Railroad Plan to Get Rates Down
Statement by Thomas DeWitt Cuyler, chairman of the Association of Railway Executives, following a Chicago meeting on October 14. Railroads plan to seek wage reductions to lower rates and pass gains to the public, arguing current costs and maintenance deficits require action to restart industrial activity.
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Thomas de Witt Cuyler
The
Association of Railway Executives
Chicago
Thomas DeWitt Cuyler
United States
United States Railroad Labor Board
Labor Boards
Interstate Commerce Commission
Railroads Seek Wage Reductions to Cut Public Costs
Railroads argue unskilled labor cost averages forty cents an hour while nearby industries pay twenty cents. They claim 1919 payrolls topped 1.2 billion dollars for unskilled labor and urge abrogation of federal control rules. They plan to ask the railroad labor board for wage cuts before reducing rates nationwide.
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Labor Board
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Railroad Labor Board
Boston Women Seize Coffee Stock in 1777 Hoarding Clash
Abigail Adams reports a band of Boston women, possibly as many as a hundred, marched to a warehouse during July 1777, demanded the owner’s keys, opened the hoarded stock of coffee, and hauled it away in a trunk amid a crowd of onlookers. The act follows scarcity fears caused by merchants hiding goods.
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Boston
Abigail Adams
United States
Abigail
John
Philadelphia
Those Who Dare Not Smile by Oliver Wendell Holmes
An essayish reflection on solemnity and the idea of a smileless eternity. The speaker notes how some people banish joy in life, mistaking grimness for virtue, and recounts a street encounter with a cultured individual whose austere gaze chills those he passes.
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Heaven
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Extraordinary Time Keeping Methods Through History
Time reckoning faced persistent error as early calendars used a lunar month of 29 or 31 days. A 12 month year of 354 days misaligned with seasons, drifting by over three months in a decade. Attempts by Jews and Greeks to insert seven intercalary months in 19 years offered a rough correction but remained imperfect.
Trophies of the Chase Motorson
A chaotic dialogue fragment recalls a confrontation and a collection of trophies. The speaker jokes about hitting someone and cutting a button for a trophy, mentioning smoke related habits and a wife named Henrietta influencing public-spirited behavior.
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Motorson
Taste Alone Not Sufficient for True Reading
Quote from Isaac Disraeli notes that two readers of equal taste may react differently to the same book. One gains the author’s ideas and new sentiment, while the other ends with mere distraction and no lasting reading pleasure.
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Art Couumand
Isaac Disraeli
Modern detective methods using X rays and fingerprints
The article explains that detectives use X rays and finger print analysis. Fingers are dipped in a metallic solution and wiped to remove metal from ridges but leave furrows. X-ray photographs then reveal distinctive ridge details that can be enlarged to show minute features.
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Vons Clagr
Satisfaction in effort and self-respect in defeat
A reflection on doing one’s best, noting that success is not guaranteed but the pursuer earns pride from not being defeated by careless actions. The passage emphasizes personal integrity and the value of effort over outcome.
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