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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1925
Page
5
Secretary of Labor Davis reports the worker today enjoys the highest wages in history, shorter hours, and rising living standards. He notes 7.4 percent employment growth year over year, 6.6 percent wage gains, growing home construction, and two and a half billion dollars in workers' savings over four years.
Ezra Meeker 95, pioneer of the Oregon Trail, arrives in Washington to urge Congress to authorize a fifty cent coin marking the 76th anniversary of the pioneer trek along the Oregon Trail.
London on December 1 A P reports the Locarno treaty was signed by Britain France Germany Belgium and Italy to uphold the Versailles frontier lines even to war. Four arbitration pacts followed with Poland and Czecho Slovakia. Polish premier Skrzynski and Czecho Slovakia prime minister Benes signed. The ceremony occurred in the foreign office Victorian room.
The ceremony in London marked the Locarno pacts as a hopeful step toward arbitration and cooperation among nations. Briand Stresemann and Luther praised the agreements, while Chamberlain called the treaties a foundation for lasting peace and a relaxation of postwar tension.
The Athens police issued a regulation banning Greek girls over 12 and Greek women from wearing skirts more than 12 inches off the ground. Violators will be prosecuted. The measure takes effect December 15.
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