Measures to Bar Infected Travel Into New Orleans
State board of health acts with Federal help to halt travel from fever zones into New Orleans to stop fever spread. Local officers may bar entry of acclimated or immune individuals if they worsen the outbreak, while residents can return home with proof of Louisiana residence. May include restrictions on Italians and other nationals, Negroes, and vagrants from infected areas. Yellow fever totals show 65 new cases, 1,665 overall, 232 deaths, 16 new foci.
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New Orleans
State Board of Health
Louisiana
Mississippi Gulf Coast
Mississippi City
Frank
New Orleans Baseball Club
Woman from Memphis Contracts Yellow Fever in New Orleans
A Memphis woman who traveled to New Orleans developed yellow fever on her second day there. Officials say no quarantine will be set for Memphis unless the case is confirmed.
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Jackson, Miss
New Orleans
Memphis
Map Made Calls For Forty-Seven Counties in Proposed New State
Muskogee August 26 The first complete map of the proposed new state shows forty seven counties with an average population around 16 000 higher than Arkansas and Kansas figures. The territory would encompass about 750 000 people and 666 square miles per county. Taxable value for the whole territory is estimated between 350 and 500 million dollars with Muskogee city alone valued over 10 million by City Assessor Zufall.
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Muskogee
Arkansas
Kansas
Zufall
Ketoowah Convention Backs Statehood Convention and Prohibition Clause
The Ketoowah convention at Buck Tucker Springs within the Cherokee nation drew about 2000 attendees. It passed strong resolutions endorsing a separate statehood constitutional convention and urged the inclusion of a prohibition clause.
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Muskogee
Buck Tucker Springs
Cherokee Nation
Suit Brought Over Post Office Move In Cornish
Citizens of Cornish I T sue to force Postmaster Clowdus to restore the town post office to its original site after it was moved at night to a new business district half a mile away. The case was argued before Judge Dickerson in district court and a decision was expected.
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United States District Court
Clowdus
Dickerson
Yellow fever control efforts in New Orleans and coast towns
New Orleans and Gulf Coast cities extend quarantines and fumigation as yellow fever cases rise. Authorities report 15 new cases and six deaths by Saturday noon while residents receive mosquito barriers and shipments of fruit are screened. Professor Boyce supports federal action and stegomyia as the disease vector.
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New Orleans
Marine Hospital Authorities
Boyce
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Boyse
Gulfport
Biloxi
Bay St. Louis
Pass Christian
Mississippi City
Souchon
Patterson
State Board
St. Tammany's Parish
White
John C. Slight
Louisiana Avenue Methodist Church
Bishop Galloway goes to New Orleans to aid yellow fever
Nashville August 26 report says Bishop C B Galloway president of Vanderbilt university board of trustees has cancelled all engagements and travels to help efforts in fighting yellow fever and assist sufferers New Orleans Galloway is immune having survived a severe 1878 attack.
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C. B. Galloway
Vanderbilt University Board of Trustees
New Orleans
Bishop Galloway
Municipal sulphur store opens at cost in Shreveport
Shreveport residents rushed to buy fumigating material in four pound packages at cost as the municipal sulphur store opened. Several thousand pounds sold in the first rush. A general fumigating will take place at once. Passenger service within the parishes resumed by several roads. The detention camp reports no current sickness.
Readiness Orders for Colonial Regiments and Warships
Toulon authorities issued instructions to mobilize colonial regiments and to hold warships in readiness as of Friday.
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Toulon
Long Cipher Message From Oyster Bay Reaches Portsmouth
A lengthy cipher message sent from Oyster Bay to Assistant Secretary Pierce arrived in Portsmouth at 1 30 o clock Saturday morning.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Oyster Bay
Pierce
Verdict for 18000 Dollar Against Bank in Missouri
In Federal court at Joplin Missouri S E Moss of Dallas won a verdict for 18000 dollars against the Exchange Bank of Webb City. Moss alleged the bank colluded with promoters of a fake footrace that cost him the money. The case will be appealed.
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Joplin, Mo
S. E. Moss
Dallas
Exchange Bank of
Webb City
Moss
Governor Cox Rules Out Troop Dispatch in Tracy City
Governor Cox said he did not think it necessary to send troops to Tracy City Tennessee where two miners were assassinated allegedly by union miners.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Cox
Tracy City
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