Solace Remedy Promises Quick Uric Acid Relief
An advertisement for Solace Remedy by The Solace Co of Battle Creek promotes a medical cure for uric acid troubles. It claims German scientists discovered a treatment that purifies blood and dissolves uric acid crystals with no opiates, compatible with weak stomachs. The firm offers free boxes on request and cites testimonials, including a banker’s letter from R L Morris. Boxes priced 25c 50c and $1.00.
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Solace CO
Battle Creek
U. S
R. Lee Morris
First National Bank of
Chico
Texas
Solace Company
Memphis
Tenn
R. L. Morris
Solace
Solace Remedy Co
Battle Creek, Mich
Canal Zone opens permanent civil government under Goethals
The Canal Zone begins a permanent civil government today with Colonel George W. Goethals as Governor of Panama, replacing the Canal Commission. Troops stay under the Secretary of War while 2,500 will form the operating and maintaining force as work winds down. Completion targets include dry docks, coaling station, new docks, sea walls, and two breakwaters with readiness aimed for July 1914 and practical use by early 1915.
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Colon
Canal Zone
George W. Goethals
Panama
Canal Commission
Canal
Goethals
Panama Canal
Good Roads and Rural Population in Brazos County
A Bryan reader argues rural depopulation harmed Brazos County between 1906 and 1910, noting rural losses of about 600 balanced by urban gains in Bryantown. The letter compares Brazos to Texas as a whole and cites Shelby Nacogdoches and Cherokee counties for context in population changes.
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Rusk
Liberty
Sabine
East Texas
Brazos
Limestone County
Freestone
Texas
Brazos County
Bryan
H. L. McKnight
The
Eagle
Godley, Tex
Eagle Printing Company
Tex
Bryantown
Shelby County
Nacogdoches County
Cherokee
New Immigration Policy Proposed by Gulick
Professor Sidney L. Gulick presents a U S immigration plan in the Survey urging a annual inflow cap by percentage of naturalized citizens and their American born children He argues the policy would reduce Asiatic influx and cites projected numbers from Germany Britain Russia and Japan It frames fair treatment of Asians as a path to resilience and quarrels over the so called white and yellow perils.
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Japan
Sidney L. Gulick
United States
Senate
Wilson
Viscount Chinda
Gulick
March Magazine
Germany
Great Britain
Italy
China
America
Asia
Notice to Hunters on Navasota River Pasture
Posted pasture on the Navasota river warns against trespass or hunting. Violators will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. By Mrs. H. Kurten, Sr.
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Navasota
H. Kurten
Department Clerk Loughery Dies Suddenly in Austin
E H Loughery aged 50 a statistical clerk for the Texas State Department of Agriculture died suddenly at his home in Austin after contributing numerous agricultural bulletins to farmers.
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Austin
Tex
E. H. Loughery
State Department of Agriculture
Governor Sayers Backs Tom Ball For Governor
Former Governor Joseph D. Sayers announced today his support for Tom Ball in the race for governor. The endorsement was made in Austin, Texas, and signals cautious backing amid a crowded campaign.
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Sayers
Tom Ball
Associated Press
Austin
Tex
Joseph D. Sayers
Forests and Plants Dominate North America and Europe News
The article notes Canadian patrolmen guarding Northern Manitoba forests, gun stock material from walnut remnants in Pennsylvania, and Ghent grown Norfolk Island pine specimens widely used as ornamental plants. It reports Tongass Alaska timber sales, canker disease on Japanese chestnuts in California, and linking risk to the Eastern chestnut blight.
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Ghent
Belgium
Europe
America
United States
California
San Francisco
Japan
Haven Metcalf
Obedient Willie Confuses Barque With Bow Wow
In a classroom scene Willie misreads a passage about a vessel. The teacher prompts barque as the correct word and Willie answers bow wow, eliciting classmates' reactions as the moment ends.
Senator La Follette Seeks Unlawful Influence Bill
Washington April 1 Senator La Follette introduced in the Senate a bill making unlawful attempts to influence any proceedings before the Interstate Commerce Commission except in accordance with the commission s own regulations He announces he will present evidence tomorrow of attempts to influence the commission in the Eastern rate case now pending.
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Associated Press
Washington
LaFollette
Senate
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
New Orleans Merger Talks Unite Times-Democrat and Picayune
Negotiations for the consolidation of the Times-Democrat and the Picayune, two long running New Orleans morning papers, are near completion. The merged daily may be titled the Times- Picayune with increased capital stock and directors. D. D. Moore could helm the new operation.
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New Orleans
Times-Democrat
The
Picayune
United States
Nicholson
Leonard Nicholson
Thomas G. Rapier
Associated Press
Rapier
Times-Prisoune
D. D. Moore
Denatured alcohol use climbs in Germany and Europe
Germany now uses between forty and fifty million gallons of denatured alcohol yearly with over thirty million sold to the public for burning. France consumes about eighteen million gallons and the United Kingdom roughly four million, per a monograph by Charles A. Crampton. The fuel is gaining for general burning and as a potential motor fuel as efforts expand.
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Germany
France
United Kingdom
Charles A. Crampton
Department of Commerce
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Production and Use of Denatured Alcohol in Principal Countries
Government printed monograph Special Agents Series No. 77 outlines production and use of denatured alcohol in major nations. Copies cost five cents and are available from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington D C.
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Special Agents
Superintendent of Documents
Government Printing Office
Washington, D. C
Seagoing Sportsman Rivalry on New Orleans River
Two roustabouts from New Orleans challenged each other to a long distance swim for five dollars. The "Alabama Whale" swam several times before the "Human Steamboat" returned with wrapped provisions for the voyage. The match hinged on endurance and travel plans to New York and London.
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New Orleans
N’ York
London
Bryan Concerns to Issue Bonds
Rail road Commission grants Bryan & Central Texas Interurban Railway Company authority to issue and register 221000 dollars of first mortgage 6 percent bonds. The line serves Brazos and Burleson Counties with bonds due January 1 1944. General attorney J W Doremus was in Austin on the matter.
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Railroad Commission
Bryan & Central Texas Interurban Railway Company
J. W. Doremus
Austin
Brazos
Burleson Counties
Horrible Murder in Arkansas
An unknown assailant killed Mrs. Elihu Francis and her two children with an axe after setting their Arkadelphia home on fire. Her husband escaped with one child and says he saw the killer flee down the road. Francis was a farmer.
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Arkadelphia
Ark
Elihu Francis
Prancis
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Government Today
Grove
Soc
J. W. Hunigutt
NEW Immigration Policy
Forestry Notes
Manitoba
Pennsylvania
Tongass National Forest
Alaska
Tongass
Willie
Pick Yune
J.-D
Bryan & Central Texas
Arkansas
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