High cost fighting opens in capital over living costs
In Washington on December 15 the House debated a resolution for a Federal Trade Commission inquiry into food prices. Backers seek a vote to mandate action, while the measure would not require Senate or presidential approval. The Senate meanwhile moved to study government supply costs and price controls.
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International News Service
Washington
House
Federal Trade Commission
Judiciary Committee
The
Trade Commission
Senate
Making the Best of It
A fragment from the Washington Star quotes a quirky exchange about a tarred and feathered figure in a Graveyard scene. The dialogue notes grim humor and curiosity, reflecting a peculiarly colportage style rather than a clear news event.
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Ron Feelz
Wweshington
Christmas Poultry Line From Home Dressed Vendors
A full line of home dressed turkeys geese ducks fowl and chickens and little roasting pigs offered for Christmas by local vendors.
Suffragists Gather Here Highlight Stormy Meeting
Suffragists gathered as speaker and attendees praised the women’s work despite a storm. Miss Gibbs answered many questions by phone while Rev. Smithers welcomed participants and Mayor Thompson was set to speak. Industrial gains in New York state noted by the State Industrial Commission. An auto snow plow and a brief history of the poster art era appear in the same column.
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Smithers
Smithers, Jr
Thompson
Dar
Albany
New York
State Industrial Commission
Malibran Generosity Noted Beneath Parisian Birth and Manchester Death
Malibran, the celebrated mezzo born in Paris in 1808 and died in Manchester in 1836, was renowned for amiability generosity and professional enthusiasm. Her benefactions were so large that friends often had to intervene to regulate her finances.
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Malibran
Mezzo Soprance
Paris
Manchester
England
Ban on Liquor Ads Near Mail Order Firms
Washington reports a bill to prohibit mail transmission of liquor advertisements to anyone but licensed liquor dealers or agents. The House committee favorably reported the measure aimed at the mail order liquor business in dry areas. Wallkill Council No. 92 held a meeting on Washington Street with routine business and candidate intutions. Temperature readings from Proud's thermometer show 23 this morning, 24 at noon, and 24 at 3 PM.
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Washington
Louse Restoiree
Wallkill
Proud
Newark ejects strikers and orders crew out of city
Aided by police, six organizers and 40 pickets were ordered out of Newark New Jersey as garment workers union efforts to call out workers failed. Agents of the union later sought to recruit 1 000 more workers elsewhere before police guided the effort. A building committee member and superintendent accompanied officials to inspect school buildings in Paterson and Passaic New Jersey with weather permitting.
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Newark
New York
Garment Workers’ Strihe
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Board of
Funeral Saturday for Seely Green in Mechanics Town
Funeral services for Seely Green will be at his late home in Mechanics Town Saturday at 2 PM, with interment in Wallhill Cemetery, Philipsburgh. A fund is being raised for the family. The item notes a merchant cooperative fund at Demerest Dry Goods with employees saving money.
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Seely Green
Mechanics' Town
Wallhill Cemetery
Philipsburgh
National Bank
Demerest Dry Goods Company
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