Cloak Strike Settled After Months of Suffering and Hope
The cloak, suit, and skirt strike ends with a signed protocol at Wall Street after months of hardship. Union men gain preferential shop rules and wage improvements, while manufacturers retain key points and push for standardization. Leaders hail a new cooperative tone and a shared economic approach to labor relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius Henry Cohen
Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers’ Association
Meyer London
Louis Marshall
Wall Street
Manufacturers’ Association
Big Cave-In on Park Row Delays City Traffic
About twenty five feet of Park Row between Tryon Row and North William Street sank into the excavation for a new municipal office. A pile of heavy beams toppled, injuring no one and delaying Third Avenue cars south of New Chambers Street for days.
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Park Row
Tryon Row
North William Street
Munici
Brooklyn Bridge
Chatham Square
Chambers Street
Paulding Sets Speed Record as Fastest Navy Destroyer
The oil burning destroyer Paulding, built by Bath Iron Works, surpassed its 29.5 knot contract target by 3.3 knots with an average 328 knots over four hours. Trials off Seguin Island showed strong performance against coal burning rivals Flusser and Reid, with Roe as another oil burning example.
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Bath
Paulding
Flusser
Reid
Bath Iron Works
Seguin Island
Kennebec River
Cuban editor shot dead in Havana political killing
Juan Amer editor of the satirical weekly Chantecler was shot and killed in Havana by Liberal City Council candidate José Pennino. The slaying followed a scurrilous article about a society woman to whom Pennino is attentive. Pennino was arrested.
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Havana
Juan Amer
Satircal
Chantecler
José Pennino
Pennine
Watson Faints After Fiery Georgia Speech
Thomas E. Watson faced a hostile 5000 strong Atlanta Auditorium crowd while denouncing ex Governor Hoke Smith and Congressman T. W. Hardwick. He fainted during the tirade and was carried off stage as cries of Hoke dominated the hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Atlanta
Thomas E. Watson
Hoke Smith
Watson
Georgia
T. W. Hardwick
Hardwick
Hoke
Signal Men Go On Strike On New York Central
Buffalo division of the New York Central system sees signaling workers go on strike after a Brotherhood meeting. J A Martin says all signal men struck nationwide, while Superintendent Evans notes Mohawk and Hudson River sections remained unaffected.
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Buffalo
Brotherhood of the Railway
New York Central
J. A. Martin
Evans
Burffalo
Mohawk
Hudson River
Bodies found under trestle near Graceville
In Graceville Florida on September 2 authorities recovered the bodies of Edward Christian a Black man charged with public safety incidents and Deputy Sheriff Allen Burns along with Hattie Bowman a Black woman who had been arrested in connection with the crime both hanging from a nearby trestle this morning
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Florida
Graceville
Fla
Edward Christian
Allen Burns
Hattie Bowman
Fasting Cure Restores Deafness For Engineer
Denver Sept 2 Roland Moetler a young civil engineer ended a fifty seven day fast to cure stomach trouble and partial deafness from catarrh He began drinking orange and plum juice and can hear clearly though weak He weighed 148 pounds at start and about 70 pounds now His father a Milwaukee physician watched his diet and Moeller expressed happiness despite drastic weight loss
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Denver
Roland Moetler
Moeller
Milwaukee
Roosevelt Heads to Sioux City After Omaha Stop
Ex President Theodore Roosevelt spent a quiet day in Omaha before departing for Sioux City and Sioux Falls. He met with Governor Shallenberger and senators, spoke at the Omaha Field Club praising American democracy and warning against graft and mob rule, and urged honesty in public life.
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The
Tribune
Omaha
Roosevelt
Sioux City
Sioux Falls
Shallenberger
Burkett, Brown and Dolliver
General Smith
Department of the Missouri
Omaha Field Club
Europe
America
Wainwright to retire in fall amid Westchester politicking
Senator J Mayhew Wainwright of Westchester County is set to be retired this fall after clashes with the Ward machine over direct nominations and his independence. Assemblyman Frank L Young emerges as likely successor, with Young gaining a rapid rise in Albany and opposing Governor Hughes on reform.
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J. Mayhew Wainwright
Westchester County
William L. Ward
Old Guard
Wainwright
Westchester
Frank L. Young
Ossining
Young
Hughes
New York Central
Machine
Albany
Assembly
Ward
Meade
Rochester
Grattan
Tammany Hall
Railroads
Trust Company
Public Service Commissions
Allds
Ocean clash halves temper and sails of Eclipse off Brazil
The Standard Oil bark Eclipse left New York April 28 with oil for the Orient and, after a collision 500 miles off Brazil on June 4 with an unknown steel vessel, dumped thousands of gallons to stay afloat. Captain White and crew held her together until Pernambuco, then made temporary repairs. The other ship vanished. the Eclipse sailed to Hong Kong via Pernambuco with 120000 cases of oil unloaded to save the voyage.
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Eclipse
Standard Oil Company
New York
Case Oil
Orient
Brazil
James C. White
Pernambuco
Stapleton
White
World's Greatest Park May Grow With Harriman Gift
At Bear Mountain prison site a transfer of title to the Interstate Palisades Park Commission was nearly arranged with ceremonies planned for the week of September 12. Mrs Harriman pledged to add to the gift of ten thousand acres and a million dollars as park plans near completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Newburg
N. Y
Bear Mountain
William Johnston McKay
New Prison Commission
George W. Perkins
J. de Pratt White
Interstate Palisades Park Commission
Park Commission
E. E. Olcott
Captain White
A. H. Harden
Hudson River Railroad
E. H. Harriman
W. Averell Harriman
Charles T. Ford
Harriman
W. J. McKay
Auto owner dies in Pleasantville crash near Millwood
Walter Horton twenty year old owner of a Pleasantville garage was fatally injured yesterday when his car skidded off the road near Millwood N Y and overturned pinning him beneath the vehicle until a tree prevented a fall to an embankment. He died two hours later after being rushed home. Horton was son of Edward G Horton a Westchester County real estate man. He had just bought an interest in the Pleasantville garage and was en route to the Putnam County Fair Carmel when the accident occurred.
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Walter Horton
Pleasantville
Millwood
N. Y
Horton
Edward G. Horton
Westchester County
Carmel
Kidnapping scare as five girls vanish in Columbus Avenue
Five young sisters from No 27 Columbus avenue wandered into Central Park and were missing for hours. After a long hunt by neighbors, a police officer directed them back to Central Park West where they finally found their way home tired and hungry.
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West 30Th Street
Jefferson Market Court
Goff
Snitkin
West B4th Street
Alexander Block
Columbus Avenue
Charlotte Newman
Virginia
Grace Slevin
Ellen Moran
Helen Kaps
Central Park
Fifth Avenue
Shth Street
S6th Street
Central Park West
Water Vapor Found In Mars Atmosphere By Lowell Team
At Flagstaff on September 2 astronomers from Lowell Observatory report stronger evidence of water vapor and oxygen in Mars air. Slipher’s spectrogram measured with Very’s comparator shows Mars has two and a half times more water vapor than the Moon under similar observing conditions.
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Flagstaff
Ariz
Mars
Lowell Observatory
Slipher
Very
Moon
Earth
Lunar
Dynamite Prank Not Real Attack At Donora Mills Dinner
Rumors of an explosive plot against Fr. Bayard, superintendent of the Donora Mills, prompted U S Steel detectives to investigate. They found dynamite was a joke and the supposed assailant was a mill foreman in disguise posing as an Italian workman during the dinner.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
Fr. Bayard
Donora Mills
American Wire and Steel Company
United States Steel Corporation
Harriman Lines Retrench Halted Improvement Work
An order from Julius Kruttschnitt director of maintenance of way prompts all Harriman system superintendents to cut expenses and halt improvement work. Local officers of Union Pacific Oregon Short Line and Southern Pacific enforce strict retrenchments across lines.
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Ogden
Utah
Julius Kruttschnitt
Harriman
Union Pacific
Oregon Short Line
Southern Pacific
Barnes Warns Republicans Against Roosevelt Tactics
William Barnes Jr., at state headquarters in New York, accuses Theodore Roosevelt of stoking hysteria and warns Republicans at Saratoga to resist direct nominations and party agitation. He calls Roosevelt a boss and urges support for conservative, business-friendly policies, naming risks to the party and economy.
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William Barnes, Jr
Nantucket
Roosevelt
Saratoga
Mr. Roosevelt
Mr. Barnes
Barnes
Supreme Court of the United States
New York
Republican Party
Sireet
Supreme Court of the
United States
Greiner
Griscom
Woodruff
Republican State Committee
Vic President
Sherman
West
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Louis Brandeis
Tion
Contiourd
Tom” Watson
Buffalo Division
Independence of
Long
Senate
Labor Day
Columbus Day
Btr. H. Hudso
Standard Oil
Atlantic
Hong Kong
Eter
W. L. Ward
Steel Man
Harriman Lines
Ware
Progressives
Progressive Forces
Brooklyn
Mr. Woodrutt
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