Serum Likely Preventive of Yellow Fever Disclosed
Paris reports a serum that shows 100 percent success in Asiatic apes and is being distributed to North African colonies. Dr. August Pettit credits Harvard’s Sellards and advances the virus theory shift, noting potential human cure pending minor modifications as six hundred vials begin tests in Africa. A London model railway fits a cigarette can, half an inch high, electric powered on a 3/8 inch gauge track.
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August Pettit
Pasteur Institute
Pettit
Academy of Medicine
Sellards
Harvard University
Paris
Noguchi
Stokes
Africa
London
Early marriages boom in England with many under twenty one
Records show 308730 marriages in the past year in England with 58000 couples under 21. Among them 12 bridegrooms were 16 and 84 brides were under twenty.
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England
Residents mingle in visits across towns and states
Mr. and Mrs. Hudspeth spent Sunday in St Francis with relatives. Grover visitors include Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Hudspeth and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hughes who plan to meet Hector’s sister and her husband. Clinton Wilson visits his mother in Grover. Hot Springs Dallas Memphis trips noted.
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H. E. Hudspeth
St. Francis
Clifford Hudspeth
Carl Hughes
Grover
City
Foster Hughes
West Seventh Street
Clinton Wilson
Levi T. Wilson
W. O. Payne
M. G. Emberton
B. M. Roberts
Memphis
Hattenbach
Estelle Edgar
Tennessee
Hot Springs
Dallas
Albert Gummo
Blackwell
Oklahoma
B. G Tharp
California
L. H. Morris
Oklahoma City
Boy Byrd
Dalhart
Guy Byrd
Better Than Whiskey For Colds and Flu
An advertisement touts Aspironal as a superior cold and cough remedy praised by laboratories and authorities. It claims rapid relief within two minutes, offers a money back guarantee, and urges purchase at drug stores for 60 cents per bottle, suitable for adults and children.
Five Women Solons to Enter Congress in 1929
Washington dispatch reports that five women will serve in the House of Representatives at the end of the Seventieth Congress. They are Mrs. Fannie Oldfield of Arkansas and widows Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, Florence Kahn of California, Katherine Langley of Kentucky, and Mary Norton of New Jersey. All but Langley are widows. Langley was elected under extraordinary circumstances in 1926. The five will be joined by additional women at the start of the Seventy-first Congress, bringing total to seven.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Fannie Pearl Oldfield
William A. Oldfield
Arkansas
Oldfield
Mary Teresa Norton
New Jersey
Edith Nourse Rogers
Massachusetts
Katherine Langley
Kentucky
Florence
Kahn
Julius Kahn
Rogers
John Jacob Rogers
Hoover Becomes Red Cross Member Before South America Trip
President elect Herbert Hoover is enrolled as a member of the American Red Cross before his departure for South America. Mrs. Hoover, Jr. is pictured pinning a Red Cross button on the incoming chief executive.
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South America
Herbert Hoover
American Red Cross
Herbert Hoover, Jr
Women named for Congress seats and labor union reform
The report lists Mrs Ruth Hanna McCormick Ruth Bryan Owen and Mrs Ruth Baker Pratt among those elected on November 6 with Pratt noted as New York's first woman congress member. It also notes the South African Mine Workers Union weighing constitutional changes to admit negro workers earning equal wages, and France reducing yearly shoe production from 100 million to about 60 million pairs.
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Ruth Hanna McCormick
Mark Hanna
Medill McCormick
Ilinois
Ruth Bryan Owen
William Jennings Bryan
Ruth Baker Pratt
Pratt
Congress
New York
The
South African Mine Workers Union
France
Amarillo Man Sells Crossword Puzzles Nationwide
Charles J. Lockhart, formerly with the Amarillo Refining company, is a leading crossword puzzle maker. A puzzle by Lockhart is under judge this week and he has sold many to the Chicago Tribune.
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Charles J. Lockhart
Amarillo Refining Company
London chapel reborn for cinema week and Sunday services
A London chapel remodeled with a proscenium orchestra pit and pulpit now hosts motion picture performances during the week and special cinema services on Sundays. Ex-members of the Le Cateau relief division marked the tenth anniversary by presenting a watering trough to the town.
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London
le Cateau
France
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Dane
Victor Brooks
Chicago
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Amarillo
K Witcherkirkin
Southwest
de Luxe Family
A Cleaners
McS
Hoover
RED Cross
NEA
ICE 4 Rubber CO. Ee
Tyler
Amarillo Man
Texas Company
Fort Worth
Chamois Seled
Thes HU Clothiers
Polk St
Borden
Borden Company
Texas
Waco
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