Strike Avoided As Railroads Agree To Prevent Eastern Walkout
Eastern railroads faced a near general strike after conductors and trainmen demanded a 20 percent wage raise. A settlement avoided a rail stoppage that would disrupt mails and produce for 50 million people east of the Mississippi. The Erdman act arbitration was discussed as the roads refused proposed terms. The affected lines include Boston and Albany, Baltimore and Ohio, Erie, Pennsylvania and many others.
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New York
Order of Railroad Conductors
The
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainment
East
Order of
Mississippi
Ohio River
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Boston
Albany
Maine
Baltimore and Ohio
Bessemer
Lake Erie
Buffalo
Rochester
Pittsburgh
Susquehanna
Central New England
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Cincinnati
Tainton
Dayton
Chicago
Inhianapolis
Louisville
Indiana
Southern
Cleveland
St. Louis
Terre Haute
Delaware
Thudson
Hudson River
New Haven
Hartford
Ontario
Western
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Reading
Rutland
Toledo
Ohio Central
Vandala
Wheeling
Like Irie
Maryland
Zanesville and
Police View of Wagner Description from 1819 Warrant
A London Spectator report dated May 18 1819 describes a warrant to arrest Richard Wagner a leading adherent of the revolutionary party. It notes his age around 37 or 38 and provides a physical sketch including brown hair gray blue eyes and glasses. It says he speaks hastily and waves quickly.
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Wagner
Richard Wagner
Revolutionary Party
Royal Court of Justice
London Spectator
Thirteen in a Swedens Exiled King Tale
The exiled Swedish king Gustaf Adolf TV links his fate to the number thirteen. He notes he became king at thirteen and reigned thirteen years, cites thirteen as a pattern through Swedens history, and mentions dying in room No eighteen in St Gallen in February 1886 in the memoir An Exiled King.
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Gustaf Adolf
Gustavus Wasa
Sweden
Charles Nii
Weisse Rogsti
St. Gallen
Monticello Residents Favor Adler-i-ka Remedy
Monticello people who tried buckthorn bark glycerine and Adler-i-ka claim it is the best bowel and stomach remedy they ever used. O H Sudje says a single dose relieves constipation sour stomach and gas quickly. Those used to ordinary remedies are surprised at Adler-i-ka’s fast action.
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Monticello
Adler-ika
O. H. Sudje
Price Of Perfect Glass Straight Edge
A famed astronomical instrument maker notes a perfect surface is impossible yet a glass straight edge thirty six inches long could be made with an error of a fraction of a light wave. The customer, seeking a scraper, would accept an error of one sixty fourth of an inch. The price quoted was about forty thousand dollars.
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St. Louis Republic
Pilot Outdoor Acetylene Plant Offers Home Lighting
An advertisement touts a new outdoor Pilot Acetylene Plant for back yards and outbuildings. It claims safe indoor use to date, easy setup, and home production of gas with Union Carbide, promising lighting and cooking at one quarter the cost of electricity.
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Union Carbide
Free Acetylene Booklets Explain Reliable Pilot Lighting
A promotional notice offers free booklets on Acetylene showing why Pilot Outdoor Acetylene plants are trusted for lighting the Panama Canal and signaling on railways. Readers may contact the district representative to receive the booklet and an outside Pilot installation estimate tailored to their needs.
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Panama Canal
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Inter Ocean and
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Intar Ocean
West
Monticello Express
Inter Ocean
Monticello, Iowa
O. R. Edwards
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