Cholera Plague Ravages Russia Amid Mounting Deaths
Reports from St Petersburg and Odessa reveal 40 000 cholera deaths in two months with hospitals overwhelmed and miners fleeing as the disease spreads. Officials warn the epidemic may rival the 1908 outbreak with thousands more cases and heavy mortality across southern Russia.
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Russia
Odessa
Central Sanitary Bureau
Yeekaaterinoslav
Don Cossacks
United Mine Owners’ Association
Disappointing Discovery Among City News Boys
Two newsboys with papers meet in the street. Jim claims to have found a dime his friend thought he lost. He teases Bill by saying he found the hole the dime went through, prompting a reaction and a cheerier mood.
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Big City
Bill
Jim
Gradual Reduction Process alters meat intake
A Chicago Tribune joke about a Slow Reduction Process in diet showing a family moving from beef to offal including cuck steak beef hearts kidneys and pickled tripe as a humorous progression. The dialogue hints at planned further reductions.
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Raynor
Shyne
Chicago Tribune
French Surgeons Probe Link Between Nervous Diseases and Wireless Telegraphy
French surgeons seek a connection between rising nervous diseases in the navy and the use of wireless telegraphy. The investigation aims to determine if radio exposure or operational stress contributes to medical symptoms among sailors.
Concrete snowsheds to replace wooden structures on railways
Engineers warn that immense concrete snowsheds will be built this summer along Western railways to guard against deadly snow slides in the Cascades and Rockies. The Northern Pacific and Canadian Pacific lines face repeated avalanches that wood sheds failed to withstand.
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Henry Gruber
Northern Pacific Railway
Washington Post
Northern Pacific
Cascade
Rocky Mountains
Canadian Pacific
Nickel Lesson Turns Into A Lesson On Sharing
A young boy named Harry learns about impulse buying and generosity when asked to share his shiny nickel. He replies that money vanishes quickly once spent, illustrating a simple, humorous caution about value and self-control.
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Harry
Esse
Insanity Recovery Rates Cited in Historical Note
A brief historical nugget notes that of persons stricken with insanity about one third recover, reflecting early attitudes toward mental health and prognosis.
Big Sister Movement Aims To Aid Working Girls
New York Mothers' Club appoints a Big Sisters committee to engage in entertainments and wholesome employment for working girls on holidays and to assist schoolgirls. The plan follows the Big Brothers model, addressing neglect and cruelty in families and the public school community. Mrs. Irwin leads the effort as committee chair, focusing on targeted help and individual cases.
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Big Sisters Committee
New York Mothers’ Club
Big Sister
Big Brothers
New York Evening Telegram
Precocious Foresight in a Young Explorer’s Plan
In a Washington Star excerpt, teacher rebukes Tommy for geography errors as the boy jokes that when grown he will be an explorer. He says he will avoid minute accuracy to prevent observers from discrediting his observations.
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Tommy
Washington Star
Judge rules immigrants involved in immoral work deportable
Federal Judge C. H. Hanford upholds the amended immigration act and holds that all aliens engaged in immoral occupations are subject to deportation regardless of residency length. He denied Umi Yoshida’s habeas corpus petition, stating Congress may expel aliens with or without cause and that the three year limit no longer applies.
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Seattle
C. H. Hanford
United States
Hanford
Umi Yoshida
Congress
Yoshida
New Use for Blotting Paper in German Machinery Cleanings
German workers replace cotton waste and sponge cloths with blotting paper for machine cleaning. Blotting paper reduces dust and fibers, costs about one third, and poses less risk if caught in moving engines. The paper is cheaper, less combustible, and tears rather than pulls hands into machinery.
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Germany
Harper's Weekly
Thackeray's Correction at Epsom Downs
A distinguished foreign visitor in Thackeray's company at Epsom Downs notes the crowd of sailors in St James Budget. The native eyes see true sailors while Thackeray reveals the joke that they are only Epsom salts.
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Thackeray
Epsom Downs
St. James
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