Sioux City Faces Wage Readjustment for Street Car Workers
Sioux City Iowa April 1 – revenue from last year’s 6 cent streetcar fare fall short for current wage scales. E L Kirk manager of Sioux City Service Co says a conference with Amalgamated Association No 779 is requested. Union members vote on authorizing their grievance committee to negotiate. A tentative 10 percent cut to about 45 54 cents an hour may be proposed if accepted.
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Sioux City
E. L. Kirk
Sioux City Service Company
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway
Altho
Kirk
LT. Woodward
Trucker Sentenced for Check Fraud and Wage Debate
A farmhand from Montour, C J Rogers, was sentenced to 16 years in Anamosa reformatory after attempting to cash two bad checks drawn on a bank in Montour. The piece notes opposition to a 6 cent fare due to reduced traffic from fewer workers and higher operating costs.
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Trucr
C. J.rogers
Montour
Grand
Aged County
Anamosa
Toledo
Rogers
Tama
Teamster’s life saved by Peterson’s Ointment Co. ad claims
A testimonial from William Haase of West Park Ohio dated March 22 1915 attributes a severe leg sore lasting years to Peterson’s Ointment with successful healing after other doctors failed. The letter praises eczema piles and skin cures and promotes Peterson’s Ointment at 50 cents a large box, with mail orders through Peterson Ointment Co. in Buffalo New York.
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Peterson
William Haase
West Park
Ohio
P. G. Reitz
Peterson Ointment Co., Inc
Buffalo
Girls Give Officers a Ten Mile Chase
Mira M duer and Nisw Phyllis Horne, both in their early twenties, were fined 100 dollars each or 30 days in jail for defrauding hotelkeepers at West and Jackson hotels in Sioux City. Police said the pair eluded officers for about ten miles through South Morningside before capture after failing to provide funds.
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Sioux City
Mira. M. Duer
Nisw
Phyllis Horne
West
Jackson
Charles L. Lockie
Sam Page
Cleveland Girls Tell Side at Police Court
The two girls sat in custody on the Prisoner’s bench with the matron present and giggling before testifying at the police court session. Each girl, from Cleveland, spoke her version to Justice Lockie about the incident.
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Pace
Sadie EK
Smith
Lockie
Cleveland
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Sioux City Traction Company
Sloan
EB. Lawrence & Co
Chicago
Waterloo
Saw Drug Co
Wangle
Taggart
Robert
Teamster
Tanee Gensnaricus
Bart Rece Sradarap Recewttce Co. Borl, Pocatlanta. GA
Chamberlain
Leath
Yiiyt
Great Lakes
Newark
U.S.A
New
Panama
Goodyear
Oxford
Work Shoe Stores Co
United States
East 4Th Street
Sycamore Street
Milady
EATH
S.T
Berkey & Gay Furniture
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