Parishes Enact Stringent Quarantines Amid Fever Fears
Shreveport reports embargo on freight and provisions as yellow fever panic spreads through Louisiana and parts of Mississippi. Calcasieu Parish orders travel halt. rail service and mail lanes curtailed. Refugees face hunger on trains. Archbishop Chapelle and Monsignor Chapell urge public health measures.
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New Orleans
Mississippi
Louisiana
Calcasieu
Southern Pacific
Watkins
Kansas City Southern
Rapides
Mermentau
Grant Parish
Lafayette
Tensas Parish
Board of Health
Farrar Richardson
Marine Hospital Service
Canal Street
Shreveport
Alexandria
Archbishop Chapelle
Monsignor Chapell
Jonesboro
Ark
Calcasieu Parish
Mermenton
Behrman
Writ Filed To Halt Kennedy Tax Payment In Texas
A Beaumont oil firm files for a temporary injunction in Twenty sixth district court to stop state tax collection under Kennedy tax bill. Judge Brooks grants the writ and the company posts a 22000 bond. In Austin, City National Bank merges into Austin National Bank, taking on debts. Governor Lanham returns from Fort Worth after visiting his ill daughter Grace.
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Austin
Texas Company
Beaumont
Twentysixth
Brooks
City National Bank of Austin
Austin National Bank
City National
Lanham
Fort Worth
Miss Grace
Fatal Morphine Overdose Claims Music Leader in Emma
J L Mac Master of Minneapolis representing the International Conservatory of Music of Dallas died in the Witt hotel Emma Texas after an assumed morphine overdose. He suffered asthma and collapsed unconscious despite prompt medical aid. He was a young man with a wife in Minneapolis and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Local lodge handled the remains and sent them to relatives.
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L. S. MacMasters
Emma
Tex
J. L. MacMaster
Minneapolis
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Not a Drop as Cold Storages Close in Denison
In Denison on August 4 for the first time in city history no liquor is procurable as all cold storages close. Also noted is the death of Alexander Hay, longtime mail route agent. Texarkana reports the Eleventh Texas cavalry and Third Arkansas cavalry annual meeting, hampered by quarantine rules, with plans to reconvene in Detroit, Texas.
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Shreveport
Denison
Alexander Hay
Texarkana
Eleventh Texas Cavalry
Third Arkansas Cavalry
Detroit
Tex
Cooper Grocery fire Causes Major Stock Loss in Waco
In Waco on Thursday night a blaze at the Cooper Grocery company wiped out about 70 percent of its stock, valued at $200,000. The firm had suffered a prior fire only weeks earlier, estimated at $75,000.
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Waco
Cooper Grocery Company
Missouri Implements Statewide Quarantine Border to Border
A statewide health board quarantine extends along Missouri eastern border to St. Louis and southern border for yellow fever risk. Local boards will set detention camps or stations, with state intervention if needed. Entrants from danger zones may be held inland if they lack a bill of health.
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St. Louis
Board of Health
Kanasas Cit
Boards of Health
Four Suspects Transferred to Hoffman's Island
From the steamer Nueces arriving at quarantine on Friday four suspects were removed to Hoffman's Island for observation due to abnormally high temperatures. The group included one steerage passenger and three crew members.
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Hoffman's Island
New York
Nueces
Galveston
Hoffman’s Island
City Marshal Assassinated in Baxley
City Marshal Askenwell was shot and killed after attempting to arrest A. J. Chestnut in Baxley Georgia. Chestnut fled pursued by twenty five businessmen, fired twice at the mob and was killed and jailed. Chestnut claimed the motive was illegal liquor.
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Baxley
Askenwell
A. J. Chestnut
Chestnut
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Yellowstone National Park
Alexandris
Calcasien Parish
Rigolets
Ivy
Oyster Commission
Nunez
Ship Island Canal
Tipsey
Bryanice
Xcoal Company
Judge Brooks
GIN Insurance
Bryan
Oliver
Geo. A. Adams
Parker Building
Stevenson Machine
Vinci
F. J. Jenkins
Buchanan
S. W. Buchanan
Bryan Steam Laundry
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