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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1902
Page
7
Huron train schedule lists arrivals from east west north and south with daily and alternate services. It notes passenger and freight trains including 501 Minnesota Dakota and 563 Dakota and mentions connections at Sioux Valley Junction and Redfield with agent L. H. Towns.
Washington reports President Coolidge or Harding era? The text notes no extra session will be called at this stage to address the coal strike. The president says Pennsylvania should handle the matter, with federal aid only if the state cannot control the situation, while military action remains unlikely.
Washington reports indicate disagreement within the cabinet over issuing a public statement on Friday’s coal strike conference. President Mitchell and the miners’ committee left Washington for Wilkes-Barre after the talks, with Mitchell hinting at future directives to sustain the stoppage through winter amid ongoing fund-raising and public sentiment support.
Bishop Fallows, sent by the miners relief committee, reported on anthracite conditions. He cited average miner earnings of 1.89 a day, 200 work days yearly, and expenses for rent powder doctor oil and coal. He praised the orderliness of the strikers and urged renewed public support. report to be printed.
The excerpts from statements to President Roosevelt reveal each side’s position in the coal strike dispute as of October 6 in Washington. The interpretable notes outline the competing demands and grounds of the labor and management camps.
Washington reports a final effort by the president and advisers to end the coal strike. It proposes that President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers may win the strikers back to work to avert a fuel famine and urges swift full investigations by Congress and Pennsylvania's Legislature into the anthracite coal crisis to inform future legislation or relief actions.
Coal dealers in New York report prices at 37.50 a ton after Roosevelt mediated talks failed. In tenement districts coal sells at 30 cents a pail, and Salvation Army operations to supply the poor at three cents a pail face a supply shortfall for winter.
President Baer of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway company arrives in Philadelphia after a Washington visit and, in response to an inquiry, says he has nothing further to publish beyond his prior statement.
Saloonkeepers in St Paul vote 180 to 5 against free lunches. A committee will petition the city council for an ordinance banning free lunches to save an estimated half a million dollars annually for saloonkeepers.
A promotional note touts Allen's Foot-Ease powder as a cure for painful feet, corns, bunions, sweating, and tired feet. It promises instant relief and easier shoe fit, sells through druggists and shoe stores, and offers mail orders for 25 cents to LeRoy New York.
Edward E. McNeel received a one year sentence in the inebriate ward at Mount Pleasant state insane asylum under Iowa’s new inebriate law. It marks the first conviction in this region and stirs fear among drinkers as temperance forces vow relentless action.
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