Homestead Dispute Strike Statement From Iron Workers
The Homestead iron and steel workers publish a detailed rebuttal to H C Frick's statements. They defend workers rights to challenge employer wages and demand conference on the 1889 scale affecting about 3800 employees and note union organization efforts and perceived abuses by the Carnegie company. The letter urges impartial investigation and public judgment. The Kansas Democrats face a narrow path, with Peoples party fusion seen as a route to coalition against Republican policies and a potential Democratic President, urging voters to back People's electors where possible.
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Homestead
Homestead Iron and Steel Workers
Carnegie Company
H.C. Frick
Amalgamated Association
Hundred of Mills
Bessemer
Iron and Steel
Braddock
Duquesne Steel Works
Frick
Kansas
People’s Party
Peoples Party
Party
People’s
Democratic College of Electors
Nebraska
Dakotas
Minnesota
Tin Plate Bill Passed By Big Vote In Congress
The Tin Plate Bill passed last Friday by 267 to 56, the largest vote of the day. The silver lead ore bill reducing duty to 14 cents per pound on lead content and admitting free lead in silver ore passed 165 to 62. Other measures included limits on imports of wearing apparel to 106 dollars per resident, railway land forfeiture extensions, local government in Utah, and safety rules requiring automatic couplers and continuous brakes for common carriers.
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United States
Territory
Utah
Death of Mrs. Johnson in Bear Lake area
Mrs. John Johnson of Bear Lake Warren county was found dead beside a road near her home on Tuesday night. Aged ninety five, widow of a War of 1812 veteran, she had lived with her son William Johnson near Bear Lake for ten years. Authorities believe she rose at night, visited Betsey Perkins nearby, and fell from a footbridge into a sluice. she was dead when found.
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John Johnson
Bear Lake
Warren County
Union
William Johnson
Bear Like
Betsey Perkins
Blizzara
Prize series to spur American music composition
The Ladies' Home Journal announces liberal prizes for original musical works by U S and Canadian composers. Entries include a waltz, piano piece, ballad, popular song, anthem, and four hymn tunes. Open until Nov 1. Strauss, Gounod, and Sullivan contribute forthcoming works.
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The
Ladies’ Home Journal
United States
Canada
Strauss
Charles Gounod
Arthur Sullivan
Clothes Cleaned By Mrs Casemere On Second Street
Mrs. Louisa C Casemere opens a clothes cleaning establishment at 305 Second Street upstairs offering prompt service. A new French dry cleaning process handles evening suits and all kinds of clothes with quick turnaround. Ladies wraps remodeled and plush work a specialty.
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Louisa C. Casemere
Second Street
A Husband's Mistake Prompts Restorative Mervine Endorsement
Advert explains that Dr Mike' Restorative Mervine prevents headaches dizziness neuralgia and nervous disorders in wives and children. Druggists nationwide report universal satisfaction and huge sales. Sample bottles and a free book on nervous diseases offered at Morris & Mullen's drug store.
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Mike
Woodworth & Co
Fort Wayne
Ind
Snow & Co
Syracuse
N. Y
J. A. Wolf
Hillsdale
Mich
Morris & Mullen
Ice Ice Icet Extra Fine Sold Citywide By Steercien & Co
Advertises ice delivery to all city areas with a phone number 884 and mentions Steercien & Co on 36th Grover Leaf Saksus street. Also lists Mackerel and Brook Trout, and Tyumato sauce at Stecerien & Co with prices noted as ver sonable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ginder
Stecerien & Co
Temperance Teachings and Women Leaders at State Teachers Meet
At the thirty-eighth annual Pennsylvania State Teachers Convention in Pittsburgh, Miss Myers discussed mixed success of temperance instruction, urging improved grading and sustained effort. The event highlighted support from Mrs. Hunt, Mrs. Lovell, and others, with a statewide school exhibit for the World’s Fair and a push to feature scientific temperance in the state presentation. The report also notes rising female political activity with leaders addressing various parties and conventions across the year.
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Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Mary Hunt
Lovell
Joseph Weeks
Eyles M. Watson
Ahee G Myers
Beaver
Mass Myers
Miss Myers
Mary E Hunt
Miss Lioyd
Hunt
Pittsburgh Commercial
Credulous Claims for Dr Pierce’s Prescription
An advertisement touts Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a lasting cure for long illnesses. It argues results are not instant and promises a one dollar refund if there is no benefit, asserting the makers’ confidence with a money back guarantee. The note ends by mentioning a local grocery line at Warren Srearainp & Co.
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Dr. Pierce
Politics and Homestead labor shift in tariff clash
The Free Press reports at Homestead and Pittsburgh that idle ironworkers, all Republicans since age 21, refuse to return to the old wage scale even if the strike ends. They fear wage cuts in a presidential year and cite Henry George’s works as influencing many. They say tariffs protect labor and that high tariffs require high wages, a slogan likely to aid Democrats in Ohio and certain towns.
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Carnegie
Free Press
Homestead
Cne
Ama'ramated Association
Henry
George
Henry George
Congressional Record
Amalgamated Association For
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Youngstown
Cleveland
Rover
Pittsburg
Maj. McKinley
Congress
J M Place new Globe publisher notes in Ledger
The Globe announces J M Place as publisher of The Globe at Worth 51 New York city. His eight page illustrated weekly has 11 297 circulation and is praised by Corry and Ledger. Also ad seeks fifty day boarders and one hundred transients at Adelphia Kitchen Water street corner suspension bridge offering 25 cent dinners.
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J. M. Place
Ledger
Adelphia Kitchen
Water Street
Suspension Bridge
Chas T Thurston Sign and Decorative Painter
Charley T Thurston advertises campaign banners and transparencies ready on short notice at 909 Water Street near Market with decorative painting services. Also notes Not-a-Bone Salt Cod by Sixertrep & Co.
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Water Street
Market
Sixertrep & Co
Women Lodging Plan at World Fair Proposes Stockled Dormitories
The board of lady managers for the Columbian exposition will oversee women interests. Matilda B Corse heads a project to erect dormitories near the fair grounds for industrial women. A Chicago stock company offers shares valued at 10 dollars with 40 cent daily occupancy and pro rata profits if surplus remains. Shares sold via the Times building Pittsburgh office. applicants must state month and ownership details.
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Helen M. Barker
Rand McNally
Chicago
J. Ellen Foster
National Republican Committee
Lease
Diggs
People’s Party
Helen Gougar
New York
Mery Frost Ormsby
Frances Cleveland Club
5. B. Morrison
Supt. Press
Matilda B Corse
Lady Ayinigers
Soy Doritory
Elbridge G. Keith
Treas
Sec’y
Helen M. Baker
Office
The
State Committee On Woman's Work
Times Building
Pittsburg
Appalling Aucid Glaciers Trigger Deadly Avalanche in Savoy
A glacier detachment from the Bionnessa range swept Lafayet village and St. Gervais Les Bains in Savoy. The disaster killed many as rock and ice destroyed homes and flooded the Arve river. Over 180 deaths reported with 150 bodies recovered and 30 found in ruins.
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St. Gervais Les Bains
Savoy
Bionnessa
Mt. Blanc
Lafayet
Arve
Excursion Rates for Jamestown Lakewood Chautauqua Lake
Excursion tickets go on sale via DA V and PR B for Jamestown and Lakewood with Falconer routes and electric trains. Day passes priced 75 to 85 cents for Wednesdays and Sundays, multiple routes including Lakewood and Chautauqua Lake options with return by Oct 15 at $1.50. Special weekend and weekday itineraries to Jamestown, Bost from there, and via N Y L BE W KR B routes priced about $1.00. Gare Gro H. Damens signs as G P A. C HH Kerowam Supt.
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Da.v.& PR. B
Jamestown
Lakewood
Chautauqua Lake
Falconer
Falconer Junction
L. E
N.Y. L. BE
W. KR. B
Gro
H. Damens
Kerowam
Prominent Oil Man Shoots Self in Barnsdall Office
Fred W. Moore of Eureka West Virginia, a wealthy oil operator and Barnsdall partner, killed himself in the Barnsdall office in Braprorp Pennsylvania yesterday afternoon. He was 42, valued at about 30000 dollars, and had assigned his property to his wife last week. Authorities say mental unsteadiness likely caused the act.
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Braprorp
Fred W. Moore
Eureka
W. Va
T. N. Barnsdall
Cash Paid for Penns Gas Stock at Reasonable Figure
Cash paid for ten thousand dollars or less worth of Penns Gas Stock at a reasonable figure. Address Emlenton Ledger Office.
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Penn
Emlenton” Ledger
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Carnegie Executive
CU. A. Petterson
Warren Savings Bank
Mead Union
Kinzua Viaduct
Siegfried & Co
Erie
Dem
J. Sibley
Sibley
Crawford County
Democrats
Farmer's Alliance
Flee
Dr. Flood
Franks
Venango County
Meadville
Miller
Samuel J. Rendall
Crawford
Renuing
Grover Leaf
Saksus St
Warren, Srearainp & Co
the Globe
Chas. T. Thurston
Sucides
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