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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1916
Page
4
The piece extends season's wishes to subscribers and readers while reflecting on the year's events. It notes pride in the paper's development under control, hopes for an improving future, and mentions peace prospects, wartime ending, and Wyoming's growing industries including mining stock raising and farming.
Merchants hope to spread this year’s Christmas rush by encouraging early shopping to ease clerks workload on Christmas morning in Kemmerer. The piece urges shoppers to act now and support orderly holiday spending.
A special stockholder letter from KE P Ripley president of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe outlines opposition to the eight hour law as unconstitutional. He reviews the Admunson bill and notes overtime pay and ten hour work patterns for trainmen. The document also surveys women in executive education positions in the United States and Maine shipbuilding revival.
The article reports a new wage scale for the St Louis Journeymen Barbers Union with a weekly minimum of 6 and 1/4 dollars and overtime terms, plus a 12 hour workday with meals. It lists overseas Japanese laborer totals and regional placements, wartime labor conferences in Canada, and various union activities in Britain, the United States, and Ireland, including wage increases and worker protections. It also notes a Philadelphia plumbers union wage rise, San Francisco defense fund plans, Yorkshire dye workers gains, and Dublin police pay debates. A stray item mentions a Scrub girl invention and a home remedy for croup.
Albert Bigelow Paine recalls Mark Twain and General Grant in Hartford during the 1880 campaign. Twain delivered a memorable welcome address and a later House speech praising Grant, sparking warm crowd reaction and forging a strong bond between the humorist and the general.
A Newark News item depicts a church scene where two trustees pass the collection in the middle aisle then proceed to the front and side aisles. A girl whispers to her father that they should employ four waiters, one for each aisle.
A reflection on steadfast purpose and courage that resists fear, urging individuals to stand firm in emergencies, separate from the crowd, and never accept defeat.
A Boston Transcript note reflects on perception and charm noting distance enhances admiration and suggesting poetry amid playful lines about appreciating a girl when she is well of.
County commissioners meet on the first Tuesday of each month at the Court House in Kemmerer and work until finished. All county bills must be filed before the end of each month’s Gret.
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