Chicago man recalls Lincoln and Civil War monitors on U S naval tour
John Rasmussen, 75, a Civil War veteran and Chicago bootmaker, visits the captured German submarine UC-97 and compares its steering gear with the monitors he served aboard during Fort Sumter to Fisher siege days. He recalls seeing President Lincoln in Washington before the assassination.
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United States
Forts
Sumter
Moultrie
Fisher
Municipal Pier
Chicago
John Rasmussen
E. A. Lockwood
United States Navy
John
God
Theer
Lockwood
Rasmussen
Lincoln
Washington Harbor
President Lincoln
Abe
Abraham Lincoln
Ford
Mystery Letters Plague Former President Taft
An unnamed city resident has sent 1,825 letters to former President Taft over the past five years. The letters bear illegible handwriting resembling a fly escaping an ink bath. Taft asks the police to investigate and seeks relief from the strange correspondent.
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Long Jeach
Cal
Taft
Exiled wife of Admiral Kolchak speaks from Paris
Mme Kolchak, widow of the Siberia war leader, lives in fear for her ten year old son as Bolsheviks pursue them. She notes only one message from her husband since July 11 and expresses unwavering faith in his cause and eventual victory. She arrived in Paris from Sebastopol after years of pursuit and recalls past separations during the Musso Japanese war.
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Russia
Mme. Kolchak
Siberia
Kolchak
Paris
Aris
Sebastopol
Port Arthur
Mime
Catech
German Brides Spark Dining Room Dispute in Paris
At Hotel Petrograd the largest YWCA hostess house in Paris, twenty two German brides married to American soldiers refused service, causing a near riot. They left the dining room after overheard plans and agreed to return only if no more German brides were brought to the house.
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Hotel Petrograd
Young
Women’s Christian Association
Paris
Association
War Work Council
Brest
United States
Dog Carried Their Jewels How Moscow Banker and His Wife Saved $10,000
Nikola I. Shinetzoff, a former Moscow banker, arrived in New York with his wife and family, aided by their Pomeranian. Blackmailers demanded payment after months of financial pressure. jewels valued at 10,000 dollars were hidden in the dog's collar to keep them safe. His wife used other jewels to bribe guards and the wagon driver, enabling a move into Finland.
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Moscow
Nikola I. Shinetzoff
New York
Pom
Nitro town for sale from War Department in 1919
The War Department offers Nitro West Virginia a complete industrial community for sale. It includes 737 manufacturing buildings housing for 20 000 people utilities and civic improvements with key plants and magazines along the Kanawha river. Bids due September 30 1919 at Philadelphia.
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War Department
Nitro
W. Va
Pere Sons
United States
Ordnance District Salvage Board
Market Street
Philadelphia
Kanawha River
Demands of Mine Workers for Closed Shop and Shorter Day
William Green of the United Mine Workers told the tri district convention in Wilkes Barre that the miners will seek a closed shop with a six hour work day and about sixty percent wage gains next April. He urged universal union membership to secure the plan and argued workers can coal as efficiently in six hours as in eight.
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United Mine Workers
Wilkesharre
William Green
Mr. Green
San Francisco Shoe Store Firm in Laundry Dispute Suit
Max Steinberg claims the New Princess French Laundry refused laundry delivery to bar him from church after a prior dispute over a hurdle Steinberg says was lost. The case highlights conflicts over service interruptions linked to religious attendance.
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Max Steinberg
San Francisco
New Princess French Laundry Company
Steinberg
Labor's aim to shorten hours and expand control
Edward F. Mc Grady, Boston Labor College founder, argues for shorter work weeks to equip workers for democratic control of industry and to employ all willing labor. He cites rising population, need for training in technics and economics, and that union leaders see broader social and economic aims beyond a wage.
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Edward F. McGrady
Boston Labor College
Boston Central Labor Union
McGrady
Christian Science Monitor
Labor College
British ministers avert rail strike with wage agreement
Sir Auckland Geddes and locomotive engineers and firemen reach a settlement ending the threat of a strike. The government offers 33 3/4 dollars daily to locomotive engineers and motormen on electric lines and 2 3/4 dollars to firemen as a replacement for the previous wage and war bonus system. Representatives of the workers urge acceptance of the government scale.
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Sir Auckland Geddes
British Labor Chief Set to Visit America in October
Arthur Henderson, secretary of the British Labour Party and former cabinet minister, accepted an invitation from American labor to visit the United States in October. He will lecture in principal industrial centers during the trip.
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Arthur Henderson
British Labor Party
America
Henderson
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