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Newspaper
The Labor Argus
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1907
Page
3
The Labor Argus invites local unions to submit news and notices of labor interest within the state. Secretaries should mail items and ensure copy for future issues arrives in the office by Tuesday each week, written on one side of the paper.
Readers urged to renew The Labor Argus subscription at nine dollars while notices announce Bartenders Assembly meetings with new members and forthcoming reports. Union groups plan campaigns to organize unskilled crafts and welcome bathers into Liberal efforts. The Charleston Typographical Union shifts meeting time and reports a busy session with new members.
During the Civil War Captain Bullwinkle seeks an independent command and enforces a bizarre discipline on Lieutenant Walter Moore by dressing him in women’s clothes after a failed skirmish with Confederate sympathizers. A recruited boy, wearing the companion girl’s garb, joins Moore in ridicule until a siege at the clockhouse ends with Moore’s decisive leadership and Bullwinkle’s ironic order to switch uniforms.
A fragment urging subscription renewal for The Labor Argus and advertising its role as a fair report for trade unions. It references sunbeams, perseverance, theatre commentary, and the value of subscribing to support labor news. Contains era tone and promotional language with multiple literary flourishes.
Capitol City Trades Assembly approved a resolution urging all city building trade unions to work only with fellow union men across crafts and to pursue harmony over factionalism. The move aims to protect union work and renew subscription prompts for The Labor Argus and The Pinkerton Labor Spy.
The report cites 9,000,000 working women in the nation with about 5,000 in craft unions capable of organizing. It notes tensions between police and Tours, Prince, plus labor efforts by the Society of Equity and coalition actions in Detroit and Chicago.
The article suggests 2 karat gold as the best filling for teeth for service and appearance. It notes cost depends on how much gold can be afforded and emphasizes a painless method as a specialty.
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