Illinois Mine Massacre Ends In Bloodshed Near Herrin
A correspondent reports 48 captives were killed as strikers attacked the Southern Illinois Coal Company mines near Herrin. Dead include mine superintendent C. K. McDowell and civil engineer James Shoemaker. total deaths cited around 75 with captives scattered in woods. Police and state officials organize search as riot aftermath unfolds.
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Southern Illinois Coal Company
Herrin
Til
Southern Winds Coal Company
Black
Springfield
Toa Nonunion
Southern Wlinois Conk Company
C. K. McDowell
James Shoemaker
William Lester
Coal Company
McDowell
Johnston City Road
Loverty
Johnson City
Marion
Melvin Thaxton
Col. Hunter
Mouth suction currents remove bacteria in minutes
A Johns Hopkins professor reports the mouth clears bacteria by muscular suction within 15 to 30 minutes. The suction pulls material toward the rear of the mouth without lodging on tonsils or throat walls, offering a mechanical, self-cleaning action in the oral cavity.
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Johns Hopkins University
Government to Combat It and Labor Board Support
President Harding backs the federal railway labor board as unions threaten a July 1 strike. The article notes wage adjustments, potential government action, and ongoing hearings on 17 rail cases, with Chicago unrest and the tariff debate intertwining with the bonus bill and other fiscal measures.
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Harding
Labor Board
Russia
Hague
de Valera
Federal Railway Labor Board
Transportation Ag
Preale
Spegeyiret
Ben W. Hooper
Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
Railroad Labor Board
Indiana Shortnote on 1922 23 highway funds and notices
Indiana reports a $1 805 004 share of federal highway funds for 1922 23 to be matched by the state under new post office bill limits. The act lowers government participation to 16 250 per mile next year and 15 000 per mile thereafter, with bridges over twenty feet exempt. Additional items: postal minister examinations July 15 for Indiana towns with salaries listed, Cypress creek drainage bid in Warrick County under cost, and various local notices across cities.
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Washington, D. C
Secretary of Agriculture
Post Office
Indiana
Albion
Atlanta
Cloverdale
Darlington
Geneva
Goodlind
Lynn
Mulberry
Pendleton
Plainfield
Remington
Rising Sun
Seatrsburg
Summitville
Thorntown
Vevay
Waynetown
Zionsville
Boonville
Cypress Creek
Warrich County
Warrick County
West Terre Haute
Clinton
Greensburg
Decatur County
Indianapolis
Marion County
Marion County Tuberculosis Association
McCray
Knox County
Vige
Sullivan
Marion
Grant County Brotherhood of Thrashcrafuit
Petersburg
Alan Miller
Pike
George Miller
Miler
Velpen
Indiana State Firemen's Association
George W. Applegate
Corydon National Bank
Ben Apellegate
Wilson BE. Cook
A. B. Anderson
Walter J. Riley
East Chicago
Interstate Harbor Commission
Indias
Wiineis
Meeray
Oou Harbor
Wolt Lake
Lake Michigate
Commer
Valparaiso
Porter County
Terre Haute
John L. Lewis
Kentucky
State Board of Health
Noblesville
Logansport
Edward Carson
Della Carson
Jesse Carson
Mary Carson
Harry Demsey
Onward
Thomas A. Riley
Free Employment Service
Taverus
Laporte
United States Volunteer Naval Reserve Force
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Illinois
Atx
Colt
Sam N. Hunter
Adj
Carlos Black
Maj
Robert Davis
Carbondale
Gen. Black
Robert M. Medill
Shoemaker
Chicago
Edward W. Pickard
American Federation of Labor
Cincinnati
W. H. Johnston
Machinists
The
A. F
Congress
Supreme Court
Ilinois
Williamson County
Lewis
United Mine Workers
T Pashane
Small
State National Guard
Senate
Walsh
Lenroot
Hig
House
Moairman Lisker
Treasury Department
Three Mile
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Nicaragua
Oviet
International Commission
Litvinoff
Ireland
Ramon de Vilera
Dail Eireann
Irish Free State
Dail
London
Sir Henry Wilson
Imperial General Staff
British Army
Ulster
China
Li Yuan-hung
Chen
Canton
Sun Yat Sen
Pekin
Kiangsi
Nanchang
Pproval
United States
Privy Council
Washington
Tokio
Morton Howell
Ohio
Egypt
Howell
Land of the
Enator
Frank Kellogg
Minnesota
Annan Pickie Olesen
Thomas Meighen
Olesen
McAdoo
Isetta Jewell Brown
West Virginia
Jeffersonville
Indiana Reformatory
South Bend
Ladies of the Maccabees
Bloomington
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