple
Dis
Dolores
Mex
John. M. Howell
Missouri
Carthage
Plutus
Idaho Springs
Colorado
New York Stock Board
Union ‘Stock Yards
Kent & Co
George Parker
Kirksville
James Welker
Augustine
Mia
Charles Harper
United States
Drc. Thompson
Baldwin
Salvini
Booth
Academy of Music
Gladstone
Tronte
Ils
Stevens
Arkansas
Adam Greet
Legro
Kim Ines Hooday
Old Point Comfort A Historic Health Sanatorium
The Philadelphia Times recounts Capt John Smith and a 17th century voyage near Newport News, naming Old Point Comfort as a refuge. It argues the site became a premier health resort on neutral ground between North and South, with a climate that blends winds, gulf stream breezes, and invigorating air as a natural medicine for the lungs and constitution.
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Old Point Comfort
Philadelphia Times
John Smith
Virginia
Newport News
Point Comfort
United States
Tropics
Orie
Where Kissing Still Flourishes in London Sunday Schools
A ChristianMibile report from London condemnsSunday school entertainments described as promoting kissing games. Observers recount a sixhour event from six in the evening to midnight featuring a can can, kissing and hissing, and a drill called the army where pairs emulate military commands through embraces.
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London
Cdy
Paire
Sailors beg London aid for destitution and shelter
A plea from 33 destitute sailors in London requests help via the Destitute Sailors Asylum after crowded conditions at the Sailors Home. They report four months of hardship with two meals daily, scraps of bread, and no meat except Sundays, asking citizens to send funds or provisions to the asylum for shelter. Mull delivers ice cream citywide and Pendleaton's offers fresh vegetables.
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London News
London
Mull
Postal appropriation discussed with Brazil mail incident
Senate debate centers on post office appropriation to boost Central and South American trade and subsidies for American vessels. Hale cites a Brazil mail mishap on an English ship and a loyal American carrier’s response, while Brown supports liberal mail transport pricing. House deals with Mississippi river improvements and levee provisions amid multiple amendments.
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Senate
Washington
Post Office
Hale
Central
South America
United States
Brazil
Pernambuco
England
Slong
Rio Janeiro
Republican Party
Brown
South
Plumb
Telegraphic Grikes and Murders Across the Nation
A whirlwind telegraph sweep reports hangings in Beavey Arkansas and Washington for murders, with other executions and arrests noted. Union stock yard eight-hour demands appear alongside political and social upheavals, including Gladstone’s Catholic church ties denial and a horse birth anomaly.
Market Report: Wheat and Corn Trade in Soft Session
May wheat closed steady to firm as near term cables fluctuated. Trade mainly local with cautious buying. Juno wheat firm briefly at 80% then eased to around 79. Closing quotes showed mixed activity in corn and hog markets with overall quiet tone. Prices for flour and other staples listed, with various regional quotes and futures activity noted.
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Chicago
Gurcago
Wisconsin
Michigan
Erie
Blinneeet& Bakers
Pagetta
Ise
Kansas City Produce Market Update and Odd Lot Prices
The Indicator reports Fluor Market dail with scattered quotations across commodities. Includes corn receipts, hay bids, butter and poultry prices, and fruit and nut market notes with mixed up entries and several unclear figures.
Livestock market report from Kansas indicates slow cattle bids
Kansas City live market notes slow on lower grade cattle with some cows and heifers selling weak while best cows and yields held. Sheep receipts show market active with some higher quotes. Grain futures mixed with No 2 corn held near 38 cents cash and pork, lard prices cited.
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Kansan Corry
Meare
Shipiashia
Miata Sroraning Ag BU
St Louis Live Stock Market Report
OT Loma April 90 cattle prices show modest ease in bids across steers and cows. Sheep shipments total 1 900 with market activity steady. foreign exchange rates noted with call quotes for W days and for dei.
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Loma
Roecespta
Anna
Marget
Cholee
Hecespta
Bree Ios
Dei ‘Eae
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