Irish Railway Strikes Loom as Sinn Fein Calls Actions
Chronicle reports Irish railway strikers vow to seize trains and uncouple receivers, aiming to disrupt movement of munitions. Dublin protests burnings of documents at courts and police offices as Sinn Fein control spreads, Horace Plunkett urges dominion settlement. An experiment improves telephone circuit efficiency through crystal rochetie transduction.
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Bantry
Werg
Court House
Dublin
Chronicle
England
Horace Plunkett
Times
Sinn Fein
Ireland
Ade
Meteorograph Defies Wreckage in Georgia Kite Flight
A self recording weather instrument built for army and mail service aviation survived a dramatic haul aloft in a kite. Designed by C F Marvin of the U S Weather Bureau, the seven by three foot aluminum frame instrument rode a high tension steel wire reel and a piano wire tether, lifting into upper air and recording wind, temperature, humidity and pressure despite a mule and boy entanglement in a Georgia cotton field.
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Army
Mail Service
Slater
C. F. Marvin
United States Weather Bureau
Poor Housing Lowers Morals Says Official
Cincinnati official Miss Alice Richard warns lack of adequate housing lowers living and moral standards for thousands under Associated Charities. She calls for immediate doubling of housing capacity as most families of five live in two rooms or less and face rising rents.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
America
Associated Charities
Alice Richard
Miss Richard
Richard
Central States
United States
Ring Lost In Hotel Restroom Shocked Emporia Woman
Mrs. C. E. Sprague of Emporia Kan. dropped a $2500 diamond ring in the Hotel Meuhlbach washroom in Kansas City Mo. She later returned to search but the ring was gone.
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Kansas‘city
C. E. Sprague
Emporia
Kan
Meuhlbach
Atlanta clerks defy union rule in rail strike vote
Atlanta rail yard clerks voted last night to remain out despite telegrams from national headquarters declaring the strike illegal. The action comes as the dispute with railroad management continues to affect service in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Atlanta
Wage problems discussed at railway labor board meeting
38 Chicago June report notes 154 general chairmen from the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees discussed wage issues before the railway labor board. The union claims a membership of 360,000.
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Chicago
Railway Labor Board
Brotherhood
Japan ends relations over Siberian buffer state plan
Honolulu dispatch states Japan broke off relations with the Russian Bolsheviki over plans to form a buffer state in Siberia. The Tokyo cablegram to Nippon charges the move would destabilize the region and worsen Allied war aims.
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Honolould
Associated Press
Japan
Bolsheviki
Siberia
Tokio
Nippun
Cut This Out It Is Worth Money
Readers are urged to cut out the ad and mail it to Foley Co for a trial package. The offer promises Foley’s Honey and Tar for coughs and croup, Foley Kidney Pills for various ailments, and Foley Cathartic Tablets for constipation. The appeal stresses enclosing name and address for sending the free sample.
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Foley & Co
Shefield
Ave
Chicago
Foley
Peru now up with Asiatic problem
Buenos Aires reports Peru faces an Asiatic problem similar to the United States and Canada. Advices from Lima say workers protest against Asiatic and Japanese domination of small industries and a protest meeting was prevented by the police. Large increases in Japanese immigration to Peru are noted.
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J.C .Barnes
Kentucky Street
Reine
Ch & Wood
Buenos Aires
Peru
United States
Canada
Lima
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Bellans
Gayfer
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Mhetevs
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