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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1919
Page
2
The House approved by 244 to 16 a measure granting permanent admiral rank to Admiral Benson and Rear Admiral Sims and sent it to the Senate. A wide range of world and domestic items follow, including Italy’s credit expansion, labor talks, and political notices.
Personal Maj. J L Crossthwaite Jr forty three assistant director of operations for the United States shipping board on the Great Lakes was killed in an automobile accident in Cleveland Ohio. James W Osborne prominent prosecutor and former assistant district attorney of New York was found dead in bed by his son. Civil war veterans attend the fifty third national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in Columbus Ohio. Lord Charles Beresford died at the home of the Duke of Portland in Berry Dale near Caithness Scotland where he had been staying. Spl de Eden Briggs Thenas seventy seven years old chairman of the executive committee and board of directors and former president of the Lehigh Valley railroad died at his Morristown New Jersey home.
Reports say foreign Linn Yeiners at the garrison in Fermoy Cork looted the town with crowds wrecking 60 shops. Military and civilian casualties reported as unrest spread across the region amid ongoing fighting.
Secret societies pledged to aid a Soviet government have formed in three Chicago high schools. Two men were killed at Pontiac, Illinois, including guard Charles Kruger and inmate John Kelly who were shot to death.
In Hammond Indiana on September 11 a clash between 200 American workers and 800 foreign- born strikers at the Standard Steel Car plant escalated as police and guards used automatic weapons. Three men were killed and over twenty wounded as rioters and officers battled near Highland and Columbia streets. Police Captains Strong and Rinbach commanded a heavy, armed force including vigilance committee members, while Thomas Skuba led the striker group waving an American flag.
The University of Chicago boosts faculty salaries by 95000 dollars covering about 200 to 300 professors for the next school year, announced by business manager Wallace Heckman.
John Mitchell former president of the United Mine Workers of America and a prominent labor leader died at Post Graduate Hospital in New York. His death marks the loss of a key figure in American labor history.
Milk producers announce a retail price increase in St Louis from 15 to 16 cents per quart effective Thursday. The move reflects higher costs in the dairy supply chain.
Basle September 11 The American steamship Tanama formerly sailing from New York with a cargo of frozen beef caught fire while moored at a Bremerhaven dock in Germany. No further details on casualties or damage are provided.
Spanish City Short of Bread reports a severe bread shortage in Barcelona caused by a flour drought. The piece notes churchmen using candles and Baptists dipping, and comments on a woman sweeping raising dust while contrasting expectations set by mothers and sons.
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