Cox Pledge to Labor Outlined at Minnesota State Fair
Governor James M. Cox promised a detailed labor program if elected president. The pledges included halting profiteering through supply and demand, expanding transportation and marketing facilities, limiting cold storage time for foods, protecting workers right to organize, and using government to safeguard life and property while upholding free speech and assembly.
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Herbert W. Walker
Minneapolis
James M. Cox
Girl Bites Ball Cover and Dies in England
Ivy Taylor a farmer's daughter in Blackburn England dies after biting the cover off a golf ball and swallowing the liquid center. The incident occurred on September 6 and authorities report the bizarre accident as the cause of death.
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Blackburn
England
Ivy Taylor
New English Marchioness Emerges From Beauty and Drama
Milton Bronner reports that Irene Richards, a London mill owner’s daughter who studied singing and acted on stage, has become Marchioness Queensberry after marrying Viscount Drumlanrig. The couple, now touring South America, have a one year old daughter and a history of romance and wartime service. Numerous actress wives have joined nobility in recent years, suggesting a fashion for theatrical brides among the peerage.
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London
Dan Cupid
Beauty
Marchioness
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Viscount Drumlanrig
Eiven
Marquis
Johannesburg
South Africa
South America
Food Ministry
Irene Richards
Jean de Nesske
Prince of Wale
the and Co
Evie Carew
Daly's Theatre
R. G. Winn
St. Oswald
Edward Fitzgerald
Mary Etheridge
Lord Dangan
Earl Cowley
Pearl Aufrere
Connie Gilchrist
Orkney
Belle Bilton
Clancarty
Eva Carrington
Haren de Clifford
Anna Hobinson
Douglas Pleads for Sanity and Justice
Five hundred Seattle Eagles and friends toured to Anacor tea on the steamer Washington for the opening and dedication of the new $40,000 Fraternal Order of Eagles hall in that city. Malcolm Douglas gave the principal address urging calm, patriotism, and adherence to constitutional processes.
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Seattle Eagles
Anacortea
Washington
Order of Eagles
Malcolm Douglas
Seattle Aerie
Disabled Soldiers Turn to Sandwich-Board Ads in Paris
In Paris on September 6, disabled soldiers, greatly maimed, use back of their chairs as sandwich boards bearing advertisements. They seek activity beyond pensions, hoping to attract attention despite illiteracy among most Hindu women who cannot read or write.
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Chicago
Garfield
Paris
Sing Sing Convict Plans Own Funeral
OSSINING New York September 6 Plans for his own funeral are being made by Frank Kelly a man awaiting death in Sing Sing for murder Kelly wrote to a Brooklyn undertaker for the latest style in coffins and the undertaker has called on him with his samples.
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Ossining
N. Y
Frank Kelly
Sing Sing
Kelly
Brooklyn
Bridgeton Halls Public Spankings Used on Unruly Boys
In Bridgeton New Jersey a back room at the town hall is reported to be used for public spankings of unruly boys. The practice is described as organized within the local government facility. No further context on authority or frequency is provided.
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Bridgeton
N. J
Workers Hear Harding Talk at Labor Day Picnic
In Marion Ohio on September 6 Warren G Harding urged labor to favor a protective tariff with higher productivity to cut living costs without reducing wages. He praised honest toil and urged joint employer and worker committees to restore close contact and mutual interest. He defended the Cummins Esch railroad bill and opposed the Plumb plan, noting labor support. In MEDFORD Oregon a jailer absent, prisoner Black escapes from county jail at Jacksonville.
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Marion
Ohio
Warren G. Harding
Harding
Medford
Ore
Jacksonville
Trade union leader demands home rule for Ireland
J H Thomas, a British labor leader, urged full dominion home rule for Ireland in the opening address at the Trades Union Congress in Portsmouth. He warned of a potential struggle that could shake the empire if not granted and said united workers were ready to challenge parliamentary government.
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Portsmouth
Eng
Ireland
J. H. Thomas
Trades Union Congress
Thomas
Congress
Difference Between Good and Worthless Bonds Addressed
Andrew Price of John BK, Price & Co. will give a talk titled The Difference Between Good and Worthless Bonds at the Bon Marche grilly on Tuesday noon.
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Andrew Price
John Bk, Price & Co
Bon Marche
Hays Replies to Charges of Cox
New York Sept. 6 A reply from Will H. Hays chairman of the Republican National Committee to Gov Cox charges includes a written statement he read to the Senate committee in Chicago stating tentative quotas were fixed by the treasurer's office and aimed high for each state He urged the public to judge Cox's latest accusation and noted his claim of a 15 million dollar campaign fund.
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New York
Cox
Will H. Hays
Republican National Committee
Senate
Chicago
Hays
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