Notable Happenings in U S and Canada Telegraph Strikes
A digest of the week reports efforts to seize control of telegraph lines by President Small of the commercial telegraphers and a push for a congressional inquiry. Strikes, arbritration talks, and notable deaths and incidents across the United States and abroad are summarized, including labor actions in Chicago, Havana, and New York, and various accidents and political notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Canada
Western Union
Small
Chicago
Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell
Daniel J. Keefe
American Federation of Labor
Havana
Cuba
Chicago Federation
J. Small
New York
Legal Action and Global Tensions Highlight 1908 News
In Washington a major suit seeks to bar Gompers and AFL leaders from using boycott tactics. Panama Canal cost estimates clash with rapid work as 1908 fiscal plans are reassessed. Fort Totten shells injure three. Jersey City police arrest a man in Sophie Kehrer murder. diamonds vanish in Appleton. storms cause damage in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Radcliffe
Des Moines
Theodore A. French
Aeronaut
Lavin Rock
Conn
San Francisco
McPherson
Red Oak
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Lucius H. Perkins
Ridgeway
Astrabula County
Ohio
John E. Owens
Cincinnati
Seaman
Pennsylvania
Capitol Investigation Commission
Stuart
Marathon County Railroad Company
W. D. Gonnor
Wisconsin Railroad Commission
Standard Oil Company
Brodhead
Wis
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company
Milwaukee
F. L. Gilbert
Wisconsin
Landis
Chicago
Treasury Department
Washington
Toledo
Elizabeth Gallighan
St. Louis
Bonaparte
Wall Street
Vermont Association of
Boston
South Hero Island
Lake Champlain
George Couture
Burlington
Fletcher D. Proctor
Vermont
Henry Alexander
Absecon
N. J
Alexander Crow, Jr
Philadelphia
Republic Iron and Steel Company
Western Bar Iron Association
Pittsburg
Board of
Robert Fitzsimmons
Charles J. Fisk
Plainfield
George Wasser
New York
Wasser
Philibert
Casablanca
Gicire
Long Island
Brooklyn
Old Orchard
Weston
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
James W. van Cleave
National Association of Manufacturers
Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell
American Federation of Labor
Panama Canal
Fort Totten
Willets Point
L. I
Jersey City
Sophie Kehrer
West Twenty-second Street
Guiseppe Capuzzo
Charles Davis
Henry Kamp
Appleton
Minnesota
Fort McPherson
Atlanta
United States
Panama Bay
James Chapman
Union Pacific Railroad
Evanston
Wyo
E. E B. Bogue
Department of Forestry
Michigan Agricultural College
Lee
Not to Blame Bars Bartholomew on Profanity
A Cleveland Leader item notes Bartholomew learning rude words from a playmate Cavert. Cavert denies teaching him, and Bartholomew’s claim about his father’s auto prompts Cavert’s mother to investigate. The piece also mocks starch ads and reports a tardy student fleeing a principal after a late bell at The Circle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barthoolomew
Cleveland
Bartholomew
Cavert
Fresh Fuel Sparks New Family Feud Remarks
The married couple's quarrel flares again as a canary bird muses on her family's view of her intelligence. He retorts that she looks bright only by comparison, reigniting the dispute with renewed anger.
Bathing Suit Dispute Referred to Arbitration
A family dispute over a daughter's request for a bathing suit was settled through arbitration after the girl threatened to bathe without one. The resolution process was described as an informal arbitration of the household matter.
To Suppose Afterlife Quarrel Mocked By Mrs Tartleigh
Mrs Tartleigh asks if dying means meeting all husbands in heaven. Mrs Muchwedde retorts that she expects heaven rather than encounters with husbands. The exchange reads as a witty line from Young's Magazine.
Grape-Nuts praised as balanced health food by user testimonials
Claims say one pound of Grape-Nuts yields as much usable nourishment as ten pounds of meat or bread. Testimonies include a woman who gained ten pounds on Grape-Nuts after meat and bread, with notes on its weight effects on corpulent and undernourished individuals. Ends with slogan There's a Reason.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moman
Weillville
Hidden sorrow and starch guide gentle living
A discreet narrator comments on a woman’s hidden sorrow and her husband’s boredom. The piece then extols proper laundering and starch, praising Defiance Starch for stiffening textiles without thickening. It ends with a George Eliot quote and a slogan for Lewis’ Single Binder cigars and a German proverb about life.
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Dulion
Thomas F. Shay
Shay & Cogan
Obediah Lum Sypher
Fast Orange
James Walkley Sweet
New Haven
War Department
Leyte
Philippines
John Schmidt
Los Angeles
Cal
Tenderloin
Edward Lawrence
Joliet
Ill
Desplaines River
Channahan
Ruth Peterson
Tottenville
Staten Island
Jarvis
John Woods
East Brookfield
Mass
John Charcot
South Pole
Aurora
DuBois
Idaho
Porter
Bristol
Steeplechase Island
Bridgeport
Tiverton
R. I
Robert Allan Pinkerton
Pinkerton National Detective Agency
Bremen
Emma Leach
Cole
Jim
Bob Younger
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Duluth
International Socialist Congress
Stuttgart
Sandy Wook Proving Grounds
Maj
Dunn
Ordnance Corps
Madeline Wassner Langlotz
Amagansett, S. 1
Warren Hastings
George Eliot
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria, Il
Dodds
Carters
IY Tleer
Southwest
Texas
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
W. S. ST. George
Wainwright Ride
Sen- Thomas County
Nebraska
Wall
Anderson
Grand Island
Indelphia
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