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Newspaper
The Labor Argus
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1907
Page
3
A notice urging local unions in the state to mail news and notices to The Labor Argus. It requests all copy for succeeding issues be in the office by Tuesday each week and written on one side of the paper.
A local notice columns feature a playful verse about a spring maiden and a civic plea to attend union meetings. Capitol City Trades Assembly reports enthusiastic Painter section activity and prompts readers to subscribe to the Argus for 1907 union support. The piece urges use of the Union Label on collars and notes aggressive Pressmen recruitment among pressfeeders.
William Morgan of Ohio national executive board left Indianapolis for annual board meeting after a month in the district. Patrick Gatens reports healthy local membership growth. Frank L. Ricey travels to Hot Springs for health concerns. Bro Rico ill with stomach trouble at Cedar Grove, hopes Hot Springs treatment aids recovery. Local unions urged to remit per capita tax to the Secretary of State Federation of Labor. Thos Cairns busy reconciling differences in Kanawha field. John Nugent and Sen. Morris discuss outcomes at Winsted.
Industrial Herald condemns Alabama and Tennessee policies leasing convicts to mining and lumber firms. It argues convict labor undercuts free workers, hinders wages, and marks a barbaric relic that depresses southern industry. calls for ending the practice and boosting industrious labor.
Local 450 IBEW announces a social session and smoker at Assembly Hall tomorrow evening from 8 to 12. President Herrmans will speak along with several others.
The Rev John Balcom Shaw of Second Presbyterian denounced department stores for endangering boarding house young women from Dakota and Oklahoma. He warned of temptations faced by low wage workers in Chicago and cited similar conditions in West Virginia, urging action to protect daughters and sisters.
The Evening Leader of Pittsburgh PA withdraws from the Pittsburg Newspaper Publishers Association and joins the Pittsburg Typographical Union. The paper says it opposed a self serving trust and stresses it remains the only Pittsburgh evening newspaper with the union label.
The coal heavers and trimmers of Boston and vicinity formed Coal Handlers' Assembly 1649, Knights of Labor. Over 300 men signed the charter roll, signaling a new union in the local labor landscape.
A exhortation that advertising sustains commerce even in slow times. It urges business owners to study successful advertisers, keep money moving, and invest effort and enterprise. A good copy beats weak original efforts and aligns with present conditions to drive success.
The Labor Argus offers a yearly subscription at 31.00 and a six month option at 0.50. The notice conveys pricing details without additional context or dates.
The Kanawha County Circuit Court orders nonresident defendant Clawney Hedrick to appear within one month of first publication to protect his interest in a suit for divorce from the bonds of matrimony. The action seeks a decree dissolving the marriage.
Notice to Clowney Hedrick that on the 36th day of Marel 1907 deposition will be taken at 9 o clock in the morning at the law office of Tson in Charleston Kanawha County West Virginia. Depositions to be read in evidence in a chancery case pending in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County with E as plaintiff and Hedrick as defendant. If not commenced or completed the deposition will be continued daily at the same place and time until completed. R. Robertson, Sol.
A fragment discusses the idea that less knowledge can spare embarrassment, citing Rey aries Stelzle and Mark Twain. It favors a single fact over many theories and argues one solid fact helps growth more than a broad but shallow base. The speaker backs a text outlining the virtue of not knowing too much about religion science or economics.
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