Unions Strike in Saint Paul and Winnipeg Talks Continue
In Saint Paul about 6,000 members from 16 unions walked out in sympathy with common laborers demanding 60 cents an hour, a 10 cent rise, a nine hour day, and union recognition. Several trades including steamfitters and bricklayers joined the strike. carpenters had settled separately. In Winnipeg, H G Veitch said talks shift to direct conferences as negotiations aim to settle the central strike with conciliatory discussions ongoing.
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Associated Press
St Paul
Carpenters' Union
Trades Building Council
Builders Exchange
Common Laborers’ Union
Winntpegers
Ton Cenfer
Winnipeg
Man
H. G. Veitch
Central Strike Committee
Joe Hosmer Not Ill of Typhoid, His Letter Says
Relatives report a letter from overseas in the United States motor transport department stating Joe Hosmer is not ill with typhoid. The missive, dated May 3, explains a mistake in recording identification numbers and asserts he is on duty daily and in good health.
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Joe Hosmer
United States Motor Transport Department
Joe
Calls for serum as dog bites rise in Iowa towns
Des Moines May 21. The state board of health received calls from Newhall and Oakville Ia for serum to treat persons bitten by dogs thought to have rabies. The demand for this serum is on the increase apparently.
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Des Moines
State Board of Health
Newhall
Oakville
Plague Battle in Near East Draws In Major Allied Aid
American British French and Greek doctors wage an urgent campaign to stop plague spread along the Aegean coast from Saloniki to Constantinople. Red Cross and allied armies organize sanitation, delousing, and famine relief as refugees suffer under shell destruction and disease.
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Constantinople
Aegean Sea
Saloniki
Red Cross
America
England
Near East
Macedonia
Struma Valley
Drama
Serres
Kavalla
Xanthi
Xermin
Javalia
Bul ‘Baria
War Department to release names of French death casualties
Washington May 21 The War Department expects to publish by name the reports of individual casualties in France. General Pershing was instructed to require division adjutants to prepare and forward detailed reports to Washington on how each soldier met death.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
Son
France
Pershing
Washington
Cabinet asserts people enslaved by allies terms
A cabinet statement notes the war aims as high in principle and free of conquest. It argues the cause is just and holy, requiring a settlement of equally noble motive, binding allies and nation to righteous outcome.
Wool Growers Form Local County Association Aim to Improve Prices
Black Hawk county wool breeders met at the Chamber of Commerce by call of county agent A A Burger to form an association. A May 8 meeting in the game place will finalize the group which will join the state organization of about 1 700 members. The aim is to obtain better market prices by recognizing quality and condition of wool rather than flat rates. L G Foster of the Ames bureau of markets spoke on the organization’s purpose. Buyers have been paying a flat rate regardless of wool quality, according to growers.
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Bureau of Markets
Ames
Peptiron Promises Strength for the Weak and War-Weary
An advertisement urges pale and nervous people to take Peptiron containing iron manganese wax and pepsin for quick recovery. It claims long lasting positive effects and rapid improvement for run-down individuals affected by war excitement or epidemics. Sold by C. I. Hood Co. Lowell Mass.
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C. I. Euod CO
Lowell
Mass
Americans study abroad find easy time at school
Fort Dodge Iowa May 21 American soldiers attending foreign universities report easy conditions. Sergt Leslie Fabrier, ex Fort Dodge newspaper man at University of Lyon, says government pays regular wages plus $2 daily for meals. Room and clothes free. Red Cross assistance keeps daily costs under $2. They are supposed to work eight hours daily but manage their own study.
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Fort Dodge
Sergt
Leslie _Fabrier
University of Lyon
Freckle Cure Lotion From Lemons and Orchard White
A cheap facial lotion is advertised: squeeze juice from two lemons into a bottle with three ounces of orchard white to make a quarter pint of freckle and tan remover and complexion beautifier. Grocers stock lemons and drug stores or toilet counters supply three ounces of orchard white for a few cents. Apply daily to face neck arms and hands to fade freckles and blemishes and produce clear rosy-white skin. It is claimed harmless and non irritating.
Study of Social Conditions As Reinterpreted By Commandant
The speaker notes a study of social conditions was viewed by the old commandant as equally valuable as other subjects, mentions the commandant went crazy later, and describes being replaced in their absence. They record studying French an hour daily and geography two hours weekly, leaving time for social condition study.
Fragmentary OCR Note On Global Retail Ventures
The readable fragments mention American department store sectors and attempts to open shops abroad in Buenos Aires and Ric del. reference to weekly meetings and French British operations. The text is incomplete and unclear about dates, entities, or outcomes.
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Ise
America
Etorgs
Ratire
Tan
Taneu- Lao Weil
Buenos Aires
Ric del
Janeiro
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E. J. Dunkelberg
Black
F.C. Lee
Sycamore Street
DR. L. B. Kascht
Waterloo
WM. H. Ross
Leavitt and Johnson Building
Honra
J. E.karth
BOYCE
Optometrist 202
Lowat
Isterisat Doa
Black Hawk Bank
Indianapolis
The
Prest-O-Lite Co
Waterloo Storage Battery Co
West Fifth Street
Uree
Wis
Miller Brewing Co
Milwaukee
Waterloo Fruit & Commission Co
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