Mediation Plan for National Labor Board Backed
Washington readers see a push for a national system of mediation investigation and arbitration inspired by the Industrial Relations Commission. Frank Walsh laid the plan before President Wilson, aiming to curb repeated crises and shift disputes from the Labor Department toward a neutral board with broad powers.
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Washington
D. C
Brotherhood
Frank P. Walsh
Wilson
Commission On Industrial Relations
Walsh
Industrial Relations Commission
National Mediation Commission
Board of Mediation and Investigation
Industrial Commission
Board of Mediation
Commission
Boards of Mediation and Investigation
Secretary of Labor and Commerce
United States Board of Mediation and Conciliation
Department of Labor
Dustrial Relations Commission
A. B. Garretson
Order of
Former chorus girl becomes peerage member in Ashburton sale
Lord and Lady Ashburton, Frances Belmont formerly a chorus girl, plan to sell their Kent estate long held by the family. The property may be subdivided for purchase by tenants. Lord Ashburton previously sold the family library and still owns an Alresford, Hampshire estate used for shooting parties.
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London
Lord
Lord Ashburton
Alresford
Hants
Uruguayan Railways Refit for Oil Burners
BUENOS AYRES August 26 report: Uruguayan railways are refitting locomotives to burn oil due to coal scarcity.
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Buenos Ayres
Uruguay
Speculators Deemed Punishable Over Russian Food Crisis
Aug 26 Many papers unite to urge government action against food speculators causing misery for the masses. The semi official Novoe Vreyma notes grain sugar and other essentials are moved by steamers along the Volga seeking top markets. Prices shift as governors fix caps then disappear, with ships chasing higher rates from Mishni Novogorod to Kasan Saratoff and Tver.
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Petrograd
Novoe Vreyma
Volga
Mishni-Novogorod
Kasan
Saratoff
Nishi- Novogorod
Tver
Germans Hide Gold At Berlin Race Track
Berlin reports that track admission was cut by half for gold payments. Gate receipts topped $19,000 with more than a third paid in gold coin as proof of hidden gold still circulating despite Reichsbank efforts.
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Berlin
Germany
Three Officers Cashiered Over Indian Desert Troop Trek
London reports three high British officers cashiered after an inquiry into a troop trek across the Indian desert that went awry. Ninety men died? Actually nineteen deaths and 185 prostrations from heat. The investigation blamed bungling and inadequate precautions for the deadly journey.
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London
Muskrats Damage Roads Near Kouts in Indiana
In Valparaiso Indiana reports say muskrats burrow under gravel on Kankakee region roads causing three wrecks within two days south of Kouts. A Chicago man with a sling reported a one arm incident and his car with wife and daughter overturned at the same spot where another crash occurred Wednesday. One woman suffered a broken arm. A note mentions a horn device intended to replace door bells.
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Valparaiso
Ind
Kankakee
Kouts
Chicago
Doiran and Bitlis in War Era Map of Balkans East
Doiran near the Serbian Greek frontier is described as a Franco British attack point with rail links to Saloniki. Bitlis in Asia Minor, a Kurdish city on historic routes, is narrated with its fortress ruins, Ottoman rulers, and Kurdish migrations and legends.
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Doiran
Saloniki
Serbia
Greece
Polianino
Constantinople
Seres
Saioniki
Lake
Belasitza
Prasilas
Herodotus
Doiian
Darius
Asia
Vadar
Shar Mountains
Uskup
Gulf of Saloniki
Bitlis
Asia Minor
Bitlis Chai
Tigris
van Plateau
Mesopotamia
Lake van
Mush
Arzerum
Mosul
Alexander the Great
Solyman the Magnificent
Hungary
Tamerlane
Kurdistan
Djarbekir
Amir Qara Uthman
Uthman
Hakkari
Qara Uthman
Sharif Bey
Western Asia
Zohak
Solomon
Nature's cold storage in northern seas of berries and birds
The Los Angeles Times describes a natural cold storage in northern Russia and Siberia where, each Arctic summer, a vast berry crop is preserved under snow. As thaw arrives, birds feast on ripened fruit. berries survive under snow for later consumption as the tundra awakens.
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Los Angeles Times
Russia
Siberia
Henry Seebohm
Petchora
Ural Mountains
Arctic Ocean
Maya Zembia
Sahara
School Supplies: Pencil Boxes and Accessories on Sale
Multiple school items listed with prices including pencil boxes 10 15 25 50 59 75 cents and 1.00. Complete pencil sets leather cases rulers erasers paper slates tablets and bags with Crayola and Prang paints noted. Packaged items cover pencils holders ink bottles and construction paper.
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Prang’s Paints
No Trouble With Language, Glasgow Herald Quip
Quote highlights playful Scottish slang about counting oofs as language. Tommy and Jock discuss saying over there and the joking three oofs versus back one. Reflects regional wit and phonetic humor.
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Tommy
Jock
Glasgow Herald
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H. P. Drought
Thos. H. Jarrell
W. R. Wiseman
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Tonio, Tex
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Danube
Morea
Basil II
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Dempster
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