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...American Medical Association published its annual survey of deaths from typhoid fever in U. S. cities of 100,000 or more population. In 1925 there were 77 such cities, 8 more than in 1920. Last year two such cities were entirely free from typhoid fever mortality?Lowell, Mass., and Scranton, Pa. The greatest mortality was in Memphis, Tenn...
...Lynett of the Scranton Times brought the conference together by a plan for a five year conference together by a plan for a five year contract at present wages, subject to successful negotiations at the end of two years. Because it protects against untoward wage reductions, the miners quickly accepted this scheme as a basis for conference. But the operators now object that it would freeze the wage scale, and are busy explaining that their return to conference does not mean acquiescence in Mr. Lynett's project...
...meanwhile having to continue paying their fixed charges. Want began to stalk in the homes of 158,000 miners in Pennsylvania. Relief agencies had to help the miners. In Luzerne, Schuylkill, Lackawanna Counties, 125,000 of whose total population of 893,000 men, women and children are miners, in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton, Pottsville, Shamokin, severe business depression grasped the entire communities. Meanwhile New England and the northeastern states to a large degree escaped suffering by learning to use substituteslvania legislators, businessmen and others. The period closed with the summoning of operators and miners to renew their negotiations...
...citizens were among the good folk, and these noted with pride and pleasure Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes of Manhattan among the primates, and close after him, Bishops Thomas F. Lillis of Kansas City, Michael John Hoban of Scranton, Thomas W. Drumm of Des Moines, John J. Lawler of Lead...
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