Railroads Seek Wage Cuts to Lower Rates Across Country
After a Chicago meeting of nearly all major railroads, Thomas DeWitt Cuyler announces a plan to reduce wages for train service staff and other railroad workers. The aim is to lower rates for the public, with reductions to be approved by the railroad labor board and implemented promptly.
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Chicago
Thomas DeWitt Cuyler
Association of Railway Executives
United States
United States Railroad Labor Board
Labor Boards
Interstate Commerce Commission
Anstat
Railroad Labor Board
U S Ship Captain In Trouble Over Ignored Distress Call
Captain Albert Randell of the Hudson faces suspension after his vessel did not stop to aid three drifting men off Fire Island. The case, heard by the United States Steamboat Inspection Service, highlights the unwritten sea duty to render aid. The three men were rescued by the Nantucket after hours afloat.
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U. S
New York World
Albert Borland Randall
Shipping Board
Hudson
United States Steamboat Inspection Service
T. H. Rossbottom
United States Lines
Randall
United States
G. T. Charlton
Powhatan
Galls
Halifax
Hannibal
Caesar
Mars
Bridgeport
Teresa
Standard Arrow
Nansemond
Brook Haven
Whitestone, L
Nantucket
Fire Island
Boston
Philadelphia
Sheepshead Bay
Delaware Capes
W. C. Wickerson
Edward Dpd. Young
Williamsburgh
William F. Taveri
Albert Taveri
Virginia J
Young
Taveri
Sheepshead
Ambrose
Willa Sats
Davy Jones’ Licker
Lackawanna Valley
Albert Taverni
William Taverni
New York
Nickerson
Americans in Egypt Fight to Preserve War Time Trade
Cairo and Egypt see American business push to keep wartime trade gains after European competition resumes. The U S Shipping Board agency and American Express branches spur activity with Egyptian partners to maintain access for American manufacturers and shipowners amid renewed European rivals.
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Cairo
Egypt
America
Europe
United States Shipping Board
American Express Company
American Chamber of Commerce
Feyot
Japan
Alexandria
Ice Without Coupon Books
A note describes an immense glacier in Switzerland containing vast solid ice capable of building several cities the size of New York. The passage emphasizes the glacier’s scale and potential uses despite lacking coupon books.
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Switzerland
New York
Citizenship Figures For Large American Cities 1920
The Census Bureau released a preliminary table for U.S. cities with 100000+ population showing citizenship status of foreign born white men and women aged 21 plus as of January 1 1920. It details naturalized first papers aliens and unknown status, highlights Spokane and San Antonio shifts, and notes women’s higher naturalization rates with geographic variation across Louisville Albany Denver Des Moines Minneapolis Nashville St Paul Salt Lake City and other cities.
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Washington
Bureau of the Census
San Francisco
Louisville
San Antonio
Albany
Cincinnati
Denver
Des Moines
Minneapolis
Nashville
St. Paul
Salt Lake City
Spokane
Fort Worth
United States
Eiffel Tower of Milk Shows Vast Condensed Milk Use
A columnist imagines a base 100 feet square and a tower 1100 feet high made of condensed milk to show the immense wartime consumption. Four battalions could stand on its summit, illustrating scale.
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Eifel Tower
Seals Counted Like Sheep On Far Pacific Islands
The fur seals of the Privilof islands in the Bering Sea once numbered five to six million. Ruthless slaughter for skins reduced them to under a hundred thousand by 1008. International agreement now protects them and a yearly census is taken like a sheep herd.
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Privilof Islands
Bering Sea
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Eiffel Tower of Milk
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