Officials urge large crusade against rats and field squirrels
Sacramento reports Surgeon Rupert Blue leads federal plague eradication on the Pacific Coast. California aims a big coordinated attack to protect grain fields and orchards with state help to county supervisors. Mutual action could curb squirrel and rat damage with modest annual cost.
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State
Sacramento
Rupert Blue
United States Marine Hospital Service
Pacific Coast
England
Europe
South America
Panama
California
Blue
San Francisco
California State Board of Health
Berkeley
Boards of Supervisors
Engineers to survey Maine wreck after Havana blast
A board of army engineers meets in Washington to plan the removal of the battleship Maine. They will first recover sailors' bodies and determine whether the ship was destroyed from inside or outside the vessel in Havana harbor.
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Washington
Cuba
Maine
Havana
Board of Army Engineers
Congress
Number of aeroplanes in France reaches eight hundred
Paris reports about 800 aeroplanes in use in France with 700 built in the last ten months. Since Bleriot crossed the channel his firm produced over 250 and Farman more than 100. Prices range from 2000 to 5750 dollars, with the industry spending around two million dollars on planes and similar on parts last year.
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Paris
France
L’illustration
Bleriot
Henri Farman
Farman
Census shows falling natural increase in 1910 figures
Washington reports 1910 census hints at a drop in native born growth despite high immigration. Internal growth may fall to about 6 percent, while urban areas surge with major city gains surpassing 50 percent. Rural districts mostly decline, New York adds residents, and rising city living drives overall costs.
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Washington
France
Census Office
Bureau of Immigration
Atlanta
East St. Louis
Akron
Detroit
New York
Benjamin Clark Marsh
Marsh
Bronx
New York City
Government Opens Nearly Two Million Acres of Lands
The Department of the Interior announced the opening of 1 737 000 acres in California Nevada for settlement on November 21 and December 1 entry. The land, stripped from irrigation projects and not irrigable, includes 205 000 acres in California and 1 532 000 in Nevada. About 679 555 acres in Arizona and New Mexico, removed from national forests, will open to settlement under homestead laws with settlement starting November 22 and entry December 1. The list includes parcels in Coconino and Corona do National forests and portions in Grant and Cochise counties.
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Washington
California
Nevada
Interior Pierce
Truckee Carson
Sacramento
Independence
Carson City
Carson City Land District
Arizona
New Mexico
Taft
Coconino National Forest
Coconino County
Coronado National Forest
Iving Ir Pinal
Pima
Cochise
Grant County
Cochise County
Ariz
Chiracahua National Forest
Government installs bronze bust of Robert Fulton in Guatemala City park
The government of Guatemala places a bronze bust of Robert Fulton in a city park in Guatemala City. The ceremony highlights Fulton’s engineering contributions and honors his ties to early American naval innovation.
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Gaatemala
Robert Fulton
Gautemala
London Growth Adds New Streets Yearly
London expands steadily with about twenty miles of new streets added annually London spans twelve miles wide and seventeen miles long showing ongoing urban development and planning activity.
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London
New York Set to Surpass London as City Populates World
Acting Mayor John P. Mitchell cites city statisticians estimating New York growing at 3.8 percent annually versus London's 1.6 percent. By 1935 or 1936 New York should be the larger city, and by 1940 it should exceed London by hundreds of thousands of residents.
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Greater
New York
Washington
Brooklyn
Census Bureau
London
Paris
Berlin
John P. Mitchell
Officials warn of danger in oysters as season opens
New York health authorities warn that typhoid risk rises with the oyster season. Dry weather has polluted streams and harbor waters, making New York harbor oysters unsafe. A state watch will enforce laws against selling from sewage beds and require permits showing origin of the shells.
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New York
Edward Hatch
State
New York Harbor
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