Railways Reject Unions Demands and Call for Arbitration
The railroads rejected eight hour day and overtime cut proposals and urged Federal arbitration, preferably by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Union leaders rejected arbitration and vowed a national strike by 300000 track and yard workers, with a second conference planned within four to five days.
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Egineering Societies
West Thirty-ninth Street
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Elisha Lée
National Conference Committee
F of
Railways
A. B. Garretson
National Conference Committee of the Railways
Stest
Lee
Mr. Garretson
Mr. Lee
Monitor survivor seeks Newark commemorative design at White House
The last survivor of the Monitor crew, Dr Grenvilla M Weeks, visited the White House seeking a meeting with President to discuss a design for a Newark New Jersey 250th anniversary monument. Weeks, in Grand Army uniform, showed a battle souvenir and recounted his Union service and injury.
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New York Times
Washington
Monitor
White House
Newark
N. J
Lansing
Grenvilla M. Weeks
Weeks
Grand Army
Merrimac
Army
Stanton
Lincoln
Ajor
Inspectors Find One Clean Restaurant in Citywide Probe
Bureau of Pure Food and Drugs inspectors visited eighty restaurants across three districts from Twenty-third to Fifty-ninth Street in a food safety campaign led by Chief James J. Kearness. Only one eatery earned a fair rating for proper sanitation, while others showed issues such as unclean towels, contaminated cans, and lack of medical certificates for hotel staff. A Greely Square café was the sole "good" rating so far.
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Bureau of Pure Food and Drugs
Department of Health
James J. Kearness
Greely Square
Five Dead and Forty-Two Missing in Bear Wreck Off Mendocino Coast
Eureka reports show 168 of 210 aboard Bear survived, including 1384 at Eureka and 20 at Capetown. The million-dollar steamer ran on rocks in dense fog near Sugar Loaf Rock. two boats capsized with many losses while Oregon and Grace Dollar assisted search efforts.
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Eureka
Cal
Bear
San Francisco and Portland Steamship Company
Mendocino
California
Capetown
Sugar Loaf Rock
Louis
Nepander
Bear River
Ee Y
Vera Adams
Seattle
Miss Adams
Oregon
Free speech upheld in Bronx birth control meeting case
Mrs. Elizabeth Zelsolost, self described editor and author, testified against Robert Harmowitz of the Bronx after she arrested him at a Madison Square birth control meeting. Magistrate Corrigan dismissed Harmowitz, saying free speech cannot be halted in such cases and suggested a civil action if aggrieved.
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Elizabeth I. Zelsolost
West Twenty-fifth Street
Robert Harmowitz
Bathgate Avenue
Bronx
Electric Flags for July 4 Parade Illuminations
The 1916 Mayor's Independence Day Committee on Illuminations met to allocate 7000 dollars from a 25000 dollar general fund. Lighting companies added 5000 dollars and will supply current and lamps at no cost. Proposals include using electric flags and illuminated signs for the President, Governor, and Mayor.
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Hehta
Bail Returned to Betts Amid Forgery Indictment
Supreme Court Justice Donnelly ordered City Chamberlain to return 3500 dollars that Carlton Hudson Betts of Chicago deposited as bail after he went to New York to face a 22 year old forgery indictment. Betts had vanished from New York while under indictment, later showed up in a civil case and testified before a trial proceeded before his discharge.
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Supreme Court
Donnelly
Chamberlain
Carlton Hudson Betts
Chicago
New York
Trial details tracks at Orpet murder case in Waukegan
Testimony in Waukegan trial of Will H. Orpet describes snow tracks near Helminx woods as old and leading to an oak cluster where Marion Lambert’s body was found. Undertaker Fred Wenban notes footprints show a man leaving toward a marsh. toxicologist Dr. Ralph W. Webster says Marion swallowed four grains of cyanide in liquid form.
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Waukegan
Helminx
Will H. Orpet
Marion Lambert
Fred Wenban
Marion
Orpet
William Marshall
Frank Lambert
Wenban
Ralph W. Webster
Lawyers Aid Red Cross Campaign Reaches 100000 Target
A special lawyers committee led by Joseph H Choate urges enrollment in the Red Cross to reach 100000 local members. Paul Cravath John Milburn Elihu Root and Thomas Jhacher serve on the committee with Mr Root on the New York County Chapter Executive Committee. A city employees meeting at the Municipal Building will report on campaign results with several thousand new members enrolled including Mayor Mitchel.
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Joseph H. Choate
Red Cross
Choate
American Red Cross
Mitchel
Women Hurt When Long Island Train Jumps Tracks
At Union Hall Street Station in Jamaica a Long Island Railroad train halted abruptly throwing delegates from a Long Island Gay of Women's Clubs meeting. Several women including Mrs Don C Seitz and Miss E L Bond were shaken with injuries such as arm and back strains, knee and head complaints, but none required hospital care.
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New York Times
Jamaica
L. I
Don C. Seitz
Brooklyn
Cos Cob
Cc. Seite
Proquet
E. L. Bond
W. Burton
Queens
I. Bu
W. J. Barge
Taylor
Hollis
Williams
Shoee
Bomb Explodes in Mall Car Aimed at Utah Governor
A bomb in a mailed package exploded in a mall car at Butte Montana while being transferred from a Chicago Burlington and Quincy train to the Oregon Short Line. Governor Spry said he had received threats but was uninjured and the incident prompted federal investigation.
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Butte
Mount
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Oregon Short Line
Salt Lake City
Spray
Butte, Munt
Joseph Hillatrong
J. G. ,Morrison
Salt Lake
Minister Denies Denial of Bible Inspiration
The Rev. George Ried Andrews of West End Presbyterian backed the Bible as ultimate spiritual authority after a Y M C A talk, clarifying he questioned infallibility rather than inspiration and rejected reports labeling his remarks heresy.
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George Ried Andrews
West End
Mr. Andrews
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