Death rates fall as cities show health gains
The article notes a broad easing of mortality across major U S cities with a New York Philadelphia Chicago Cincinnati Baltimore Boston and St Louis table showing lower per thousand death rates. It highlights improved sanitary conditions and physician skill and cites Atlanta as possessing top health advantages in the South.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Cincinnati
Baltimore
Boston
IBA
Louis
IBC
Atlanta
United States
Twenty Per Cent Murders Found. Cattle Costs and Diet News
A column of brief items notes that only about twenty percent of murders in America and Europe are solved. It cites Paris murder arrests, compares European and American detective work, and reports Massachusetts cattle tuberculin payments totaling 179,867.62 dollars for 5,275 head, with average costs, then discusses army diet for Klondike evacuees, favoring flours and concentrated vegetables. It adds editorial notes on big political majorities, a New York Journal piece about a boy who died from being too big, a crab and lobster thunder study, and a Russian czar anecdote, ending with the Bengal Canal as the world’s longest artificial waterway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
State Cattle Commission
The
New York Journal
New York
Hoa
National House of Representatives
Nenally
Earl of
New England
Vendome
Borton
Bouton Society
Ellen Terry
Paris
Naples
Rome
William Vernon Harcourt
Motley
Edna Johnson
Macon
Sre
Macon County
Ghent
Terreante
Ind
Alma Tadema
England
Laurens Tadema
Alma
Laurens
Lawrenes
L. Anna-Tadema
Lost: A Millionaire and a Scotland Yard Plot
Mrs Collins-Cox reports her husband missing after a forged £10,000 check leads to a kidnapping plot. Detective Wiseman uncovers a ruse by secretary Stainer and accomplices to fleece the London pair, with a staged kidnapping and a fake finger, ending in arrest and the return of Mr Cox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RS. Collinscox
Scotland Yard
Collins-Cox
London
Wiseman
Dean Mapas
Crora Street
Whitechapel
No. 17
Mr. Collins-Cox
Cnantes Kinxarrin Axp Co
Hasband
Mra. Cox
Madaw
Carlton Home Terrace
Coxes
Hiusbad
Mrs. Cox
Mr. Cox
Lanid
Bho
Mr. Stainer
Mrs. Oox
Cox
Carlton House Terrace
New Scotland Yard
Paris
New York
Enatody
New Wrinkle Pot Foundrymen Succeeds In Mold Casting
New York printing machine builders report a method using a machine-cut metal pattern and pre baked core to create perfect molds. The process lets the metal mold expand as clay shrinks, allowing the pattern to be withdrawn after cooling without defect. The result yields gear wheels with visible tool marks, claimed acceptable as finished parts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
A Turquoise Tale Of Color Folly And Fashion
A jumble of 19th century notes contrasts turquoise superstition with fashion advice. It cites Cardan on talismans for riders, Shakespeare’s Shylock, and modern social trends. It also covers perfumery, olive oil care for hair and skin, and a profile of Mrs. Stanford’s Somaliland hunting exploits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cardan
Fields of Adventure and Daring Mountain Lion Tale
A collection of rugged exploits and close calls from the American frontier and beyond. An 1850s Colorado mountain lion encounter near Ouray ends with a hunter’s shot and a lion rug, followed by a Sioux elopement from Pine Ridge to Chadron amid a 30 mile chase. Other pieces recount a train-robbery memory, a New Jersey bicycle coast plunge, Lord Beresford’s icy sea rescue, and whimsical vignettes of a miserly farmer, a tiny writing machine, and elderly banking feats.
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Colorado
Ouray
Giance
Pocahontas
John Smith
Pine Ridge
William Jacobson
Carlisle
Julia Beallard
Chadron
Neb
Cardale
Jacobson
Nebraska
Indias
Wounded Knee
Rockies
George Maybury
Old Bridge
N. J
New Brunswick
New Jersey
Summer Hill
George
Theorge
Michael Green
Maybury
Camden and Amboy
South River
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Milan
Topeka
Kan
Reading
Department of Public Works
New York City
Cornell University
Abigail Laughlin
Woodford
Cornell
New York Independent
Germany
Wolf von Schierbrand
Roy Stone
National League For Good Roads
Post Office Department
League of American Wheelmen
W. Stone
Congress
Pennsylvania
Engineering and Mining Journal
Int
Preston
America
Europe
Paria
Seine
Gaboriat
War Department
Klondike
Alaska
California
Hubby
Rushtons
Eona
P. S
Arabuke
St. James’ Cruzette
Bengal Canal
Erie
Afron Mason
Harper's Magazine
Sgvsoosshonsooss
Oxford Street
Newgate
the Exchange
Fonchured Street
Howe
New Orleans
Henley
British Columbia
Sayhusp
Jervis Talot
Georgia
Lleket
Viedek Lrtag
Mani Toularia
Rays Demorests
Times
J. Bennett Stanford
Dianna
Somaliland
Africa
Kiart
Edward W. Bok
Ladies’ Home Journal
Rosato
Lease
Kansas
Mise Moran
Richmond
Count Colonna
Farhlou
Fields OF Adventure
Kansas City
Thad
Lonely Pines
Charles Beresford
Faukland Islands
Charles
Lord Charles
Lord Folkestone
Faulkland Islands
St. James’s
Tam
Telegraph
Philadelphia Record
Truman H. Handy
Cleveland
Oho
Newberry
Detroit
Mich
Handy
Mercantile National Bank
John D Rockefeller
Wittlons
London Bankers’ Clearing House
Mlatograph
Francs
Phonograph
New Zealand
Tenlun
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