Court Rules Law Is Valid In Rail Strike Settlement
New York March 21 The four great railroad brotherhoods and railroad executives sign a settlement ending the dispute. The agreement raises the combined railroad salary list by about 50 million dollars yearly, benefitting over four hundred thousand workers. President Wilson's intervention prevented a strike, with backing from the national defense effort. In Washington, the Adamson law was upheld by the Supreme Court 5 to 4, sustaining an eight hour day and wage increases, affecting interstate railroads and prompting national defense considerations.
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New York
Washington
Wilson
Diltmore
U. S
Elisha Lee
Managers’ Committee
National Conference Committee of Railroads
Council of National Defense
National Defense
Court
Congress
Supreme Court
White Roads
White
McKenna
Holmes
Hook
Agreement Averts Major Rail Strike After Supreme Court ruling
New York March 21 agreement signed by railway managers and workers chiefs to settle disputes. Changes adjust overtime rules across road and yard service, eight hour basis introduced where applicable, and mileage or hour rules upheld for passenger service. Court decision upholds Adamson act and affects wage and hour provisions with potential future rate adjustments.
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New York
Railway Managers’ Committee
Brotherhood
United States Supreme Court
Nsert
Czar Abdicates as Revolt Ends Russian Monarchy
Petrograd and Moscow rise in simultaneous revolt as Czar Nicholas II abdicates for himself and the czarevitch. The duma forms a twelve member provisional government while a new cabinet is named. Empress Alexandra’s influence questioned amid a wave of arrests and killings.
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Petrograd
W Nicholas II
Russia
Czarevitch
Michael
Alexandrovitch
The
Duma
Alexander Protopopoff
Interior Department
Imperial Council
Prince Looff
Czar
London
Reuter
Tsarskoe-Selo Palace
Nicholas
Alexandra
Alix
Hesse-Darmstadt
Czxar
Committee of the Duma
Kronstadt
Gulf of Finland
Revolutionary Movement
Pepelauff
Taskine
Copenhaugen Ekstrabladet
Haparanda
Sweden
Germany
Supreme Military Council
M. Rodzianko
M. Chtchegiovitoff
Council of Empire
Moscow
Rodzianko
Governor advocates education for constitutional convention
Indiana Governor Goodrich opens a campaign to educate the state ahead of September's constitutional convention. He calls for a budget system, cites abuses in the recent appropriation bill, and argues for gubernatorial veto power over items to curb misuses.
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Indianapolis
Fort Wayne
Goodrich
Senate
House
Mail theft on liner prompts quarantine inspection at sea
Postal inspectors boarded the liner at quarantine after a wireless message from the captain. They found twenty six bags looted and ripped open with a knife. Captain Benson said mails were intact as of Saturday and Washington and the British embassy were disturbed.
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Washington
Laxoria
Benson
War reportage from Petrograd reports wanton firing in streets
A Petrograd correspondent describes civil war in main thoroughfares with rifles and machine guns in use. He notes no word of surrender or decisive situation from authorities. The dispatch reflects urgency to prosecute the war.
State Fair Plan Fails Over Board Reform
Governor Goodrich refused to receive a bill converting the state board of agriculture from a semi private to a state institution. The measure, backed by a governor appointed slate, died without action as legislators proposed reform with Governor’s recommendation.
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State Board of Agriculture
Goodrich
Collicott Named Deputy State Superintendent in Vocational Education
Indianapolis school controversy eases as Horace Ellis, state superintendent, announces J G Collicott will become deputy state superintendent in charge of the vocational education department after his term as superintendent ends April 8. Collicott’s new post places him within Indiana’s public instruction framework.
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Collicott
Indianapolis
J. G. Collicott
Horace Ellis
Retired State Superintendent Charles A Greathouse
The record notes the retirement of Charles A Greathouse from the office of state superintendent of public instruction. He had been appointed by the governor and served two terms totaling six years in the office.
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Charles A. Greathouse
Marshall
Goernor
Three U S Ships Sunk by Divers 48 Missing
Consular reports from London and Queenstown confirm the sinking of three American vessels in the Darred zone. City of Memphis Illinois Vigilancia torpedoed without warning. 14 from Vigilancia and several Memphis crew listed as missing. Crews included Americans, Norwegians, and others. state of war sentiment grows in Washington.
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Vigilancia
City of Memphis
Washington
State Department
Frost
Queenstown
City of
Memphis
Cardiff
New York
Fastnet
Hull
Admiralty
Baltimore
Ireland
Skinner
London
Department
City
Illinois
Port Arthur
United
States
Germany
United States
Congress
Wilson
Tex
Scilly’ Islands
Norway
Portugal
Spain
United ‘States
Cook
Borum
Ilinois
Texas Company
New-York
Don
Marine Records
Newport
News
Iversen
Walker
Armstrong
Savannah
New
York
Azores
Havre
Marine
Chester
Lapland Arrival Mention Stirs Morning Teaser
Fragmentary note references Lapland arrival and a morning routine or matinee wakefulness. Names and concrete details are unclear in the OCR snippet, leaving a terse, event-like feel with unnamed individuals and places.
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Clarke
Day
van Devanter
Pitney
McReynolds
Goethals Commission
Gregory
Republic
Georges E. Looff
Paul N. Milioukoff
Manulloff
Moscow University
A. J. Guchkoff
M. Ichingareff
M. Tereschtenko
Kiev
Kerenski
Saratoff
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State Board of Tax Commissioners
Indiana
State Board
County Boards of Review
Board of Public Works
Clifford
Superior Court
Edward G. Sourbier
Marion
County
Bell
Reginald H. Sullivan
Marion County Construction Company
Sourbier
Herron Art Institute
Otto Stark
Wayman Adams
Simon Baus
William Forsythe
T. C. Steele
C. A. Wheeler
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