Rail workers face millions in wage losses in crisis
B F Yoakem in dialogue with a New York Times reporter outlines severe wage cuts for railroad employees. He cites monthly losses of 25 million dollars and a daily payroll shrinkage matching Washington's deficit, urging action to restart construction, restore employment, and revive industry nationwide.
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B. F. Yoakem
Rock Island- Frisco Hines
New York Times
Jines
Yoakum
Texas
St. Louis
Farmingdale
Low
Washington
Railrood
Philippines
Congress
Brust
Grieving for His Old Home and the Jail Tale
A sorrowing man in Sing-Slug jail recounts selling his old home to be torn down, a passerby offers a dollar, and a mystery about the jail as his shelter unfolds. The tale ties into Harper’s Weekly with notes on the Gilbert Islands and missionary work.
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Sing-Slug
Nan
Air
Harper's Weekly
Fragmentary dialogue on a damaged page
A snippet shows a quivering exchange about a wife read aloud and a suggestive claim. The terse dialogue hints at intimate interaction with veiled innuendo and unclear context from a damaged article.
Trade Unionism and Its Place in American Prosperity
The trade union enables fair living labor valuation and protects merchants by guiding employers to recruit honestly. It serves as a clearing-house for help, though imperfect, with gains outweighing losses as unions endure. If history guides, unions will persist and shape a just industrial future for the United States. Labor Day is celebrated to honor workers and advance harmony between employer and unemployed, fostering a more intelligent grasp of production and social cohesion.
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Izbor
Our Republic
United States of America
Boston Central Labor Unios
Union Reform Aims And Methods For Good Time Coming
The union outlines reforms it pursues including eight hour workdays, halted Chinese and contract labor, elimination of sweatshops, and higher wages. It pledges to abolish child labor and seek initiative and referendum across states as a path to broader reforms. The movement touts progress and argues initiative will enable broader change.
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SAT
Growth of American Federation of Labor Evident
Its Wisdom Shown 2H growth of organized labor in the United States is shown by the great increase in the membership of the American Federation of Labor the most powerful body of wage workers in the country if not in the world. Organized labor is stronger in America than ever before. The cry for the open shop and the heated denials of the opponents of the boycott the closed shop and the sympathetic strike is met on every hand by examples of the wisdom of collective bargaining on the part of working men when dealing with their employers and the continuance of union shops by cooler headed employers.
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State of
New York
Jacob Schif
Mr. Yoakum
United States
American Federation of Labor
America
Great unions' milestones and the eight hour day
Francis J. Clarke, president of the Massachusetts Branch of the American Federation of Labor, extols two top achievements for unions favoring child labor limits and the eight hour day. He urges unions to champion wider adoption of the eight hour workday to push forward other workers' issues.
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Francis J. Clarke
Massachusetts
Americas Federation of Labor
Rise of a reporter who shaped the Republican platform
Wade H Ellis, a Cincinnati journalist, rose from Kentucky roots to influence national politics. He drafted key portions of the Republican platform with Roosevelt and Taft, later becoming Ohio attorney general and possibly poised to succeed Bonaparte. Ellis earned his law degree in 1889 from Washington and Lee, practiced in Columbus, and served as Cincinnati corporation counsel before rising to state attorney general.
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Washington
Kentucky
Wade H Ellis
Cincinnati
Ohio
Ellis
Roosevelt
White House
Taft
Pennsylvania Avenue
Bonaparte
Queen City
Buckeye
Hayes
Cincinnnati
Legal
Washington and Lee University
Columbus
George Cox
Cincinnati Tribune
State Inch
Peruna claims and US Dispensatory review of ingredients
The text questions Peruna as a catarrh remedy and cites the United States Dispensatory for ingredients like goldenseal and formosa corydnis as a tonic. It notes cedron seeds as a bitter tonic and cites testimonials as evidence, inviting readers to request a free book of testimonials while quoting a dialogue between Miss Sentimental and Mr Manyack.
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United States
Doane Kidney Pills Promise Quick Relief
A Cambridge New York woman, Mary E H Rouse, credits Doane Kidney Pills with curing five years of kidney pain, back discomfort, and weakness after using other medicines. Ad claims the product, sold for 50 cents, restores health and references FosterMilburn Co Buffalo N Y. The rest of the passage includes assorted quotes on dirt hygiene, teacher appreciation, a courtroom exchange, Postum beverage testimonials, and unrelated anecdotes.
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Mary E. H. Rouse
Cambridge
N.Y
All Deasers
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
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Hiram Bingham
Honolulu
Alameda
South Seas
Gilbert Islands
Wade H. Ellis
W Taft
Miss Sentimental
Milton
Mr. Manyack
Washington Herald
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Uf Wellville
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