Fight Over Isthmian Canal Route Focusing on Nicaragua
Col Hepburn and Senator Morgan press for a Nicaragua route in the Isthmian Canal bill while the conference committee plans its first meeting. The debate centers on routing across Nicaragua vs Panama and a time limit to begin work, with Democratic support pivotal and Morgan deeply affected by the setback.
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New York Times
Washington
Col. Hepburn
Senator Morgan
Col
Hepburn
Nicaragua
Kansas City
Conference
Panama
Morgan
Panama Canal
Richardson
Alabama
Inter-State and Foreign Commerce Committee
Hanna
Spooner
House
Senate
House Democrats
Mr. Morgan
Capitol
Medina
Mohammed
Fight on Isthmian Canal and New Jersey Silk Strike
Reports cover labor tension in New Jersey silk mills and a major issue around the Isthmian Canal. Firemen reorganize amid strikes as national news on Cuba, London and Paris reports unfolds. Obituary notices and society briefs accompany editorial sections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isthmian Canal
New Jersey
Cuba
Washington
London
Paris
Berlite
Ccccosoccscess
Richard Croker
Diske House
Philippines
Stony Point
Eat Side
New York
Wek
Cartoon and features page highlights
Magazine supplement page lists cartoons and features including Mayor and Tammany, Well Dressed Men, Summer Girl, The Mustard Mystery, Posing Wild Animals, Queer Legends, Actors stories, The Genial Idiot, Fate of the Cynic, What the Founder Said, Orchard Idyl, Cartoon American Prosperity, A Melodrama of Real Life, Pirate of Martinique, Gowns of All Sorts, Women Here and There, Hill and Croker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tammany
Ietaleie
Piawall
S.ceves
Martinique
Em Hill and Croker
King Edward Report Denied Stroke Rumor
London dispatch rejects a circulating allegation that King Edward suffered a stroke of paralysis. Officials say he is recovering from indigestion and will return to Buckingham Palace soon. The tale cited a supposed court source citing a nervous breakdown and stroke after coronation preparations.
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London
Edward
Windsor
Buckingham Palace
Evening Sun
Laking
Aldershot
Saxony
Boys Drown in Baltimore Sewer Rescue of Sidney Travers
In Baltimore on June 21 two boys aged 14 sought refuge from a rainstorm in the Bush Street sewer mouth. Nicholas Carr drowned after currents swept them six blocks to the harbor while Sidney Travers clung to a floating log and survived with serious injuries. Carr's body was not recovered.
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Baltimore
Nicholas Carr
Sidney Travers
Carroll Park
Bush Street
Travers
Carr
Eleven Firemen Overcome By Gas At Columbus Ave Fire
A five story apartment building at 177 179 Columbus Avenue near West Sixty eighth Street suffered minor damage from an explosion of gas in the basement. Eleven firefighters were overcome by fumes. two were seriously affected. Rescues of inmates included a woman on the top floor and a crippled man aided to safety. The alarm came at 6 30 PM and the gas supply was shut off to stop the blaze. Firemen and bystanders aided the victims until treatment at Roosevelt Hospital and by Dr Spencer Halsey restored most to consciousness. The building occupants used candles as gas lines were damaged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus Avenue
West Sixty-eighth Street
Baxter
Lieut
Thomas Fuchs
Engine Company 40
Sixty-eighth Street
William J. Tulley
Ella Harrison
Edward Stafford
Stafford
Catherine Artot
Walsh
Charles Smith
Clark
Patrick
Foley
David
Graham
Hussey
W. H
Kuss
George
McCue
Thomas
Mulster
John
Murphy
Sherman
WY. P
Skelly
Thomas McCue
Halsey
Roosevelt Hospital
Capt. Skelly
Charles Whitehead
Edward D. Palmer
Whitehead
A vain search for coal in Toledo
Eastern railroad men seek hard coal in Toledo to ship east under a city franchise requiring hard or smokeless coal. A Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company rep offered to buy entire lots from local dealers, but several refused. About 10,000 tons remain, yet local dealers will not sell to outsiders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Ohio
Eastern Railroad
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Ten Hurt As Buffalo Car Crashes Near Coney Island
A crowded single track car carrying Royal Arcanum members from Ulmer Park to Coney Island ran off the rails at the Coney Island Creek bridge, injuring ten. Passengers received bruises or minor injuries. several were hospitalized or treated on site. No arrests were made as investigators assess the cause.
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Ulmer Park
Coney Island
Coney Island Creek Bridge
Royal Arcanum Lodges
Buffalo
Creek Bridge
John Judge
Alles
Mary C
Butler Street
Brooklyn
Becker
Harry
West Nineteenth Street
Brunser
William
Pine Street
Clifton
Sydney
Second Place
Davis
Jacob
Stockton Street
Henley
James
West Seventeenth Street
Judge
John
New
Louis
Twentieth Avenue
Bensonhurst
Nugent
John J
Zermile
East Nineteenth Street
Destructive Forest Fires Hit Enumclaw and Skyline District
A major forest fire in Washington state roared through mountain valleys near Enumclaw starting yesterday, destroying the Mountain Mill Lumber and White River Lumber mills and severing the town’s water line. Firefighters faced extreme heat, residents fled, and an NP train evacuation offered a narrow escape as flames threatened hotels and surrounding homes. Risk remained high in places but officials believed the worst danger had passed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoma
Washington
Enumclaw
Mountain Mill Lumber Company
White River Lumber Company
Buckley
Hot Springs
Northern Pacific
Struck for Higher Wages At North Manchester Sousa Plant
At the Syracuse Manufacturing Company in North Manchester sixty workers quit after D C Lamb owner and manager resigned over a salary demand. Lamb sought 1500 a year, claiming experience warrants it, while Browne and Bunyan refused. Workers backed Lamb and struck when no raise was granted.
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Manchester
Ind
North Manchester
Syracuse Manufacturing Company
D. C. Lamb
William Bunyan
Dewey & Sons Co Promotes Dewey Wines
An advertisement from Dewey & Sons Co at 138 Fulton St N promotes Dewey Wines as pure and crafted by the makers themselves. The copy emphasizes the product origin and authenticity.
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Dewey
Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
Striking Miners Resort to Violence in Shenandoah and Roanoke
A mob of about 800 at Lost Creek near Shenandoah, Pennsylvania attacked non union workers and stoned a coal and iron policeman before dispersal by deputies. Similar unrest in Roanoke, Virginia with pay day affecting miner actions and potential shifts in strike momentum.
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Shenandoah
Penn
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Lost Creek
Schuylkill County
Pottsville
Packer No. 4
Wilkesbarre
Stockade and camera terror to strikers in Pennsylvania
In Wilkes-Barre and Easton on June 21, miners face a modern stockade with ten-foot fences and guard cameras. Operators cite reduced violence as cameras deter aggression while plans unfold for national union positions and a forthcoming statement rebutting operators’ letters. Longshoremen report slack work due to the strike. iron industry in Lehigh Valley suffers with no pig iron available as furnaces are banked or blown out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roanoke
Pocahontas Cocal Fields
Norfolk and Western Railway
T. D. Nicholls
Lackawanna-Wyoming Valley
Thomas Duffy
Lehigh Valley
Mitchell
John Fahy
Schuylkill
Daniel J. Keefer
Detroit
Keefe
Easton
Penn
Losses by the Coal Strike Sixth Week Totals
The sixth week of the coal strike ends with estimated losses totaling 35,395,000. Losses span operators from coal price and shipments, mine workers wages, idle nonminers, and regional and external business impacts plus costs of maintaining coal and iron regions and non union stock. The figures include 15,520,000 for coal price losses, 7,770,000 in wages, 1,920,600 idle nonminers, 5,200,000 regional business losses, 3,000,000 outside coal area, and 3,500,000 plus 400,000 and 35,000 for maintenance and related damages.
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Wilkesbarre
Penn
Chicago Becomes Coal Yard for Midwest Amid Strike
Chicago acts as a coal hub with 28 000 tons stored by Edison Company and a temporary trestle by Chicago and Southern Railway enabling twelve cars to unload simultaneously. Large coal piles span 150 feet by 700 feet by 30 feet, with up to 500 tons daily being brought in, as Illinois Central floods the city for four weeks from Twenty second Street to Fifty first Street.
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Chicago
Middle West
Edison Company
West Fortieth
West Kinzie
Chicago and Southwestern Railway Company
Illinois Central Railway Company
Twenty-second Street
Fifty-first Street
West Virginia Coal Strike May Break Soon
J. Wittenberg of the Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Company received a letter from New River field agents stating most strikers in West Virginia are Negroes and that meetings discussed resuming work. The writer warned a break could occur at any time.
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J. Wittenberg
Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Company
New River
West Virginia
Woman coal operator runs Clinton mine with 150 workers
Mrs. Jane Shirkie of Clinton stands as perhaps the only woman coal operator in the United States. She holds a National Coal Operators' Association certificate and manages a large mine with a payroll of 150 men. Her two sons are salaried employees, and she oversees every foot of the mine’s workings.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Jane Shirkie
Clinton
United States
National Coal Operators’ Association
Shirkie
One Veteran Attends Edgar County Old Soldier Reunion
Paris resident Daniel G. Burr, eighty three, led a lone old soldier reunion at Paris with only his own participation. He recited the Edgar County roll from the Mexican War era, while trees stood as silent witnesses and death and distance left others gone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Ill
Daniel G. Burr
Fair Grounds
Edgar County
Officials Fight Fuel Gas Use Amid Coal Teamsters Action
Officials of the Coal Teamsters Union No. 2 warn building owners and agents that unless they sign year round coal burning agreements they will not haul coal during cold weather. The union seeks to curb fuel gas in stores and plants while promising no blanket strikes, with Siegel Cooper & Co. among the first signers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Coal Teamsters
Union No. 2
Siegel, Cooper & Co
Cornell Garsons Sweep Regatta on Poughkeepsie Course
Cornell University crews dominated the Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta on the Hudson. The Varsity four, Freshmen eight, and Varsity eight swept all three races as Columbia finished third in each. Wisconsin earned second honors in the two later races.
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Poughkeepsie
Cornell University
Cornell
Varsity
Hudson Valley
Francis S Bangs
Intercollegiate Rowing Association
Charles Courtney
Ithacans
Wisconsin Boys
Columbia
Pennsylvania
Quakers
University of Syracuse
Syracuse
Georgetown
Washington
University
Andoolumbia
Highland Station
Rip van Winkle
Hudson River
Eustis
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Aragua
Today’s Times
Maga
Mes
Magazine Supplement
King Edward
THE
Royal Arcanum
Coal and Iron
Shenan
Doah
Clinton, Ind
Chicago Coal Teamsters
New York Time
Newlanding W. 129Th St
Cornell Garsmen
Ithaca
Courtney
Wiscon
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