Labor and Capital Unm. Plan for Steel Workers Union
New York reports labor and capital plans by Pierpont Morgan to create a labor union of steel workers. A profit sharing scheme would make every United States Steel employee a co operator, building on Carnegie plant practices since 1892. Details withheld as plans mature.
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New York
D. Pierpont Morgan
United States Steel Corporation
Great Steel Trust
United Steel Corpora
Chas. Schwab
Schwab
Morgan
I T
Steel Corporation
United Bates Steel Corporation
Carnegie
United States Snel Corporation
Will Plow 40 Acros Day
St Louis August 17 Dr Ri Gatling inventor of the Gatling gun turns to farming with a 4 motor plow claims it will transform agriculture. He asserts the plow guided by lem in will break the surface of a thirty acre field in a single day.
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St. Louis
Ri. J. Gatling
Gatling
Iemin
Groton Tridge Plant to Close Indefinitely
Groton Tridge company of Groton recently absorbed by United States Steel posted a notice that the mills will close indefinitely. Manager Lane says the plant will be shut for at least three months. The plant employs four hundred men and for fourteen years has sustained the iron industry there.
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How
N.Y
Groton Tridge Company
Groton
United States Steel Company
Lane
Iroton
Joliet Mills Closed After Meeting In Joliet Mississippi
Joliet Mills in Joliet Mississippi closed following a meeting of Amalgamated workers. Vice president Davis and Secretly Wighe addressed the crowd requesting contract fulfillment before quitting. About 3,000 idle workers will be supported by those still employed.
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Joliet
Amalgamated
Davis
Wighe
Board of Health Demolishes 130 Bars in Aug. 18 Action
The Board of Wealth Owiers Th Tupela reports that 130 barrels of beer were publicly destroyed by order of the board of health. Liquor had been secured from local joints and was seized, to be charged in the city prism. Owners faced court proceedings as authorities deemed the liquor a menace to city wealth.
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Board of Wealth
Tupela
Board of Health
Kansans City
Independence
Nogeoes
Contests in Oklahoma homestead entries to be forwarded
Washington Aug 10 Acting Secretary Ryan announced a new rule for telegraphic appeals on rejected homestead applications in the Oklahoma lands. Contests filed within sixty days will go to the general land office and then to the Interior Secretary for prompt decision. Officials note only one ground of contest likely to trouble Wood: that the selection was for speculation, not a homestead.
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Washington
Enterior
Ryan
General Land Siftiea
Secretary of the Interior
Printer Arrested In Counterfeiting Case In Topeka
Topeka Kansas August 16 Hernan Johnson a printer was arrested charged with counterfeiting small coins under one dollar. He confessed and directed officers to molds and dies on East Twelfth street. The devices were cleverly made of type metal and plaster of Paris, with ink and apparatus for producing coins at local stands.
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Topeka
Kan
Hernan Johnson
East Twelfth Street
Paria
Juhmeo
Scarcity of Wheat Cars Drives Kansas Grain Blockade
Directors of the Commercial club and Transportation Bureau meet along with board of trade managers to address a grain bottleneck. Kansas elevators are full, wheat piled at way stations including 5,000 bushels at Ashville, Cloud County, with more inbound. Rail lines blame shippers. shippers blame railroads as grain sits on tracks awaiting shelter. Also reported, Judge Fisher rules the Morrell saloon law repeals an injunction clause as temperance groups vow to appeal to the state supreme court.
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Kansas City
Commercial Club
Transportation Bureau
Board of Trade
Kansans
Ashville
Cloud County
Kans
Sants Fo
Oklahoma
Kansas
Grataria
Grin
Morrell
Ludge Fisher
District Court
Karsaw City
Kan
Supreme Court
Mass meeting protests quarantine officer action in Honolulu
A large gathering of Japanese residents in Honolulu denounces Dr L E Cofer United States quarantine officer for Subjecting 5 Okabe and his wife to a physical examination on July 25 Delegations pledged to forward resolutions to the Japanese minister in Washington and to President McKinley. Strike ends in Kansas City machinists dispute with return to work expected gradually after thirteen weeks of stoppage.
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Honolulu
San Pronomo
L. E. Cofer
United States
Okabe
Washington
McKinley
Kanass City
Kansas City
Native Bluegrass Harvest Records Totals in Kansas
On the Hale farm in Madison 240 acres of English blue grass ripened before cutting yielding 3,350 bushels of seed sold at 38 dollars per bushel for a total of 10,050 dollars. A nearby farm yielded 900 bushels from 40 acres. Forty tons of alfalfa sold for 100 dollars per ton in the staple.
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Madison
Hale
Patchwork of 1900s Oklahoma town notes and claims
The snippet recounts Ponca City and Hobart framing events with stray lines about Mes Garland selecting land her turn, Hobart hallmarks scaled for workers, El Reno Lawton box rushes, and Lawton’s booming early city life listing lawyers, restaurants, real estate dealers, hospitals, churches, newspapers, shops, and services amid a chaotic snapshot of town-building and settlement patterns.
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Lawton
Aug. C
Thie City
Officiey
Durber
Deetors
Deptietey the Watchmakers
Missouri Tools for Homesteaders Draw Big Interest
Kansas City dispatch quotes Major Hungrdt praising Missouri as the premier state for homesteads. He notes 345,000 acres available for entry and 900,000 acres open in Dodge City and 1,000,400 acres in Arkansas, with 160 to 320 acre options and title upon cash payment of $1.2 per acre. He claims no five year wait.
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Kansas City
Ine Journal
Major Hungrrdt
Missouri
Union
Dodge City
Kansas
Arkansas
United States
Kingfisher
C. T
Wader
Trainload of Horses Passes Through Arkansas City
A train of twenty three cars moved through Arkansas City on August 1. Yardmaster Reed notes it is the longest horse train he has handled at the yards. The horses, from Texas and New Mexico, were bought by government agents for the regular army. All are good sized and none are white.
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Arkansas City
Reed
Texas
New Mexico
Union Jack Torn Down in Malta Riot
Aug 10 Malta reports growing discontent over language questions as demonstrators tear the union jack in the streets and marbles of Queen Victoria’s jubilee status are damaged with acid amid urban unrest in Valetta.
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Valetta
Island of Malta
Dead Letter Office to Receive Large El Reno Mail Dump
Kansas City dispatch reports the Washington Dead Letter Office will get a large consignment from El Reno. An estimated 1,500 to 7,000 pounds of uncalled mail, including many letters with cash, awaits processing as inspectors guard the backlog. More consignments are expected from neighboring towns leading to increased workload for the postal service.
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Kansas City
Washington, D. C
el Kono
Postal Service
el Reno
Washington
Gompers on steel strike and price cuts
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, writes in the federation’s official organ that the iron and steel workers face a giant trust. He argues the Amalgamated Association could have averted the conflict only if it dissolved, resulting in continuous price reductions to the lowest possible point.
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New York
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Iron and Steel Workers of America
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Water and Climate and Growth in Hobart Region
Hobart reports ideal water quality at depths of fifteen to thirty feet with soil fertility shown by corn at 30 cents per bushel and hay priced at a ton. The climate is praised for high elevation and cooling mountain breezes, with rapid regional business growth noted in Anadarko and rising property values. Washington reports revolutionary movements affecting Panama railway termini, with guerilla fighting between Colon and Panama. Shamrock II refits reflect American design and rigging influences. Colorado irrigation advocates form committee to defend against Kansas water lawsuits, aided by state engineers and agricultural officials.
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Hobart
Washington
State Department
Columbia
Panama
Gudger
Mumros
Colon
Pueblo
Colo
Arkanana Valley
Colorado
Winlefale
Canon City
Lamar
Kansas
Arkansas
State Agricultural Department
Market News and Society Notes From Across Regions
Reports cover arid harvests in Arizona alfalfa, transit lines to Beaumont, Cuba politics, and a Pan-American camp. Incendiary fires devastate Chipley Ma. a St. Petersburg resin shipment arrives despite duties. Multiple strikes in New York’s shirt waist industry. Tolstoi’s Crimea health trip noted amid government tension. Creeks protest allotment via interior department. Denver wood workers strike over nonunion hiring checks. Jamaica fruit prices stir farmer discontent. Roosevelt speaks at Hutchinson. Chicago lawyers outnumber doctors. costs of horse transport to Cape Town cited. Chickasaws appraisal completed. Shaffer comments on Amalgamated Steel Workers strike.
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Chipley
St. Petersburg
Pensacola
Florida
Russia
Lhkely
Jowell
Massachusetts
New York
Wallouty
Kansas
Missi
Arkansas
Indian Territory
Pittsburg
Kas
Marsund
Norway
County Tolstoi
Crimea
Tolstoi
Count Tolstoi
Interior Department
Congress
Department
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