Gaynor's Stand on Wagner Bill in Veto of Public Welfare Plan
Mayor Gaynor vetoed the Wagner Bill which would have created a Public Welfare Commission. The New York Evening Sun praised his good sense and courage, arguing the bill would undermine police reform, shift responsibility, and invite graft. The piece cites Albany politics, Tammany influence, and recent police abuses as reasons for the veto.
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New York Evening Sun
Tammany Hall
Albany
New York
Rosenthal
Whitman
Lincoln milling machine shipped weighing four thousand pounds
Torrington May 23 The Hendey Machine Company shipped a Lincoln milling machine to an engineering laboratory in Dayton Ohio weighing 4000 pounds It was routed by Adams express due to West freight congestion and was the heaviest shipment ever received at the local office. A second item notes another Geological Survey fire in Washington on May 18 damaging the basement, risking the entire building and causing 7500000 in upper floors data.
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Hendey Machine Company
Dayton
Ont
Adams Express
Washington
United States Geological Survey
Washington Fire Department
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Fire Department
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Congress
Geological Survey
Waeshinaion Newsnswers
Bennett Clark Parliaments Youngest House Expert
Congressman Clyde H. Tavenner profiles Bennett Champ Clark the 23 year old son of Speaker Champ Clark as the House's youngest parliamentarian. It recalls his swift rise from University of Missouri AB degree to the extra session and notes his early start in Missouri campaigning and debate skill.
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Clyde H. Tavenner
Washington
Bennett Champ Clark
Bennett Clark
Charles R. Crisp
Congress
University of Missouri
Missouri
Clark
Bennett
Washington Public
Reuben F. Roy
Whiteside
Lincoln County
Judge Hoy
Nightingales Death Sparks Express Co Blame Probe
New Haven May 23 The Connecticut Humane Society agent investigates a complaint from lr. Stanley Gray Jr representing the Adams Express Company over a consignment of 25 Pekin nightingales and Black Nun birds shipped from New York. The birds died from choking due to lack of water after Gray asked the company to feed them.
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New Haven
Connecticut Humane Society
Stanley Gray
Adams Express Company
New York
Gray
New Britain
Cut-worms raise havoc in fields and gardens
Willington reports farmers complain of cut-worm damage. They are cutting wild flowers including lady slipper and jack in the pulpit, and iris in flower gardens is described as a great surferer. The terse item notes widespread pest harm as of May 23.
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Lady Slipper
Jack
Willington
Trachoma disease note urges universal prevention rules
The document warns trachoma is spreading and contagious, urging states and cities to mandate reporting, inspection, isolation, and treatment. It calls for school and factory cleanliness, running water, abolition of shared towels and cups, and nurse follow ups to prevent transmission, citing historical views and the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Board of Health
Early reference to infection carriers noted in 18th century text
The fragment cites an early understanding that healthy people can be carriers of disease. It attributes the idea to Richard Mead, founder of quarantine, who in 1721 described ship contagion and measures like burning the dead, washing the crew, shaving, and isolating them in lazarettos.
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Richard Mead
Lazaret
Mark Twain Biography Inspires Readers With Length
The biography by Albert Bigelow Paine runs over seventeen hundred pages and, despite reviews noting its size, readers urge even more detail. Yale professor William Lyon Phelps, among others, supports a longer volume and praises Paine’s work. A discussion on suffrage and a heroine adds color to the piece.
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Albert Bigelow Paine
Mark Twain
William Lyon Phelps
Yale
Paine
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