Labor unrest and hiring surges across U S industries
Labor actions and resumed work dominate reports from multiple states. Over 2000 idle workers in Wheeling area return to jobs. 500 St Louis plumbers strike over 70 cent wage cut. Pepperell Biddeford mill expansion. Lorain Mant at National Tube back to 5000-6000 workers. Akron rubber firms add 250 workers. Boston Rubber Shoe Co Halden plant over 1000 workers return after eleven weeks. Central Federated Union calls for labor party unity and probes graft. Grand Jury indicts unions in New Orleans. Champ Clark in Congress cites Employers Liability bill prospects with Speaker Cannon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cabinetmakers’ Union
St. Paul
Minneapolis, Minn
Wheeling
W. Va
St. Louis
Pepperell Manufacturing Company
Biddeford
Central_Federated Union
New York City
New Orleans
National Tube Company
Lorain
Ohio
Central Federated Union
Murray Hit Lyceum
B. F. Goodrich Company
Akron
Fells
Boston Rubber Shoe Company
Ilalden
Mass
Champ Clark
Congress
Cannon
The Thunderer Name From London Times Story
London Letter notes how the Times earned the nickname Thunderer after a leading article denounced a mud-splashing rider, allegedly the Duke of Cumberland, and an apology used the phrase we thundered out, which public fancy then adopted as a moniker. A stray note mentions elastic lead as a fantastical claim about momentary rebounds during the contegga.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times
Duke of Cumberland
London
New York Herald
Six Die at Nyack Grade Crossing Tragedy
A train collision at a West Nyack crossing in Spring Valley, New York killed six members of prominent local families and injured several others after a horse drawn wagon returning from a basketball game was struck by an Ontario and Western express. Victims include George Reith, Nelson May, Bertha and Edith Singer, George Shinn, and Jeanette Palmer. gate-tender witness disputes fault as investigators review the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spring Valley
N. Y
George Young
Nyack
West Nyack
Ontario and Western Express
Hudson County Hospital
Hoboken
N. J
George Reith
Nelson May
Bertha Singer
Edith Singer
George Shinn
Jeanette Palmer
Warren Palmer
Henry Dieteren
Mary Edith Bird
Governors fines and jail terms for trust officials debated
In Chicago Governor Hughes urges jail sentences for corporate officials and argues fining trust executives shifts the burden to the public. He joins a national dialogue on corporate accountability as peers discuss law and governance.
Bishop Satterlee Dies at 76 in Washington
Rt. Rev. Henry Yates Satterlee, Bishop of Washington and a leading Protestant Episcopal Church figure, died at his home 1407 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest on Saturday morning at 7 30 after pneumonia contracted in New York. His condition had been serious for days and shocked friends and church colleagues. His immediate family gathered at his bedside as the end neared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Henry Yates Satterlee
Protestant Episcopal Church
Massachusetts Avenue Northwest
New York
Satterlee
Murdered Man's Hoard in York Found After Killing
Detectives and officials probing the will of David Heckert, murdered a week ago in York Pennsylvania, recovered about 3200 dollars in old bills and gold beneath papers. A cardboard box held a white duck bag with 579 dollars in gold coins, some stained, with a label reading Saved by me from my earnings in Memphis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
David Heckert
Memphis
Receivers Appointed In Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Case
Temporary receivers for Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company were appointed by Justice Platzek in New York State Supreme Court on the application of Attorney General Jackson. The company is now under receivers appointed by the United States Court upon a policyholders committee's request. Judges Joseph J. O'Donohue and Joseph P. Day named as Platzek receivers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Insurance Company
New York
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
Justice Platzek
New York State Supreme Court
Jackson
United States Court
Platzek
Joseph J. O’donohue
Joseph P. Day
Lord Brougham
Ju Np
Justice Brewer
Supreme Court
Munsey
Japan replies to American immigration memorandum
An early 20th century dispatch notes Japan’s response to a January 26 memorandum on Japanese immigration to the United States handed to Ambassador O'Brien. The report also covers German talks on oil monopoly moves, Azores tremors near Horta, and various imperial era political maneuvers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
United States
O’brien
Standard Oil Company
Horta
Azores
King Peter of
Servia
New York
Butt pleads guilty in wreck of People's Bank case
Alexander B. Butt, cashier of the Portsmouth based People's Bank, pleads guilty to three indictments. He must repay $47,500 of the $252,066 shortage and receives a three year sentence with a $7,184 fine. Additional deposits totaling $1,682 carry fines of double those amounts. All other indictments are dropped. One coffered repayment of $20,000 arrived from a Mrs Butt relative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Alexander B. Butt
People’s Bank
Portsmouth
Bain
Richmond
Virginia Corporation Commission
Butt
Virginia
Stupp
Washington
Griffin
Judge opposes wage cuts at Sea Board Air Line Railway
Richmond special report: Judge Peter C. Pritchard of the United States Circuit Court voiced opposition to the proposed wage reductions for Sea Board Air Line Railway workers. He, in conference with receivers counsel, urged a city meeting with the road’s receivers and chief executive to review the matter. Receivers are Judge Pritchard’s appointees. The cut aligns with a broader retrenchment policy sweeping Virginia railroads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Peter C. Pritchard
United States Circuit Court
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Pritchard
Virginia
Norfolk Man Takes Own Life in Boarding House
Carroll 46, found dead in his room after ingesting laudanum and arnica. An unknown man, believed from Elizabeth City, NC, had been in Norfolk three days. A five cent piece was the only money on him. Pinned to the headboard were verses stating his intent to end the struggle and kill himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Carroll
Pool
Elizabeth City
N. C
Measles Outbreak Hits Woman's Normal School Farmville
An epidemic of measles at the Woman's Normal School in Farmville leaves fifty students in the infirmary with several deaths in the past week. Cases of laryngitis reported. the institution remains open as the illness spreads amid serious conditions among patients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Woman's Normal School
Farmville
Saw mill accident claims life in Stafford County
James Blackwell employed at Jacobs and Humphreys saw mill in Stafford County was caught between the head block and a revolving saw while moving lumber. He suffered the severing of his right leg and right arm and died within minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredericksburg
James Blackwell
Jacobs & Humphreys
Stafford County
Construction Company Assigns Norfolk
The Atlantic Engineering and Construction Corporation led by A C Freeman Jr and Burruss Corprew as secretary assigned to the latter on trustee. It works viaduct construction for the Virginian Tidewater Railway at Pine Beach terminals. liabilities and assets are not made public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Atlantic Engineering and Construction Corporation
A. C. Freeman, Jr
Lavinia Geil Dies After Appendicitis Operation
Staunton obituary notes Miss Lavinia Geil daughter of Dr William Bell Mount Sidney died at King's Daughters Hospital after appendicitis operation She is survived by her father four brothers and five sisters Charlottesville obituary reports C Julian Paull druggist of R Link Co died of stroke Paull born in Charlottesville forty four years ago.
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Sands Smite
P. Nottingham
Mumford Banking Co
Reai
Burgler Insurance
OLD Dominion Line
Norfolk, Gloucester
Mathews
Wortsmouth
North St
Bay Line
Old Point
Philpot’s
East River
Hicks
Diges
Reave’s
Ware River
Hockley
Auburn Wharf
North River
Dixondale
Government Wharf
Norflk
Villa
Severn Wharf
Severn River
Berkley
Brandon
Granby Street
Atlantic Hotel
B. L. Bugg
Norfolk, Va
Chesapeake Steamship Company
Chesapeake Line
Columbia
Augusta
Old Point Comfort
Baltimore
York River
West Point
Richond
Gloucester Point
Clements
Clay Bank
Allmond
Ight -Street
Baltimore Street
Arthur W. Robson
Light and Lee Streets
Reuben Foster
E. J. Chism
T. H. McDaniel
T Gen
M. S. Foster
Sibley Bros
A. M. Marchant
Journal Building
Leslie C. Garnett
Middlesex
Loucester
F. Theo. Miller
Mathews C. H
Labor World
Ontario and Western
Nyack N. Y
Hughes
Chicago
Delos Hayden
Toledo
Denmark Carr
Utica
Lincoln
Roosevelt
Missouri Pacific
Jerry M. Vizal
Herman Billik
Potter, Greer
Falkner
William Randolph Hearst
J. W. Draper
F. B. Garrett
Pittsburg
James W. Turner
Joseph Choate
E. H. Harriman
Illinois Central
Garfield H. Topping
Cotton and Wayne Minstrel Company
Barrington
Broad Street
Philadelphia
Joseph Hobbs
Joseph Kelley
Boston
Massachusetts
William Handy
South Carolina
Easton
Policeman Shuman
South Bethlehem
E. L. Dodder
Hamilton
Glade
Omaha
North Woodstock
N. H
Authors’ Club of
Edgar Allan Poe
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Beech Hargis
Kentucky
Ng Poon Chew
Chinese World
China
Jolerian Gribayedoff
Paris
East Orange
Andrew Carnegie
Pennsylvania
Kansas and
Colorado Pacific Railroad
Baron Takahira
Bishop Satterlee
Philibert
Praiament
Cenedian
Ans
of Es
News of Virginia
Petersburg
Willam Morris
George Kruse
Thurman
Gov. Swanson
Leo C. Thurman
Walter P. Dolsen
Gilbert School of
Gilbert School OF Shorthand
Calvin L. Fleet
N. Fremont St
C. S. Schermerhorn @ Son
Purina
Cheapside
Neer Pratt
Baltimore, Md
C. H. Parkhurst
Guan
Burton J. Hendrick
Nw York
Wiliam H. Tillinghast
Sing
Eno
Siga
McClure
Gus
Navy
Henry Reuterdah
Rusia
Yale
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