Man offers to die in place of Scott in capital punishment bid
G P McGraws of Washington writes Governor Small of Illinois offering to die for Russell Scott if Scott’s Chicago murder sentence is commuted to life and the District of Columbia rejects an electric chair execution. McGraws seeks abolition of capital punishment and notes he was once sentenced to die in Ohio but was cleared.
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Negro ex slave Henry Holden buried with honors
Vicksburg Mississippi reported Henry Holden a former slave Civil War veteran farmer merchant and treasurer aged 106 died Friday and will be buried in the national cemetery Monday. He preached a funeral sermon last Saturday and was active at home Friday before his sudden death.
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State Health Lab Offers Free Public Health Service
The State Board of Health in Atlanta runs a top hygienic laboratory that educates visitors and explains germs. It processes thousands of samples for doctors, reports quickly, and provides free service while funding limits restrict expanding tests to cancer or Bright's disease. Water testing for municipalities occurs monthly, but private wells are not examined due to funding.
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State Board of Health
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Atlanta
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Is Your Well Or Spring Safe After Rain
After rain shallow wells and springs can become polluted by surface washings of human excrement. Proper protection by a sanitary privy is advised. The State Board of Health offers typhoid carrier tests, noting carriers may be immune yet contagious. Some states require two negative tests before release from quarantine.
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