State Warned Of Malaria By Health Board
The Georgia State Board of Health issued warnings and prevention guidance about malaria in a recent bulletin. It explains transmission by Anopheles mosquitoes, typical malaria symptoms, and the need for timely treatment under physician supervision. It also urges use of screens and nets to prevent bites and notes the disease can persist for years and pose a danger to others.
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Georgia State Board of Health
Georgia
State Board of Health
Bright
Appointee Harriman to Lead Immigration Study Board
Mrs J Borden Harriman named by President Wilson to join a three labor employer and three public representatives Industrial Commission. She has long worked on immigration and social welfare, lectured on East Side conditions, opposed shipper fraud, and led women’s Wilson and Marshall campaign efforts.
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Industrial Commission
Harriman
S. Thurston Ballard
Louisville
Frederick A. Delano
Wabash
Employers of
Labor
John R. Lennon
Peoria
Ill
American Federation of Labor
Frank P. Walsh
Kansas City
Delano
Lennon
Taft
Congress
Senate
Washington
Sam
J. Borden Harriman
Julia Lathrop
Children’s Bureau
Three Hindus Get Admission to U.S.
Three Hindus arrive from the Philippines prompting immigration rule changes. Secretary of Labor Wilson, on Caminetti’s recommendation, asks mainland ports to reject aliens from insular possessions unless they prove not excluded or likely to become public charges. The move follows the three Hindu entrants to San Francisco.
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Washington
Pacific Coast
United States
Wilson
Caminetti
San Francisco
Philippines
Farmers Win Autos by Catching Foxes
In Canaan Maine Guy Nelson and Elmer Goodrich nets three foxes a mother and two kittens selling to fox farmer E W Wallace for 4000 dollars. Goodrich bought an automobile with his share while Nelson banked his and his wife helped in the capture and bought a car with her half of 2800 dollars.
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Bangor
Maine
Canaan
Guy Nelson
Elmer Goodrich
E. W. Wallace
Milbridge
Goodrich
Nelson
Chinaman uses accordion to win converts in China
Pittsburg June 21 William Yee Tang an Americanized Chinaman from Pittsburg sails to China to preach Christianity among his kin with an accordion as his tool. He plans to employ Salvation Army methods and will begin work in his birthplace town 150 miles south of Canton using the instrument to attract followers.
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Pittsburg
William Yee Tang
China
Salvation Army
Second Presbyterian Church
Yee
Canton
Bees Contract Drug Habit in Poppy Field
Columbus reports poppy cultivation around Fostoria endangers bees by luring them to nectar with narcotic flavor. The dopey blooms intoxicate bees, reducing honey storage as swarms populate poppy beds in the area. The paper notes poppy is a popular local plant and cultivation grows this year.
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Fostoria
Girls in Race to Break Most Hearts
In Los Angeles on June 21 Miss Minnie Matheis 18 and Miss Naomi Stimson 16, daughters of Mr and Mrs Math eis and Mr and Mrs Stimson, enter a contest for engagements. Matheis betrothed to Edward Francis Cline ends that leg of the race as a Sigma Chapter Alpha Pi Phi member.
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Los Angeles
Minnie Matheis
John Matheis
Chicago
Naomi Stimson
C. M. Stimson
Miss Matheis
Edward Francis Cline
Sigma Chapter
Alpha Pi Phi Sorority
Brewery Buys Radium to Celebrate Anniversary
The Chester's Brewing Company Limited shareholders in Manchester voted 1250 dollars to buy ten milligrams of radium for the Manchester Royal Infirmary to mark the firm’s 25th year. Chairman T C C Rogerson stated even with 99 percent error margin the radium would be in use by 2163.
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London
Chester’s Brewing Company, Limited
Manchester
Manchester Royal Infirmary
T. CC. Rogerson
Soldier Who Took His Wife Contracts For Fortune
Denver reports a Boston suit by Henry W. Steele a G. A. R. veteran claiming the estate of Colorado mining man Asa G. Fisher. Steele argues a Civil War pact with Fisher granted either man the other's future wife and fortune, contingent on which died first. Fisher married Mrs Steele after believing Steele dead. The case traces will, marriage legality, and a long legal battle culminating in Steele’s filing.
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Denver
Boston
Henry W. Steele
Steele
Asa G. Fisher
Colorado
Fisher
Massachusetts
Harry Fisher
Policeman Ends Turkey Trot at Orange High Class Night
In Orange New Jersey June 21 1913 patrons halted the tango and turkey trot at the class night for the nearly hundred graduates after a clash with dancers. A policeman, George Gascoyne, ejected a persistent youth and the hall resumed with a single escorted bow to Home Sweet Home as officials vow action.
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New York
Orange, N. J
Columbus Hall
Orange
George Gascoyne
Gascoyne
Sweet Home
Board of Education
Water carrier wins husband with tango at village fair
Madrid June 21 Engracia Torrelano a water carrier at Ferrol Spain won a husband at a village fair by dancing the tango while bearing a bucket full of water on her head.
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Ecial
Madrid
Engracia Torrelano
Ferrol
Spain
Soldiers Must Greet King on Arrival or Departure
London June 21 official order states that when the King arrives at or leaves Windsor the officers commanding the cavalry regiment and infantry battalion there must be at the railway station in undress uniform, or in full dress if an escort or guard of honor is ordered.
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London
Windsor
Royalty Welcome Despite Frock Coat Mixup in Rome
An American agricultural commission member tells of G R Hogan of a lona bank borrowing a waiter’s frock coat to attend a reception with the King and Queen in Rome. The party was instructed that men must wear frock or evening coats, leaving some in business attire barred at the portal. Hogan wore a blue vest and trousers with tan shoes and a gray felt hat and still gained entry.
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Oklahoma City
Oxfa
Europe
C. E. Lahman
Vinta
G. R. Hogan
Rome
Mrs. Lahman
Hogan
Sub Treasury Introduces Money Washing Machine
CHICAGO June 21 A money laundry has been installed in the Chicago sub-treasury The system uses washing machines to restore Uncle Sam's soiled currency to a pristine condition The project originated over three years ago by Joseph S Ralph director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to save costs by washing instead of destroying and reprinting damaged bills
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Chicago
Bishop Refuses to Let Pastor Wed Him
In Reading Pennsylvania on June 21 Bishop Henry M Lengel of the Church of the Followers of God privately wed Mrs Leah Young both of Reading. The 69 year old bishop, famed for aiding the poor, married the neighbor in a civil ceremony explaining ministers fall short. Lengel, retired, had just returned from an evangelistic trip to California.
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Reading
Henry M. Lengel
Church of the Followers of God
Leah Young
Alderman Miller
Lebanon
Lengel
California
Alaska Woman Honored by Governor's Wife in Nome Club
June 21 Nome Alaska. Mrs J F A Strong wife of the new Alaska governor lauds a 100 member women's club Kagoyah Kozga as a gathering place for Eskimos and a beacon of pioneer character and refinement. She praises North women for bravery hospitality and charity, and notes Alaska's social clubs and better representation of women.
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Seattle
Nome
Alaska
J. F. A. Strong
Kagoyah Kozga
Kozga
Strong
Kagoyah
Aurora
Northland
Maine
California
East
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Turkey
Whitehall
Main
DR. Whitlaw
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J. M. High Company
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Store
Vaudette Theater
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David G. Wylie
Tempe Foun R. Wylie
Hugh Richardson
Mrs. Fiugh Inman
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Eve R. Johnston
Inman Bldg
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