Thorough New Orleans fever crackdown tightens statewide quarantine
Health authorities report a highly organized yellow fever control in New Orleans with citywide house inspections and oiling of cisterns. Officials warn neighboring parishes are tightening quarantine, while Italian refugees and fruit trade disruptions fuel tension as cases appear in Lafourche, Ascension and St. Mary parishes. Governor Blanchard coordinates with the state board of health amid fears of spread.
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New Orleans
Tampa
Lafourche
Ascension
St. Mary's
Plaquemine Parishes
Baton Rouge
Tropics
Beverly Warner
Philadelphia
Board of Health
Blanchard
Alexandria
State Board of Health
Louisiana
Bowie
Southern Pacific
Lafourche Parish
Twelve Cents Favored by Texas Cotton Growers
The Texas division of the Southern Cotton Growers association at its final meeting adopted a resolution declaring twelve cents to be the minimum price for the new cotton crop and urged farmers not to sell below that. A committee was formed to gather crop data to support action with the general association. Colonel John D. Rogers spoke on lessons in exporting cotton and Captain James Garrity discussed fixing a minimum price.
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College Station
Tex
Texas
Southern Cotton Growers’ Association
General Association
John D. Rogers
Galveston
James Garrity
Corsicana
German Baptists elect Texas officers at Dallas meeting
Dallas July 23 report shows German Baptists of Texas choosing officers for the coming year. T A Shaible is president A Becker vice president Fred Jerger recording secretary R Fehlberg corresponding secretary and a five member committee to revise the assembly constitution was named. Also several committees named to handle various branches of work.
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Dallas
German Baptists of Texas
T. A. Shaible
A. Becker
Fred Jerger
R. Fehlberg
Woman Horsewhips Oil Driller in Lawton Feud
In Lawton on D avenue John W. Lang an oil driller was horsewhipped by Mrs. William Devens after a long standing grudge. She fetched a rawhide whip and struck him about twenty five times before police arrested them. both Lang and the Devenses posted bond.
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Devens
J. W. Lang
Lawton
John W. Lang
William Devens
D Avenue
Lang
Mr. Devens
Bond
Tragic Suicide Ties Arrest in Oklahoma City
Mrs H H Norton 1126 East Tenth street Shawnee killed herself in the city jail by cocaine poison after being arrested in connection with the disappearance of Mrs Katie Jones near Weatherford. In Chandler E W Cameron, a news agent, paid the first fine under a new anti cigarette law, $15, for selling cigarettes from a train.
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Shawnee
Okla
H. H. Norton
East Tenth Street
Norton
Sam Bartell
Oklahoma City
Jim Burnett
Katie Jones
Weatherford
Chandler
E. W. Cameron
Cameron
Fruit steamers unload under quarantine rules in Mobile
Mobile authorities allow healthy fruit steamers that have been at sea five days to unload at the wharves with strict quarantine. Vessels from infected ports must stay in the lower bay where lightering occurs under safeguards. Two steamers arrived from Bluefields and headed to New Orleans. In Tampa, Victor Vitello, an Italian recent arrival from New Orleans, has a mild yellow fever case and is isolated. A joint city county health board plans an expert trip to New Orleans while the Manufacturers' association calls for a stricter quarantine. Chattanooga recalls a 1878 yellow fever epidemic.
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Mobile
Ala
Bluefields
New Orleans
Florida
Tampa
Porter
Victor Vitello
Chattanooga
Tenn
County Board of Health
Manufacturers’ Association
Bridgman Remanded to Jail After Investigating Killing
Ardmore July 28 George Bridgman held after federal arrest for the killing of John Clark near Lebanon Monday. An examining trial before Commissioner Gullett remanded Bridgman to jail to await grand jury action. Both men were prominent Chickasaw nation farmers.
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Ardmore
George Bridgman
John Clark
Lebanon
Gullett
Bridgman
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Yellowstone National Park
Bryan
Oliver Typewriter
Geo. A. Adams
Parker Building
Doughty
Inn Brigg
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John C. Greer
Mercer’s Gap
Comanche County
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