New York Mobilizes for Draft amid Holiday Spirit
New York begins mass draft registration for men 21 to 31 with 8000 officers enlisting, 10000 National Guardsmen on alert, and heavy police presence. Bronx riots at an anti conscription meeting prompted swift dispersal as Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman leaders. Authorities warn against interference and outline rounds for those refusing to register.
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International News Service
New York
Bronx
Home Defense League
National
Emma Goldman
Alexander Berkman
Department of Justice
David Starr Jordan
United States Marshal’s Office
U.S. District Attorney's Office
U. S
Hitchcock
Marshal McCarthy
Brooklyn
Farm Union Head Attacks Speculation
Union City Ga June 5 The farm union head denounces speculation calling it disguised gambling in business He argues legitimate trades benefit both sides while speculation costs producers especially cotton and wheat farmers who have been robbed over the past decades by market gambles The speaker asserts long standing harm to southern farmers from cotton speculation and calls for awareness of wealth being siphoned away.
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Union City
South
Abolish Speculation in All Products to Save Industry
The article decries food and commodity speculation as parasitic, demanding the eradication of speculation across markets. It argues legitimate middlemen trade real goods while distant traders in New York and Chicago, who never touch physical cotton or grain, are parasitic. It warns war era losses could hasten reform to protect American industry and cites 90,000 railroad trespass deaths in 20 years.
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New York
Chicago
Making New Use For Old Canals Across Cities
A trend seeks to reuse decaying canals as urban assets. Cincinnati plans to convert part of the Miami and Erie Canal bed into an interurban route while Syracuse aims to route New York Central tracks along its Erie Canal bed. Rochester, N Y, reportedly contemplates a similar transformation, highlighting a shift from open sewers to transportation corridors.
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United States
Cincinnati
Syracuse
New York Central
Rochester
N. Y
Canal to become new channel while old hosts streetcars
Weather often very warm in summer but that season is free from elections or politics. The note from the Milwaukee Sentinel describes converting the canal at that point into a new channel and using the old one for street car tracks, implying urban infrastructure changes.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
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