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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1912
Page
3
A United Garment Workers movement seeks to unite all New York tailors with a mass meeting at Cooper Union to coordinate strikes and improve wages. Unions claim a bad year for garment workers as organizing efforts to mobilize women and men intensify amid stalled strikes and rising wage pressure.
Berlin aviators threaten to strike for 75 a week while New York hotels face ongoing labor troubles as waiters are recruited to replace potential strikers. Bricklayers in Butte win $5 with hod-carriers and plasterers at 5.50 daily. Illinois employers urge workers comp payments. House adopts eight hour coal rule but blocks union wage scale. Brantley Sutherland bill would fix automatic compensation for injured railroad workers, easing litigation.
The East Side barbers succeed in reducing hours and securing higher wages. Nine mules stir sympathy for Morgan Run miners in Coshocton Ohio causing a 75 man strike over alleged mistreatment of animals. Miss Amece Hutchinson dismissed for marching in a suffrage parade seeks another post. Authorities form a new Apollos police unit for Fifth Avenue wealth district. Canada eyes a 200 million bushel wheat crop and 25 demonstration farms. Formosa camphor trade rises to 58.99 million with refined output up. New Chicago Great Western rules ban red clothing and urge courtesy. Smith Premier unveils Korean language typewriter with 84 keys and many dead keys.
In Edmonton Alberta on June 5 the general assembly of the Canada Presbyterian church opened with hundreds of ministerial and lay delegates present. The assembly, representing 287,944 communicants, reports strong growth and a flourishing condition with notable membership gains in the past year.
Six thousand children from Manhattan orphan asylums enjoyed rides to Coney Island today. The event was organized by the Orphans' Auto Day association with motorists manufacturers garages and dealers taking part.
The Playground and Recreation Association of America opens its congress in Cleveland with focus on rural life. Topics include rural traveling libraries, gardening contests, corn clubs, athletics, and campfire activities. Speakers include Joseph Lee Jane Addams Jacob Riis and L H Bailey outlining economic and humanitarian motives.
Classified item notes list for page 7 column 1 shows sale and want ads. Details unreadable in fragment but indicates typical small-ads content. No full names or items clearly readable.
An advertisement claims deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian tubes and that Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure cases caused by catarrh. It offers $100 for any untreatable case and urges sending for free circulars from F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. Includes a notice to use Trall's Family Pills for constipation.
A certificate states Foley's Honey and Tar Compound contains no opiates or habit forming drugs and poses no harm. It touts healing properties for coughs colds and chest irritations and promotes the yellow package as genuine with substitution by Lense Pharmacy.
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