Does Adamson Law Include All Railroad Men
Discussion urges that the Adamson eight hour act may extend beyond union members to cover all railroad workers involved in train operation. Officials and a railroad lawyer debate whether the scope includes dispatchers, towermen, telegraphers, yardmen, switchmen, engineers, firemen and conductors, potentially broadening obligations and costs for railroads.
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Congress
Wilson
Dispatched Up
Four Brotherhoods
Hawley Denies Abuse Claims Against Wife
Yonkers New York Sept 18 Thomas Hawley responded to his wife’s allegations that he was mean and abusive by recounting that she often used dollar bills to light the gas, arguing such incidents show her conduct rather than his.
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Yonkers
N. Y
Thomas Hawley
Mrs Charles A Mack Sues for Divorce in Nine Week Hospital Stay
New York on September 18 Mrs Charles A Mack sues for divorce charging her husband did not visit her once during her nine weeks in a hospital.
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New York
Charles A. Mack
Penguin described Shackleton menus near pole
An account from Punta Arenas publishes in the Daily Chronicle detailing life aboard Shackleton's South Polar expedition. It describes penguin meals, blubber, seaweed, limpets, and improvised culture as the stranded crew awaited rescue and later asked, What was the war over.
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London
Sptember
Elephant Island
Anarctic
Ernest Shackeltons
Chile
Punta Arenas
Daily Chronicle Today
Browning Bacon
Carlyle
Sevral
New Cases Decline With Sixteen Infantile Paralysis Reports
Harrisburg reports sixteen new polio cases to the state health department the smallest in some time. Philadelphia accounts for eight cases while Scott town ship Wayne County Norristown Pitcairn Wawa Reversford Rostraver township Westmoreland County and Parks township Armstrong County each report one case. Since July the state tally reaches 1,927 cases with 329 deaths and Philadelphia contributing 743 cases.
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Pennsylvania Department of Health
Harrisburg
State Department of Health
Philadelphia
Scott Township
Wayne County
Norristown
Pitcairn
Wawa
Reversford
Rostraver Township
Westmoreland County
Parks Township
Armstrong County
Seth Low Dead Publicist and Educator at 66
Seth Low died Sunday at his Bedford Hills model farm in New York after months of declining health. The former Brooklyn mayor twice and Greater New York mayor, ex-president of Columbia University who gave $1,000,000 to the university, he shaped its 11-year era. As National Civic Federation leader and labor capital arbiter, his openness and geniality aided dispute resolution. He was also a delegate to The Hague peace conference.
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New York
Seth Low
Bedford Hills
N. Y
Brooklyn
Greater New York
Columbia University
Low
National Civic Federation
The
Hague
Tanks Aid British Advance Near Bapaume
Armored motor cars described as tanks crossed trench and shell hole networks during a Friday British sweep toward Bapaume. British crews used them to push toward German lines, with one tank reportedly routing 100 Germans in a single action. An aerial report noted tanks advancing through Flers as British infantrymen urged them forward.
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London
Bapaume
Flers
Rioting flares as New York transit strike widens
In Manhattan rioters attack car barns and elevated trains as police clash with strikers. Aiming to avert a Friday sympathy walkout, a citizens committee plans talks with Mayor Mitchel and Oscar Straus while Interborough officials resist talks with the strikers.
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New York
Manhattan
Forty-second Street
Broadway
Citizens’ Committee
Mitchel
Oscar §. Straus
Public Service Commission
Straus
Theodore P. Shantz
Interborough Rapid Transit Co
New York Railways Co
Shontz
Interborough
Central Conference Committee
Ernest Bohm
Central Federated Union
School closings over infantile paralysis cause school code dispute
Dr Nathan C Schaeffer explains sections of the state school code on paying teachers when epidemics force closures. He outlines five interpretations guiding boards and teachers to amicably adjust differences as refunds from the state are unlikely.
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Schaffer
Nathan C. Schaeffer
Public Instruction
Plot to Swindle 17 Banks Exposed in Chicago
Chicago details an elaborate plot to defraud seventeen U S banks of 300000 to 500000 dollars. A detective heads to Gothenburg Sweden with extradition papers for Carl von Bardi, the man believed to pose as a French count and tied to forged shocks at a varnish firm. Von Bardi has been jailed in Gothenburg since last May.
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Chicago
United States
Gothenburg
Sweden
Carl von Bardi
von Bardi
Prayers of Doctor in Lawsuit Demand Wife’s Separation
New York September 17. Dr Marion S Alder a physician and property holder on the East Side seeks separation from his wife Nettie Adler in the Supreme Court. She charges his prayers asked God to rid him of her and to punish alleged lover and enemies and to sell and rent their Coney Island house. Her complaint says the prayers jarred her.
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New York
Marion S. Alder
East Side
Nettie Adler
Supreme Court
Lakewood
N. J
Coney Island
Ex Presidents to Take Stump for G O P Candidate
Roosevelt and campaign aides plan a limited stump for Hughes with stops including Battle Creek Chicago and Denver California may follow. Taft and Root to join in October with stops in Ohio and New York State. Taft urges a consistent policy to end the war under Republican leadership.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Republican National Campaign
Roosevelt
C. E. Hughes
Battle Creek
Chicago
Denver
California
Robert Bacon
United States
Cornelius N. Bliss
National Committee
Charles J. Bonaparte
J. Gardner
Maine
Lawrence Abbott
Frances Keller
George W. Perkins
William Howard Taft
Hughes
Republican
Taft
Ohio
Elihu Root
Roo
New York State
Hughes National College League
Wilson
Methodist Conference Meets at Clarion
The Eve conference of the Methodist Episcopal church met in Clarion with Bishop Franklin Hamilton presiding. Sessions run daily with addresses by Rev. M. H. Lichliter and others on country church problems, missions, and endowments. Highlights include Women’s Home Missionary society anniversary and ordination service.
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Methodist Enisconal
Clarion
Franklin Hamilton
Saratoga
M. H. Lichliter
Cleveland
Ora Miner
Epworth League
E. I. Waldorf
Endowment Fund
W. P. Murry
Fletcher Homan
Erie
G. E. Colvin
Warren
Women’s Home Missionary Society
Dink Marsh
W. S. Lewis
Foo Chow
China
Women’s Foreign Missionary Societies
Lewis
Camden M. Cobern
Meadville
Freedman’s Aid Society
W. H. Crawford
Allegheny College
J. Garlang Penn
Cincinnati
Hamiltton
A. J. Rinker
Freeman D. Bovard
Philadelphia
L. O. Harttman
Chicago
Argentina Sells Wheat Mainly to Allies in Six Months
Argentina exported 1,379,962 tons of wheat to allies over the last six months with British ships carrying almost all shipments and the United States taking less than 100,000 tons.
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Argentina
United States
Vast Railroads Move Great Wealth and People Worldwide
The National Geographic Society bulletin highlights U S railroads with 257 569 miles of track at mid 1915 and 391 000 miles including yards. It notes 65 000 locomotives 2 827 000 cars and 976 000 000 passengers carried in the year ending June 30 1915 along with 1 802 000 000 tons of freight and 2 596 000 000 in operating revenue. It also cites 1 409 342 employees earning about 1 165 000 000. average wage 826 per year and officers engineers and conductors among highest paid.
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Washington
D. C
United States
National Geographic Society
Europe
Belgium
Spain
Netherlands
Bohemian Dam Flood Buries 250 in Village Disaster
Berlin reports a Bohemia mountain dam breach sent two metre floodwaters through nearby villages. The base spans 52 metres and height 13 metres with waves up to twenty feet. By noon Tuesday 250 bodies were recovered, many children among the dead.
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Berlin
Bohemia
Hirschberg
Silesia
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Penguin
Shackelton
Columbia
N.C. Shaeffer
Methodist Conference
U. S
Girdle Globe
Reoad
Bohemian
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