Big Slides Clog the Panama Canal Debate
Washington yearns for a firm opening date as Colonel Goethals warns on the unresolved Culebra cut slides. He cites potential new slides and delays, with $3,000,000 allotted for canal defense and $200,000 for friend defenses as planners push dredging and dismantling efforts.
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Washington
Navy
Panama Canal
George Goethals
Canal Commission
Culebra
Gatun
Colonel Goethals
Goethals
Canal
Boycott on Eggs Urged by Housewives League Leader
New York reports the nation's Housewives League head, Mrs. Julian Huth, calling a nationwide eggs boycott. No executive committee exists, telegrams were sent to 300 organizational heads seeking cooperation in the action. Also: auto bandits attacked a Cleveland jewelry store, hurling a stone through a display window and fleeing with $500 in jewelry. police seek clues.
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Housewives' League
New York
The
Housewives’ League
Julian Huth
Pleveland
Auto Banditty
Gue F. Rose
Ohio saloon licenses and auctions mark new law
Cincinnati saloons largely closed under the new license law with pockets of noncompliance tolerated by police. Across Ohio, cities reported licensed saloons closed as stock was sold off at auction or bargain prices. In Akron sixty establishments shut, while some saloonkeepers pursued quick sales amid the transition. Gompers reelected as AF of L president in Washington.
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Cincinnati
Way
Kentucky
Cleveland
Baker
Columbus
Akron
Favor Official Inquiry Into Cost of Living
Washington reports Democrats discuss an official inquiry into the high cost of living. A special commission or House Judiciary focus on living costs alongside corporate investigations. The commissioner of corporations plans a $600000 grant to study trusts and may include cost of living concerns.
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Washington
House Committee On
Congress
College Man's Views on Prohibition
Professor Sutherland Simpson of Cornell medical college argues prohibition may worsen temperance efforts. He notes parental drinking can influence offspring, denies prohibition cures hereditary influence, cites Jewish sobriety as not guaranteeing abstinence, and suggests elimination as a path to lasting sobriety rather than enforced temperance.
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Sutherland Simpson
Cornell Medical College
Simpson
William C Carr Dies After Boiler Pipe Scalding
Metuchen November 24 William C Carr a 60 year old engineer on the Pennsylvania railroad was found unconscious in his cab with a hand on the airbrake lever when an express train stopped near Millstone Junction He had been terribly scalded by a team from a broken boiler pipe and before losing consciousness the lad shot the throttle spotted the brake and ensured the team would run without guidance His condition is described as serious
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Metuchen
M. J
William C. Carr
Pennsylvania Railroad
Millstone Junction
Law amendment sought to limit willful act definition
Cleveland employers urged Governor Cox to recommend a change to the Green workmen compensation law at a special legislative session. They object to a broad interpretation by Federal Judge Day that expands the term willful act, and seek wording to prevent employers from being compelled to pay for acts a court might deem willful.
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Lolmmons
Cleveland
Cox
Day
Teachers oppose reform measures for Ohio schools
The Clark County Teachers' Association adopted resolutions opposing reform proposals for Ohio public schools. They argued the measures would turn the system into a large political machine manipulated by the state, and they planned to present their position to the general assembly at the next session.
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Springfield
Clark County Teachers’ Association
Ohio
Lost life in flames at Maximo near Alliance
Frank Manguary died in a house fire after entering his burning home to fetch clothes for his wife and two children who had jumped from a second story window. The fire started when he lit the kitchen stove after returning from coon hunting and collapsed as the flames grew. Major General Leonard Wood was thrown from his horse at Fort Myer but suffered no serious injuries while riding with his daughter Louisa.
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Wood
Washington
Louisaa Worl
Fort Myer
Leonard Wood
Army
Boy Run Down by Auto in Lancaster Fatal Crash
Sylvester Abel ten was run over by a car driven by Paul Thimmis fourteen and died two hours later at a firehouse where he was taken after the accident. In Euston Pennsylvania Mrs O G Schulte of Morristown New Jersey was instantly killed when her husband’s auto collided with a New York car. Schultz’s car overturned trapping her and crushing her skull.
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Lancaster
Sylvester Abel
Paul Thimmis
Euston
0. G. Schulte
Morristown
N. J
G. C. Johnston
New York
Schultz
Automobile Crash Fatally Injures Louis Moore in Bellefontaine
Bellefontaine Ohio November 24 Louis Moore sustained fatal injuries when the car he rode in skidded and overturned on a country road. The three occupants were thrown about fifty feet, Moore the only one seriously hurt.
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State Liquor Licensing Board
Anti-Saloon League
Gompers
Wash
American Federation of Labor
Philadelphia
Price of Tx
Samuel Gompers
Carranza
Huerta
King George
Eton
Roger Bros
Rogers Bros
Reids
China
Guernsey
Ben Hur
Barbara Worth
Mary Widthorne
Coniston
Churchill Wild
Arnold Store
Mt. Vernon
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