Wages, Conditions in Los Angeles Factories Probed
Reports on wages and working conditions in Los Angeles reveal eight hour violations for women, low pay in five and ten cent stores, and hotel recruitment through agencies taking ten percent of first month’s wages. Governor Clark calls for a social evil inquiry as lawmakers push wage and white slavery probes nationwide. Mayor Gaynor criticizes starvation wages and urges living pay to curb vice. California Senate fixes pandering penalties up to twenty years.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Municipal
Des Moines
Clark
Senate
Harding
New York
Gaynor
Sacramento
California
Sixty Eight Women Drowned in Lake Scutari Swamping
Vienna dispatch to the London Express reports that sixty eight women were drowned when a boat swamped on Lake Scutari. Senator J N Burgess traveled to Filet Rock this morning to view the scene.
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London
Lake Scutari
Vienna
London Expres
J. N. Burgess
Filet Rock
Massachusetts Hat Pin Safety Law Signed by Governor
March 11 report notes Massachusetts passes an act requiring protective devices on hat pins to prevent injuries. Women who do not cover sharp points face a potential fine of 100 dollars. Governor Foss signed the measure into law.
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Kosten
Massachusetts
Foss
Newspapers Ready to Fight the Law
The Supreme Court heard an injunction request from Attorney Robert Morris for the New York Journal to block Postmaster General Burleson from enforcing a newspaper publicity law. The government did not oppose the application, and the court reserved decision with arguments set for December.
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Washington
Burleson
Supreme Court
Robert Morris
The
New York Journal
McReynolds
Bullitt
Morris
Woman burglar sought in California robberies
Police search for a woman described as the brains of a crime ring that robbed California sites, fleeing east on February 28 with over fifty thousand dollars in loot. Otto Owen alias O O Cain, held to have worked with her, says she aided in Pasadena thefts and may be linked to jewelry plunder found in his San Francisco hotel room.
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San Francisco
Otto Owen
Oo. D. Cain
Chicago
California
Owen
Pasadena
Private Shoots Officer in Personal Crisis at Ysleta
In El Paso on March 11 Captain Hamilton Bowie of the thirteenth cavalry was shot in the shoulder by Private Carl Campbell of the same regiment. Campbell, after wounding a fellow camper who chased him, killed himself. Reports say Captain Rowle had reprimanded Campbell prior to the incident.
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el Paso
Hamilton Bowie
Thirteenth Cavalry
Carl Campbell
Campbell
Ysleta
Texas
Rowle
Spring Fever Hits Households As Gases Of Spring Arrive
The article revels in spring mood with talk of blooming buttercups and grass, housework surges, lawn care, and garden prep. It notes men and clerks shifting duties, rising energy, and predictions of a sunny season amid a possible frost. Professional gardeners seek contracts for the new season as old timers forecast a hot summer ahead.
Policy on Philippine independence unchanged after White House meeting
Washington March 11 Secretary Garrison said after a conference with President Wilson that he did not believe Philippine independence would change and would be considered at the extra session of congress. He denied any appointments were discussed, saying they considered only broad questions facing the administration.
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Washington
Ore
Wilson
Garrison
Philippines
Mrs Wilson Hosts First Pink Tea In White House
Washington report describes Mrs Wilson presiding at a first pink tea with Mrs Marshall and cabinet wives attending. Tea served in the president's study on the White House second floor, with Belle Hagner as the sole non cabinet invitee. Gossip centered on social plans for the new administration.
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Washington
Wilson
Boy kills father to prevent murder in Chicago
In Chicago on March 11, nineteen year old Peter Schelber shot his father Charles Schelber to stop him from killing his daughter. The father died from his wounds. police report says the son acted after the father began breaking down the pantry door and the son seized a gun and fired.
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Chicago
Charles Schelber
Peter Schelber
Water Canal Break Destroys Property Near Hermiston
Hermiston Ore March 11 Thousands of dollars in property losses followed a break in the feed canal one mile east of Hermiston. Water rushed out for miles leaving 12 to 16 feet depths in places. Government workers repair the canal, with completion expected in a week.
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Hermiston
Ore
James Bowera
Maxwell Ditch
F. W. Whiting
Echo
Court Grants Motion in Gambling Case in Walla Walla
In Walla Walla on March 11 Superior Judge Edward C. Milla granted Charles Seeliger and John Britner’s request to require Rube Smith to make their complaint more definite and certain. The suit accuses Seeliger and Britner of taking £520 in a gambling game and calls for separation of two causes of action for proper pleadings. The plaintiff says losses occurred December 14 and 15 with amounts to be specified. Attorneys EB Barker for the plaintiff and Gose for the defense debated witness convenience and whether prior night testimony would aid the case.
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Walla Walla
Wash
Edward C. Milla
Charles Seeliger
John Britner
Rube Smith
Seeliger
Britner
EB. F. Barker
Gose
Naked eye view of Mercury tonight at greatest elongation
Sky watchers may see Mercury without aid at 11 pm as it reaches its greatest elongation of 18 degrees 19 minutes. The Moon will be near Mercury and Venus shines as an evening star in the east, Mercury appearing as a tiny reddish pin point among stars.
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Mercury
Solar System
Venus
Dr Swinburne Dies At Son's Home In Seattle
Dr Be R Swinburne longtime Pendleton figure died Monday at 8 pm at his son Dr Ralph Swinburne’s Seattle residence. Body to be shipped to Heppner for burial tomorrow afternoon. Judge and Mrs Ellis to attend. Once in Pendleton eight years ago from Heppner, he later moved to Seattle after a paralysis attack followed by another stroke last Saturday.
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BE. R. Swinburne
Unions Enjoined From Interfering in Chicago
In Chicago on March 11 Federal District Judge Carpenter permanently forbade two Chicago IBEW locals from molesting Postal Telegraph property. The Postal Telegraph company posted the court order on telegraph poles citywide as District Attorney Wilkerson pursued the injunction.
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Chicago
Carpenter
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Postal Telegraph Company
Postal
Wilkerson
Opium Seizure on Puget Sound Largest In Years
Tacoma March 11 Deputy Customs Inspector N C Adams arrested K Takaki chief steward of the Mexico Maru on boarding a taxi. He was found with 18 tins of opium under his rain coat and 20 more tins revealed in a room bringing the total to 2485 tins valued at 10000 dollars marking a major seizure on Puget Sound involving a Japanese steamer.
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Tacoma
Puget Sound
N. C. Adams
K. Takaki
Takaki
Game Warden Shot in Marin County Shootout
Deputy Game Warden Frank Galloway was shot in the head during a road chase with two prisoners in Marin County between Larkspur and Racalle. Captain George LeCornee and Herbert LeCornee were wounded, Galloway returned fire, and both suspects were killed. A witness fled, and no weapon was found on the brothers.
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San Francisco
Frank Galloway
Marin County
George LeCornee
Herbert LeCornee
Galloway
Larkspur
Racalle
la Cornec
Aviator Perregon Sets 19800 Foot Altitude Record
Paris reports aviator Perregon in a single plane climbed to nineteen thousand eight hundred feet from the Buc aerodonte establishing a new altitude record.
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Paris
Perregon
Buc Aerodonte
Average life of nurse is six years in practice
Los Angeles report to the municipal committee on women’s wages and working conditions states the average career span of nurses in practice is six years. Mrs. D P Nell led the thorough investigation, with authenticity vouched for by doctors and many nurses.
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Los Angeles
D. P. Nell
Effort to Hold Up Evidence in Alaska Land Fraud Case
Chicago March 11. Efforts were made to block documentary proofs of alleged false entities in government lands in Alaska in the suit against Alberna Frost of Chicago and five others accused of defrauding the government of ten million dollars in land and coal holdings. The defense argued filings by individuals were not links in the fraud conspiracy.
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Chicago
Alaska
Alberna
Frost
Swindled by clairvoyants and stock swindlers
Chicago police pursue a swindling trust using clairvoyants and fortune tellers to trap victims. Mrs Mary Rapp of Naperville loses about 10000 to stock brokers while Lydia Lemke of Elgin forges notes to gain fortune, among hundreds duped.
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Chicago
Mary Rapp
Naperville
Lydia Lemke
Elgin
Wilson Family to Have No Alcohol in the White House
Washington reports the Wilson administration will be dry for four years with no intoxicating liquor in the White House. President Wilson and his family oppose wine and liquor, and key figures like Secretary of State Bryan favor prohibition. The Democratic majority from the South supports a restrained alcohol policy, making a notably dry era likely since Hayes.
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Washington
Wilson
Bryan
Nebraska
Clark
Senate
House
South
White House
President Hayes
Hayes
Executive Mansion
Wage probes threaten profits of mill owners
Chicago reports Lieutenant Governor O’Hara denounces millionaire employers for starvation wages linked to prostitution. Investigators meet tomorrow in Springfield to decide if they must compel replies on profits from department stores before heading to Washington to seek a conference with President Wilson. He accuses firms of using benevolence funds to mask coercive pay and labels eight dollars a week as the bread line set by these bosses.
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Chicago
Senate
United Press
O'Hara
Springfield
Washington
Wilson
Storm Thunders Caused Havoc in Sydney Harbor
A severe thunderstorm swept Sydney last night causing electrocution of a wagon driver and drowning three men when a boat overturned. Six streetcars were derailed and numerous buildings were demolished with several additional fatalities reported across the city.
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Sydney
New South Wales
Commonwealth
Canada Welcomes Dr. Friedmann in Montreal Visit
Montreal March 11 A hearty welcome greeted Dr Friedmann as he arrived to confer with Montreal physicians Col Burland chief benefactor of the royal tuberculosis institute greeted him at the depot and escorted him to a hotel where a score of physicians awaited. He then went to the institute and administered the serum to several patients in the presence of fifty doctors.
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Montreal
Friedmann
Col. Burland
Royal Tuberculosis Institute
Inland Irrigation VP Returns to Inspect West County Property
Em P Marshall vice president of the Inland Irrigation Co has just returned from Honolulu and left this morning for the west end of the county to survey the companys property interests.
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Em. P. Marshall
The
Inland Irrigation Co
Honolulu
Suffragists jailed for throwing petitions at King's carriage
London march 11 five suffragettes were jailed on a technical charge after attempting to fling votes for women petitions into the royal coach as the king rode to parliament. Four got three weeks and one four weeks. they planned a hunger strike and left the courtroom crying out. Civil unrest spilled into the street with wagons of coal organs and vegetables blocking suffragist HQ.
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George
London
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Congress
Harold
Illinois
Canada
DR. Friedmann
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