Strikes swell ranks as new workers join coal field
In Wilkes-Barre and surrounding Wyoming Lackawanna districts the coal strike gains new adherents. Green hands quit after one shift, experienced workers return, pumps idle at Hollenback mine, and tensions flare with scattered disturbances across Scranton Shamokin and Reading areas as Mitchell and district leaders press for a settlement.
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Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Company
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Central Railroad of New Jersey
Will Mine Coal Despite Strikers Set to Guard Mines
Engineers and police are being sent to collieries as coal operators vow to continue production despite the strike. Fifty strike breakers left Broad Street Station for Wilkes-Barre to guard mine properties. The National Guard may be called for service with inflationary tensions and June 15 seen as a threshold for potential violence.
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National Guard of Pennsylvania
Bakers Act to End Strike Faces Court Order
Kansas City reports on June 3 as striking union bakers were enjoined by Judge John F. Phillips of the United States Circuit Court, halting their labor actions and ordering compliance with federal labor law. The action centers on bakery workers in the region amid ongoing labor tensions.
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Des Moines
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Inc
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John F. Phillips
United States Circuit
Ord
Rug industry shows signs of settlement after strike
About 10 000 workers remain idle as rug and damask weavers strike for a 10 percent wage raise. Only D. W. Stroud agreed to the demand, signing a new schedule and bringing 90 Stroud mill workers back today. Other Camden and city mills are expected to follow.
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D. W. Stroud
Camden
The Anemone Sanguine in the June Critic
Clinton Boollard writes in the June Critic about a crimson flower blooming near Acre amid wartime memories. The poem links the flower to chivalry and the repeated remembrance of battles across generations.
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Beales
Clinton Boollard
French writer Hugues Le Roux studies Abyssinia for economic questions
Hugues Le Roux, a French writer and traveler, recently returned from Abyssinia where he was commissioned by the French Government to study economic questions. He asserts that American cottons have secured a dominant position in the market.
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Hugues le Roux
Abyssinia
Actress Finette Ball Lynch Marries Lt Morris Stafford Lessieur
The wedding occurred in Wilmington Delaware on May 20 as Miss Lynch married Lieutenant Lessieur after a brief theatre stint with the Henry Ludlam Company. Officiating was Bishop Leighton Coleman at the Chapel of the Good Shepherd. The bride, daughter of the late General Lynch, had lived at 927 Walnut Street.
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Morris Stafford Lessieur
Wilmington
Del
Miss Lynch
Henry Ludlam
Mary Alden
Leighton Coleman
Delaware
Hill's Friends Talk of Harmony in Albany Rally
Albany audience hears State Democratic headquarters reopened at 119 North Pearl Street after 30 years. Speakers including Campbell HiIl, Stanchfield, Coler, Carroll, Danforth urge unity and organization. Letters from Lamont Shepard Cochran praise campaign. Tammany Hall and Greater New York push regular slate and loyalty to Bryan.
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Rourke Cochran
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Liberty Bell to Return from Charleston Next Week
The Liberty Bell will be brought back to Philadelphia early next week from Charleston where it has been on display at the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition since January. The joint committee will depart Friday afternoon, travel to Charleston, stay overnight, and return with two stops at Norfolk and Washington before reaching Philadelphia Tuesday morning.
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Chicago Banks Merge Into One Institution
The Metropolitan National and the First National Bank merged this morning in Chicago. Deposits at the First National are about 98 million dollars. E G Keith president of the Metropolitan and Gaonber Hitchcock and other Metropolitan officials attended the opening. Keith will become president of the Chicago Title and Trust Company on July 1.
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Chicago Title and Trust Company
Cosby to Oversee Delaware River Channel Work
Captain Cosby takes charge of the thirty-foot channel project after Colonel Smith transfers all related papers and staff. He will view the river operation with C W Raymond at 9 am on the Vidette, push work with $125,000 on hand, and aim to begin bidding and dredging quickly under the official plan. A river and harbor bill may add $600,000 soon to accelerate progress.
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Colonel Raymond
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Col. Smith
Thirty Foot Channel
Jared A. Smith
Philadelphia Times
Mobile
Board of Engineers
Four year old runs away aboard Pennsylvania train
A four year old boy named Willie Wallace sat beside a Westville New Jersey car window with a newspaper as conductor collected tickets. He said he ran away from home and refused to give his name until Camden police took charge. After a few hours his parents were notified and he was returned home with a potential slipper awaiting.
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N. J
Camden
Willie Wallace
Nine Nurses Receive Diplomas at Children’s Hospital
Nine young women dressed in Greek cross nursing insignia graduated from the Children’s Homoeopathic Hospital. The ceremony at Temple Presbyterian Church featured an opening prayer by Rev. Francis A. Horton and remarks by Rev. Dr. Kerr Boyce Tupper urging compassion for the afflicted. Diplomas were presented by Alfred E. Burk and badges by Dr. August Korndoerfer. The graduates were Bertha Hayes Mary Allen Smith Rena H Whitaker Mary Davidson Sibole Nina Patton Davison Elizabeth Rae Miller Alma Amelia Taylor Margaret Anderson Hough and Charlotte Rogers Schewey.
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Indiana Democrats Split Over Bryan At State Convention
A sharp split forms between conservative and radical Indiana Democrats over William Jennings Bryan at the state convention. A large Bryan portrait moved to Tomlinson Hall for decoration, but leaders plan to keep him from keynote speeches or the platform amid objections from several factions.
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Texas oil combine forms big Star Oil Company
One of the largest Texas oil consolidations since Beaumont opening, the Star Oil Company with 10,000,000 capital stock files charter in Austin. It merges Sun Oil Refining Homer Diamond Crude Texas Geyser Saratoga Texas Standard Light Omaha Texas Oil Eastern Texas Oil and Development Texas Fuel Oil and Texas Petroleum and Refining, all of Beaumont.
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Secretary of State
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Diamond Crude Oil Company
Texas Geyser Oil Company
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Texas Standard Oil and Light Company
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Morgan tapestry tale labeled untrue in London
London dispatch says the claim that J P Morgan donated a $500000 tapestry to King Edward for Westminster Abbey is false. Neither J Pierpont Morgan Jr nor embassy officials have heard of it. J P Morgan Sr is in Venice.
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Carrie Nation Pardoned by Kansas Governor
Carrie Nation, sentenced May 16 to one month in Shawnee County Jail and a $100 fine for smashing saloon fixtures, was pardoned by Governor Stanley. Her fine was remitted as part of the pardon.
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Contract Awarded For Indian Steamer Repair
Boston June 2 The contract for repairing the steamer Indian of the Boston and Philadelphia Steamship Company's fleet, which went ashore at Cuttyhenk while bound for Philadelphia, was awarded today to a New York firm. The Indian is part of the fleet serving Boston and Philadelphia routes.
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Pistol peddler dies after accidental shooting in New Jersey
Morristown New Jersey June 2 An drew Cohen a Dover fancy goods dealer went to Hibernia with revolvers to sell to miners He arrived and met a prospective customer and after a quarrel or confrontation killed himself by a self-inflicted shot The incident occurred after an accidental shooting plan involving the dealer and a potential buyer
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Andrew Cohen
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