Workingman's Soliloquy by Clinton Bancroft
A fragmented poem in which a worker describes toiling to feed armies and build factories while serving a distant master. The speaker envisions suffering, poverty, and war as the price of oppression, ending with a mournful vision of mothers and sisters weeping and a light arising.
Wage-Labor Legislation Gains Across States in 1921
A summary from the American Association for Labour Legislation notes progress on maternity protection vocational rehabilitation and unemployment actions. It reports 23 states enacted new vocational rehabilitation laws and 80 adopted workmen's compensation provisions. California expanded public works and long-term planning while New Mexico enacted child labor limits and eight-hour rules. The Sheppard-Towner act passed Congress and several states accepted it. immigration was limited to 3 percent of foreign-born residents as of 1910 census, and the New York labor law was recodified.
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John B. -Andrews
Association For Labor
Cate
Congress
California
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Upon
Association For Labor Legislation
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Porto Rico
Wisconsin
The Redeeming Light of Work and Education
A fragmented ideological note speaks of labor progress and education as a force for life in industry. It urges continual advancement, claiming today’s hard times are not of our making but for our redemption and a brighter tomorrow.
Maps Airplane Route Establishment to San Francisco
A permanent Washington to San Francisco air route will be mapped as Lieut. Paul Wilkins completes a flight from Bolling Field to the Pacific coast. Sergt. Léo Hutkill accompanies him while locating landmarks and safe landing fields along the coast.
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Léo Hutkill
Edward Dunn Receives Gold Purse on Retirement
Edward Dunn began in 1867 as a mounted messenger under Secretary Stanton and after 55 years of service was relieved August 20. His co workers gave him a gold purse, presented by Secretary Weeks, in a ceremony linked to England's Star Chamber and its historic powers and abolition in 1641.
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Edward Dunn
Stanton
Weeks
England
Henry-Vii
Wiliam I
Anxious to Please Hotel Breakfast Quip Narrates Chop Demand
An exchange at a hotel breakfast shows an exceedingly fidgety customer pressing the waiter for a chop. The guest repeats requests and demands to know when the chop will be ready, prompting the waiter to reply it is on the grill and to choose whether to have it now or when it is done.
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Phillydelphila Ledger
The Magi and Nancy’s Dilemma in a Country Tale
In 1923 a frail Nancy, cared for by Aunt Phoebe, confronts a meddling Teddy while David Price returns from study abroad. A wood cottage, a sick aunt, and a surviving pneumonia bind their fates as Nancy hopes for union with David, with a magical night and a tea turn in Hannah’s kitchen shaping outcomes.
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