Roads Prosper Under New Law In Des Moines
Des Moines reports show six months of 1907 promising profits for major railroads. Passenger receipts rose sharply in August, aided by fair traffic and no excursion rates. Freight volumes also jumped, with carloads up and pounds moved, driven by Des Moines business growth and the Greater Des Moines push. Freight and passenger gains cited across Iowa lines amid a 2-cent fare law and statewide economic expansion.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Rock Island
Medical education flaws cited by AMA committee
Dr. Chester Mayer warned that 3000 of 4000 medical school graduates yearly are unfit to practice and 58 percent of examined graduates in 28 states are denied licenses. Reports claim many graduates cram, schools teach exam passing, and some doctors lack pharmacy knowledge. Plight includes dangerous malpractice, unsafely left surgical items, and high numbers of criminal operations, with hundreds of thousands of potential malpractice cases implied nationwide.
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Chester Mayer
State Board of Medical Examiners of
Kentucky
American Medical Association
Committee On
Chicago
Mayer
W. T. Gatt
Indiana Guard
Atlantic City
M. Clayton Thrush
Medico Chirurgical College
Philadelphia
Ilenry Gents, Jr
Pennsylvania, State Board of Medical Examiners
Ilceasure
Henry G. W. Rieinhart
Errors in Nature History Show Highlight Child Essays
A Natural History exhibit showcases pupil essay misstatements about animals. Notable gaffes include claims that young horses save tong legs to keep up with mothers, confusion over the use of alive versus dead fowl in cock fighting, and the notion that pigs shed wool in summer to produce wool.
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Ott
Paper demand fuels rise of American spruce forests
The Forestry Bureau reports vast public lands and strict grazing rules to protect forests. Grazing permits allocate pasture among users. trespass cases rose last year, with fines and damages totaling about 5,576 dollars. Newsprint demand swells as mills rely on U.S. timber, prompting calls to adjust tariffs and cut paper prices.
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United States
Canada
Paper Trust
Government to Suppress Traffic in Girl Slaves
Government aims to curb the white slave trade with a new immigration inspector, Helen M. Bullis, assigned to develop information on trafficking. Appointed on Robert Watchorn’s recommendation, she will study and report methods used to smuggle women for immoral purposes, enabling deportation and punishments for traffickers.
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Bureau of Immigration
Atlantic Seaboard
Robert Watchorn
Dills Island
New York
Helen M. Hullis
Miss Bullis
Travelers' Aid Society
Watehorn
United States
Watchorn
Traction Autos to Be Used on Canal in Panama
Panama Canal officials in Washington announce plan to test two railroad traction automobiles on the isthmian line. Each car to carry ten, reach 40 mph on level track, climb eight percent grades, and sustain 50 mph with a 25 percent boost. 125 mile range on gasoline. Cars to serve in the inspection department under the chief engineer.
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Panama Canal
Washington
Commission
Isthmus
Panama
Still Owed for Them
In a club smoking room two men discuss a friend and his motor. They joke that he has not spent a copper on repairs for nine months and that the tale even reaches the man who has helped him.
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Wille
Willis Arnold
Brennan
Younker Bros. Department Store
Literary Notes in September Century and Wider Magazines
The September Century lists Dr S Weir Mitchells new novelette and notes on How to Acquire Clear Speech by John CBD Barry. It highlights Tayles Lincoln painting, Cook’s Lincoln Last Day, Shackleton’s A Country Under Two Kings, and Roosevelt and Nature Warders pieces in Everybody, St Nicholas, and American Review of Reviews. Also reviews of Saint Gaudens, Prohibition in the South, and new volumes by Sam Walter Foss and others, with various juvenile and series titles.
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S. Weir Mitchell
Mitchell
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
Lowards Tayle
Abraham Lincoln
Harger
Linccoln
Williiam H. Cook
Robert Shackleton
Tvhich
Lansevelt
Nature
W. J. Long
Naturalista
St. Nicholas
W Nicholas Macs
N. Hudson Moore
American Review of Reviieva
South
John Corrigan
Benjamin West
Henry W. Nevinson
Caspian
Black Sea
Harper's Weekly
North American Review
Atlantic
Anna A. Rogers
Karl Percy
Harold Murdock
New York
Sam Walter Foss
George Cary Mguleaton
Gayle Langford
Harold Morton Kramer
Tod
Ruth Erskine
Pansy
Phillips Exeter
A. T. Dudley
Secon
Lyerett
Tomlinson
Edward Stratemeyer
Andes
Kenton Vines
Rowdain College
Kielen Grant
Ofte Voluma
Nelen Grant
Amends
AM. Douglas
Marion’ Vaieuddon
Nina Rhoades
Indy
Prines
Randy
Amy Brooks
Norothy Deinty
Dorothy Dainty
Amy Brows
Ale van Leer Carrick
Edith M. TH. Baylor
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Huegle
Marion
Warren
Madison
Shelby
Polk County
Trbal
Board of Control
Knoxville
Lars
Massachusetts
Bard
Kansas
Western Fruit Jobbers’ Association
Towa
American
Hayward
Legal Department of
H. T. Saberson
Secretary of State
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Robert Benson
Rick You
Forestry Bureau Rules
Ment
Lam
Ukcwe
Sam
Richard Arding Davis
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Boston Tierald
Cleveland Plaindealer
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