Hidden Dangers of Library Books Spread Disease in Kentucky
A Kentucky article argues that second hand school books contaminate youths with diphtheria and other illnesses. It cites Dr Kuslewski and a Chicago library study showing germs on volumes. Officials are urged to ban second hand books to protect children.
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Cincinnati
Shng
District of Columbia
Alaska
Porto Rico
Philippines
Pearl of the Antilles
Cuba Libre
Chicago Public Library Board
W. A. Kuslewski
Kentucky
J. N. McCormack
Bowling Green
State Board of Health
Contagion Fear Drives Call to End Secondhand School Books
Randall Hare warns in a Roanoke Coteau Queen Prairie Belle piece that secondhand school books risk spreading diseases like smallpox scarlet fever and diphtheria. Lexington doctors and Health Officer Healey urge discarding such books and insist on thorough disinfection, strong regulation, and buying new volumes to protect children.
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A. J. Andrews
Lexington
Gymnasium
Kentucky University
Healey
Chicago
Health Department
Kentucky
Randall Hare
Roanoke Wins as Jim Harcourt Returns Pappoose
In a chaotic Dakota track scene the mare Roanoke leading the field battles Coteau Queen with Bud the jockey. Jim Harcourt risks the race to save a pappoose from the course, earning cheers from the crowd while bets are declared off and a dinner with Judge Osborne looms.
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Roanoke
Buckskin Jones
Gibson
Bud
Jim Harcourt
Harcourt
Jim
Jessie
Juéze Osborne
Shunka Li
Osborne
Oxy
Luella Lathrop
Ahen
Coteau
Osborn
South Dakota
Pla-Louie
Judge Osborne
Three Collect for Church in Dutch Village Service
Clifton Johnson observes a Dutch village church where three elders collect in sequence for the minister church and the poor with peat-filled boxes and long poles. The ritual yields about 115 cents per person in today’s money and the minister continues his sermon as collectors move through the aisles.
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Holland
Clifton Johnson
Leyden
New England
America
The Solution a Walk For Mrs Gray And Guests
Mrs Green and Mrs Gray discuss separation as Mrs Brown enters. If any one stays or leaves a council forms about who talks with whom. The solution is for Mrs Gray to accompany her visitors for a walk.
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Mrs. Greene
Mrs. Gray
Mrs. Brown
Mrs. Green
Mrs.Brown
Hoston Transcript
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Miss Long
Queen Prairie Belle
Wild Rose
Massachusett’s
Amelia Lathrep
Beeen
Emma Goldman
Emma
Goodman
Holland Village
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