Striking Packers Jam Chicago and Kansas City Packing Plants
Strikes ripple through major packing houses with 500 to 600 workers at Vilas Robbins and others refusing to work except on a restored 1893 scale. Chicago firms adjust by hiring replacements while warning notices curb quitting before hours. Wages in Kansas City tied to Chicago outcomes as the race riots in Alabama unfold with further corps of deputies on duty.
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Chicago
Vilas & Robbins
Armour & Co
Con- Way
Armour Plant
Chicago Packing Company
Morris & Co
Halstead Street
Chicago River
Alabama
Birmingham
Ala
Cardiff
Blossburg
O’brien
Ed Ellis
Adam Samuels
Ellis
Samuels
Kansas City
Lake Shore
Michigan Southern Ry
M Byron
P Humphrey
J Smith
St Louis World's Fair Fund Progress Report
The St Louis World's Fair committee of 200 met with the mayor delivering an address on fundraising. Substantial progress was reported toward a $5,000,000 stock total with $600,000 remaining, and steam railroad interests are expected to subscribe at least that amount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Rains Slow Harvest Across Abilene Kansas
Heavy rains hindered harvesting in the Abilene area this week. Fields partly cut remain untreated awaiting dry weather. Bottom land fields will take days to resume work. Weeds have grown above the wheat, troubling farmers and complicating binder operation.
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Abilene
Kan
Kansas imposes tuberculosis quarantine on cattle
The Kansas livestock sanitary board will publish an order on July 6 that places a quarantine on cattle from Illinois Indiana Ohio Michigan and Iowa. Tests at Chicago and Elgin showed many Illinois cattle dairy cattle infected with tuberculosis, the category shipped to Kansas.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas Livestock Sanitary Board
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Iowa
Chicago
Elgin
Kansas
Widow donates Kansas farm and Missouri land to Lane University
Mary J. Mutchier of Fort Scott Kansas gives a 160 acre Vernon county Missouri farm and a city block to Lane university United Brethren college at Lecompton Kansas. In return she will receive a professorship bearing her name at the college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lane University
Fort Scott
Kan
Mary J. Mutchier
Vernon County
United Brethren College
Lecompton
Strike on a Kansas Courthouse
Yates Center Kansas June 29 Work stoppage at the local courthouse described as a strike disrupting county operations and prompting officials to seek resolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Yates Center
Kan
Striking Masons Halt Courthouse Work Over Pay and Architect
The courthouse construction is halted by a stone mason and helper strike demanding higher wages and the architect's discharge. Contractor Brewster may employ Black laborers. The strike leader is W. M. Faulke, identified as a Roosevelt Rough Rider.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brewster
W. M. Faulke
Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Ed Ford Very Sick Ex-deputy Clerk
Ed P. Ford former county official is gravely ill with a blocked bowel condition. His illness is reported by local editors.
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Ed Ford
Ed P. Ford
Scenic Rocky Mountain Tours by Denver Rio Grande
The Scenic Line of the World by the Denver and Rio Grande Railway offers two routes through the Rockies for Colorado Utah and New Mexico travelers and transcontinental visitors. Tickets via lines to Cripple Creek and connections to Utah Idaho Montana Oregon and Washington via Ogden Gateway. Contact Hooer G P T A Denver for pamphlets and place orders at 412 South Kentucky Street.
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Rocky Mountains
Denver & Rio Grande
Utah
Idaho
Montana
Oregon
Washington
Rio Grande Western Railway
Great Salt Lake
Salt Lake City
Temple City
Salt Lake
Utah Valley
California
Rio Grand Western Ry
Denver
Colorado Springs
Manitou
Leadville
Genwood Springs
Ogden
Pullman
San Francisco
Portland
E. Copland
Owings Building
Chicago
F. A. Wadleigh
Missouri Pacific
British Columbia
Yoming
Colorado
New Mexico
Arizona
Texas
Louisiana
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
North
South Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Tennessee
Kentucky
Los Angeles
G. V. Buchanan
Pacific Ticket
Great Salt Lake Route ad invites travelers westward
Railroad notices trumpet reduced California rates via Rio Grande Western and detailed stopover points from Denver to Salt Lake City. Beside, Missouri Pacific and Rock Island promos tout one way returns to California and Rockies with prices, dates, and city agencies.
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California
San Diego
Redding
National Educational Association
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway
Los Angeles
Great Rock Island
John Sebastian
G. P
Chicago
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Walter Baker & CO
Technes
Wtlter Baker & CO. Limited
Dorchester, Mass
Ags
Mary
P. Brandt Grocer CO
P. Brandt
Delaware Street
Kansas City, S. A
Potter
P. L. Potter & Co
Ohio Street
J. Waldman
Prop
The
Chicago & Alton R. R
ST. Louis and
Ksas City
Palace
Chicago & Alton Railroad
D. Bowes
James Charlton
Western
N. Broadway
Spot Cash Grocer
Sac Busnel
P. Hoffman
Red Rock
West Main
Joan
Sedalia, Mo
John N. Daiby
A. P. Morey
R. H. Mores
W. A. Latimer
Ass’t
J.N. Dolby
R. H. Moses
Henry W. Harris
D. d. Smith
Qlerts
N.H Gentry
Chas. H. McAninch
Samuel
Goll
Morris Harter
Jas. T. Monizy
Packers
Allen
Allen S
le Roy
N.Y
William Dudley
Boston
Servant Harker Drug Co
J. J. Baker
East Pacific
W. M. Gallaher
Bryan, Pa
Harker Drug Co
Henry Anderson
City
Park Commissioners
Liberty Park
DeWitt
Servant-Harker Drug Co
E. C. DeWitt &Co
Servant-Harker Drug Company
Jordan Washington
Metropoli
Tan Barber Shop
Fleischmann’s Pharmacy
South Kentucky Street
Pass Hanana
Chisago
Superior Meals
Reilap
St. Paul
Isaac P. Lusk
Pacific
Shreveport
New Orleans
L. S. Thorne
Dallas
E. P. Turner
Fen. Pas. and
Ticket Agt Texas
Fleischmann
Missouri Pacific Rates
Sedalia
J. W. McCuarm, P
T. A
Tacoma
Seattle
Spokane
Pueblo
Glenwood Springs
Minneapolis
Duluth
Superiors
Cincinnati
Rock Island
Tri Tick
O Denyer
Cumberland P
Missouri River
A. H. Moffet
U. S
Hough
Remington Standard Typewriter
Yckoff, Seamans & Benedic
Locust Street
St. Louis, Mo
C. Shafer
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