Costly Cabin Creek strike reshapes West Virginia coal history
Charleston reports the Cabin Creek strike cost the industry millions. Officials tally operators’ losses at 2 million, miners’ wages 1.5 million, state taxpayers 500 thousand, and United Mine Workers 602 thousand, raising WV union membership from 1,136 to 3,074. Thirteen lives were lost and production largely remained at half to two thirds capacity.
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United Mine Workers of America
Cabin Creek
West Virginia
United Mine Workers Journal
Kanawha
Kanawha County
United Mine Workers
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Powell Praises New Medical Law In Georgia
Dr. John Powell, Atlanta eye ear nose and throat specialist, hails Georgia medical practice law as superior to any state or British system. He commends the legislature for enacting the bill and urges strict enforcement to protect the public and future generations.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Union
British Isles
John Powell
Powell
Kansas City Votes on Commission Government Change
Kansas City to vote next April on adopting a commission form of government. An independent ticket will back abolishing one city council chamber, shrinking the other to five or six members, and making each councilman head of a department. The plan, born with the City Club, is favored by progressives with GOP and Democratic support.
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Brown
Andepublican
Elges
Nrmget
Charities Lose Large Fortune in Will Case
New York August 23 Four hundred thousand dollars is lost to charity as Justice Guy voids bequests in the Ely versus Magic case over Smith Ely's will. He rules that at the time the will was executed charitable legacies could not be held by corporations. laws allowing such gifts took effect July 29 1911, after Ely's death.
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Children’s Aid Society
City of
New York
Society For
One City Missions
Trace Society
Guy
Ely
Suits Draw Straws For Girl in San Francisco
Miss Vera Burson, a Palace Hotel telephone operator, settled a double engagement by drawing straws between suitors Edward A. Tolley and Frederick Hadley. Tolley won the long straw and will wed at her parents’ Alameda home, then sail to Los Angeles at 4 PM aboard the Yale for their honeymoon.
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International News Service
San Francisco
Vera Burson
Palace Hotel
Edward A. Tolley
Frederick Hadley
Alameda
Los Angeles
Yale
Suffragette Denied Seat in New York Trolley Car
In New York on August 23 a Brooklyn merchant refused a suffragette’s demand for his seat on an open trolley car. After a bargaining exchange the woman yielded for the ride, declaring herself no longer a suffragette for the length of the trip. She did not disclose her name.
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New York
Brooklyn
Broadway
Lexington Avenue
New School of Thought
Eighth Street
Thirty-fourth Street
Forty-second Street
Newspapers Save Trestle as Girls Fight Fire
Verne May Hilda Ford and Mary Green used wet newspapers to smother a trestle fire near Oregon City on the interurban line to Portland. Their improvised effort prevented a crash as an electric train carrying passengers crossed, with the fire almost burning through the under-rafters.
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Oregon City
Ore
Vortland
Verne May
Hilda Ford
Mary Green
Lochiel of Cameron Arrives in New York Aboard Cameronia
Lochiel of Cameron and Lady Hermoine Cameron land in New York aboard the Cameronia. The Cameron chief, 25th in line to lead the clan, travels with no kilts or regalia and plans to tour the United States and Canada with his wife. They will visit Montreal with Mrs Jones Guest before deciding how long to stay.
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International News Service
New York
Lochiel of Cameron
Hermoine Cameron of Lochiel
Cameronia
Lochiel
Scotland
Pope
America
Rockeys
Twenty-fourth Street
Lady Cameron
Montreal
Jones
United States
Lachiel of Cameron
Cameron Highlanders
Lochiele
Cameron
England
Duke of Montrose
John C. Cameron
Texas
Mississippi Farmers Roundup At Agricultural College
The annual Mississippi Farmers Roundup opens Aug 25 and runs through Aug 30 at Agricultural College. The event features Farmers Institute, Boys and Girls clubs, prize awards, lectures, moving pictures, and contests on shucking, rope tying, crop naming, and livestock. Attendance is expected to reach 1600 to 2000 with railroads offering reduced fares and on-campus housing and meals arranged.
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Agricultural College
Miss
Farmers’ Institute
Corn Club
Dc. A. Cobb
Susie V. Powell
Washington
Columbia
Mississippi
Sre
College
Leaks detected with new pulsegraph device in NYC
New York uses a pulsegraph by N W Akimoff to locate water mains leaks. A recent leak on Eighty third Street east of Third Avenue released 125000 gallons daily. Akimoff trained city engineers and notes earlier discoveries of six leaks totaling about 450000 gallons per day.
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International News Service
New York
Department of Water Supply
City of
N. W. Akimoff
Philadelphia
Eighty-third Street
Third Avenue
Akimoff
Suffragettes Need Not Apply in Bold Advertisement
Frederick native Fauntleroy Unger, 22, declares no suffragettes need apply while seeking a wife via the classifieds. He wants a competent housekeeper about his age, fond of home, willing to make him happy, noting past rejections. An agent smiles at a New York restaurant faltering in business.
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Mr. Unger
New York
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Lertz, Gaillard, Jhonston Coal CO
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Pocket Book
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