Anthracite Strike Ends With Wage Win and Higher Coal Prices
Harrisburg reports the anthracite strike ending after an agreed two year contract between operators and the United Mine Workers. Key terms include a 10 percent wage raise, a five hour work day, and a revised wage structure to deter individual underpayments. Prices to consumers rise 75 cents to $1 a ton, and the state treasury gains about $800,000 yearly from coal taxes. The tri-district convention in Scranton will ratify, with final signing in Harrisburg.
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Harrisburg
United Mine Workers’ Union
Gov. Pinchot
Scranton
Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Wilkesbarre
Seven U S Navy Destroyers Lost Off Santa Barbara
Dense fog drove seven United States Navy destroyers and the Pacific Mail liner Cuba onto rocks near Arguello light 75 miles north of Santa Barbara. The passenger steamer foundered on a reef off San Miguel Island 35 miles southeast of the port. Twenty five enlisted men from the destroyers died, with all destroyers reported total losses.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
United States Navy
Cuba
Navy
Arguello Light
San Miguel Island
Ireland Earns World League Admission by Unanimous Vote
Geneva reports the Irish Free State recommended for admission to the League of Nations by unanimous MEMBship commission vote. Speeches of congratulation came from numerous prominent league representatives across other nations.
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Ireland
World League
Geneva
Irish Free State
League of Nations
Commission of Memberships
League
Chicago Railroad Offers Free Transport Of Relief Foods
President Hale Holden of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy announces free movement of all foods donated for Japanese earthquake relief. The railroad also contributes 5000 dollars through the Red Cross.
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Chicago
Hale Holden
Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad
Red Cross
Wrecked Pacific Marlner Cuba Rescued Off San Miguel Island
United States destroyer Reno rescued all passengers of the Pacific Marlner Cuba after it wrecked on a reef off the southeast corner of San Miguel Island according to a government radio station report.
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Los Angeles
Cuba
San Miguel Island
Reno
Robbery in Florence District Netted $9,000
An automobile carrying 9000 pounds sterling and driven by Purchasing Agent Rosborough of the metropolitan utilities district was held up in the Florence district suburb. The robbers escaped with the haul.
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Omaha
Rosborough
Metropolitan Utilities District
Florence
Nashua Mills Burn in Nashua Iowa
Nashua woolen mills in Nashua Iowa were consumed by a fire of unknown origin that started on the third floor. Loss near 60 000 dollars, partially covered by insurance.
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Nashua Mills
Nashua
Iowa Supreme Court to Open September Term
The Iowa Supreme Court will convene Tuesday to open the September term. Iowa officials attended the state fair in large numbers while statewide projects progress from a $55,000 consolidated school in Vi ola township Audubon county to preparations for the total solar eclipse visibility in Council Bluffs.
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Iowa Supreme Court
Viola Township
Audubon County
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Japan
Thomas W. Lambert
State Board of Education
Sabula
N. M. Ingall
Shenandoah
Cleveland
Hall
Lancaster
Exline
Young People’s Federation
Central West Presbyterian and Evangelical Union
Cedar Rapids
American Veterinary Association
Des Moines
Toronto Canada
Daniel Boone Trail
William H. Richards
F. M. Richards
Montgomery County
Citizens Military Training Camp
Fort Des Moines
Officers’ Reserve Corps
University of Iowa
Storm Lake
Polk County Sunday School Association
First Methodist Church
M. E. Lundin
New London
Lundin
Monroe
Oskaloosa
Joint Stock and Bank
Chicago
News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers
Digest of diverse items from Washington and across the nation. Bureau of Mines reports on anthracite from lignite and shale oil retorting projects. Ambassadors report safety and damage in Tokyo. Legal and international actions include World Court resolution and Mexico recognition. Local incidents include a large oil tank strike, a roaming kangaroo in Memphis, and a whisky seizure off Long Island.
Noted Cellist Emil Diederich Dies in Sanitarium at Fifty Seven
Personal Prof Emil Diederich once a soloist with the Thomas orchestra died in a sanitarium near Crown Point Indiana at age fifty seven. He went blind the day his wife died years ago. The report lists other notable deaths including Judge William C Van Fleet and Rt Rev Thomas Sebastian Byrne.
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Emil Diederich
Thomas Orchestra
Crown Point
Ind
Thomas Sebastian Byrne
Nashville
Tenn
International Affairs and Disaster Headlines in Brief
Foreign Secretary Hughes proposed a U S Canada issues board in Montreal. quake victims in Japan feared 250000 dead with Tokyo to Osaka devastation. Fire and bombing disrupt Tokyo river and park ponds and a New South Wales mine explosion killed 28. Robberies in Spain and shipwrecks in Holland reported. Owsley awarded Legion of Honor in Düsseldorf. Anastasia family plans body transport to New York.
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Hughes
Montreal
United States
Canada
Tokyo
Japan
Osaka
Anastasia
Greece
William B. Leeds
Indiana
London
New York
War era enrollments surge say college leaders
President Davidson of Illinois Wesleyan University notes higher domestic enrollments in schools and colleges across the nation due to World War II era army intelligence tests and the war. The sighting of industrial fires and aviation events also marks the period with multiple incidents and demonstrations.
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Davidson
Illinois Wesleyan University At
Bloomington, Ill
Opera Wait Delights Shattered by Sudden Embrace
A fragment from Standard Times captures a tense scene where a woman impatiently laments missing the opera while awaiting her mother. The exchange shifts to tours and ownership as a man retorts acrimoniously, and the moment ends with a kiss as she cries out in sudden emotion.
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George
The Cuticura Toilet Trio Ad Card
The advertisement promotes Cuticura Soap Ointment and Talcum as a daily toilet routine to cleanse purify soothe heat and powder and perfume every toilet table should have them.
Dam proposed to dam Belle Isle straits and alter climate
The Montreal Family Herald questions a proposed seventy million dollar dam across the Belle Isle straits between Newfoundland and Labrador. It suggests a new Arctic current would disrupt climate and wonders about potential cross border water level disputes and tariffs.
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Canada
Atlantic
Pacific
Ingland
Canadian Atlantic
United States
Montreal Family Herald
What Are Yours Mr B V Lucas Favorite Scents
Mr B V Lucas lists his preferred scents including brake fern crushed walnut leaves crushed mint sauce newly split wood in a copse and gardener's rubbish fire. He also mentions an unsmoked briar pipe cinnamon ripe apples tea just opened and coffee just ground.
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B. V. Lucas
Switchmen Needed for Golden Opportunity
Classified notice calling for switchmen with the skill to reliably throw the switch and seize opportunities. Emphasizes the need for fast, accurate action and capable personnel.
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Washington
U. S. Bureau of Mines
America
Bureau of Mines
Bureau
Rocky Mountain
Ambassador Wood
American Bar Association
Minneapolis
World Court
Orient Oil Refining Company
Wichitas Falls, Ten
Memphis
New York City
Department of Agriculture
Gladys Millett
Short Beach
Long Island
N. Y
Coast Guard
Internal Revenue
Blair
President Coolidge
Wilhelmina of
the Netherland
U. S
Republic of Mexico
Pan-American International Women’s Committee
Arturo Padre
pViCeay
Man Alterie
William C. van Fleet
United States District Court
Angier B. Drake
Benjamin N. Drake
Long Island Sound
Indian Harbor
Greenwich
Conn
J. Campbell Cantrill
Georgetown
Kentucky
Louisville
David R. Beatty
Texas
Los Angeles Country Club
Beaumont Field
Tampico
Mex
Republic of France
Mexico
Jules Blondel
Foreign Office
Mexico City
Jean Perier
Bell Bird
New South Wales
Bank of Spain
Gijon
Spain
Ymuiden
Holland
Klupfel
Borkum Island
Copenhagen
Jutland
Alvin M. Owsley
American Legion
Ruhr
Legion of Honor
DeGoutte
Duesseldorf
Pulaski Iron Company
Pulaski, Va
Dayton
Grand Army of the Republic
Milwaukee
Wis
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Philadelphia
Eddystone
T. B. Roberson
Tom West
el Dorado
Philadelphia Rapid Transit
Thomas E. Mitten
Enor
Firorida
Wlnner
Hillcrest Farms
Moorehaven
Forrest Lake
Sanford
Pla
Sioux City
Eles
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