Health Officer duties and disinfection rules adopted in Anita
The town board adopts rules for Health Officer qualifications and duties including sanitary oversight of schools and public buildings. It details quarantine approval, disease reporting, and sanitary conferences, plus an extensive disinfection protocol with formaldehyde and potash mixtures, room prep, ventilation, and antiseptic solutions for various diseases.
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State Board of Medical ‘Examiners
Thim
Board of Health
State Board of Health
State Board of Medical Examiners
Boards of Health
Localord of Health
Pat Public Ox
Board To Health
Local boards of health adopt state rules in 1908 notices
Trustees and town officials in Grant township Anita and Wiota Iowa certify adoption of revised rules and regulations from the Iowa State Board of Health. Meetings in April 1908 and May 1904 authorize publication and enforcement of chapters one and two. H R Hell and J F Wells sign as mayor and clerk with witnesses.
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Grant Township
Cass County
Board of Health
State Board of Health
J. CG. Wenkins
J. F. Wells
Anita
A. D
Wiota
Iowa State Board of Health
H. Hell
C. G. Chenowetel
Thiala
Franklin Township
State
Local health boards adopt state rules for Cass county townships
The Benton Lincoln and Cass county local boards of health meet April 6 and adopt the state board of health rules as printed November 1, 1907. They order publication in the Tribune of Anita Iowa. RC Judd and A F B Rodison chairmen with township clerks designated.
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Tribune
Anita
RC. Judd
E. D. Keasey
Board of Trustees
Benton Township
Cass County
State Board of Health
W. D. Keluer
Wa. Hall
Lincoln Township
Remarkable self-inflicted death tale from Paris
A woman recounts an extraordinary death by own action in Paris. A Frenchman, described as original, planned his death by rigging a window with weights and a balloon to lift his head, effectively creating an improvised guillotine. The decapitated body was found days later and the balloon and head discovered a week later eighteen miles from Paris.
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Paris
Rue Nitot
Old Maps Exhibit at Louisiana State Museum
The New Orleans Picayune notes an exhibit at the Louisiana State Museum featuring ancient maps of Louisiana from New France to the Pacific. They call many maps fanciful, placing mountains and rivers where they do not exist today, and mention a Mississippi River bend near the modern Louisville and Nashville line and a land of the menh enter area near Bay St. Louis.
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Louisiana
Louisiana State Museum
Canada
New France
Gulf of Mexico
Virginia
Carolina
Pacific
Italy
Holland
France
Mississippi River
Louisville and Nashville
Gulf
Florida
English Lookout
Bay St. Louis
New Orleans
A Coveted Picture Hidden in a Painter's Studio
A western man entered J. G. Brown's studio seeking a group street boy picture he helped model for in New York. Now prosperous, he offered 25 000 for the work as a keepsake of boyhood days, but Brown could not supply the original crew or the painting.
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J. G. Brown
New York
W. Howard Standish
Browlway Magazine
Darky Story Prompts Midwest Politician Tale
A Tennessee congressman recounts a tale of a neighbor known as Mose, a troubled Black man in his district. The tale frames Mose as a thinker while recalling a jail sentence and economic pressures from work wages versus incarceration costs.
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Tennessee
Darky
Mouse
Mose
Bass
The Tick of the Old Glock (Original)
A narrator recalls a 150 year old hall clock tied to a superstition of a death foretelling pendulum. After purchase the clock and its eerie ticking haunt him, causing sleepless nights and a near collapse as he counts 3000 seconds before recovery. The clock is later cleaned and repaired. ROBINSON M'BRIDE.
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Ife
Robinson M’bride
Redbeard Volunteers in Violent Outburst at G Territory Show
An account of Redbeard the red bearded man leading a brutal assault during a regional show. He and his followers clash with greasers, injuring several and killing one, then flee as authorities close in. The manager notes the violence and Redbeard departs with the troupe.
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Steasers
Rube
Rebar
Bewa
Redbeard
Espiadd
Shetty
Redbear
Ulm
Slaughter House
Theo Cavettf
Jedbeard
Ned Tance
Laurence FO
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Edee
Hite A
Pet Animalia
Anitala
Tribune of
W. Sears
Richardson
A. FB. Rodison
Wm, Watson
Dovley
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