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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1911
Page
4
Maj Gen Frederick D Grant reports the army upholds high temperance standards among officers and men. He notes the public campaign publicity law lacks teeth in scrutinizing how senators are elected, a point raised amid broad wartime governance discussions.
More than 200 patients were fed and then led from the Dun ning Insane asylum in Chicago as a fire broke out in the vacant west wing. Nurses and staff physicians evacuated the patients and later returned them to their wards once control was secured.
Joseph Jefferson III, grandson of the renowned stage star, dies at his summer home in Bussard's Bay Massachusetts from epilepsy. The death is reported as sudden and natural following an illness, with no other details given.
Indiana reports that Monroe County Schools Superintendent William H. Jones charged University of Indiana students $1 for the privilege of taking teacher examinations plus 15 cents postage when papers moved elsewhere for grading. The state superintendent Greathouse says Jones had no right to extra fees and may order an investigation. The dispute affects many students and could trigger refunds.
Indiana will treat rabid dogs victims with Pasteur serum from U S government labs. Previously serum came from a private Philadelphia firm but new State Board of Health lab equipment allows using government serum, lowering treatment costs.
Government bacteriologist Henry Garman and Dr Grim investigate the Buffalo gnat as a possible source of pellagra in Kentucky’s mountain counties, focusing on Whitley county where cases are most numerous. They work with authorities to trace transmission though the exact method remains unknown. New pellagra cases appear in the mountains, with no new victims in three state asylums.
Ohio crop statistics from the Thirteenth Decennial Census show 1909 values led by corn at 82.3 million dollars, hay and forage at 42.4 million, wheat at 31.1 million, oats at 23.2 million, potatoes at 9.38 million, and tobacco at 8.99 million. Wheat acreage fell 48 percent from 1879 to 1909, dropping from 2.56 million to 1.83 million while other crops increased.
Reports from London Kentucky recount a church shooting eight miles north of town. Bert Allen wounded Miss Christy Hensley and Will Hurley after mistaking Mollie Gains for his target. Upon realizing the error he killed himself.
Washington reports the center of population in the United States lies in the western part of Bloomington Indiana. Census officials corrected errors found by geographer Sloane after officials issued the initial official report. Over the last decade the center moved westward about thirty-nine miles and 36 seconds of longitude, a slight shift.
Two Mormon elders were campaigning in Kamvar when a crowd of women banged dishpans creating a loud disturbance. Women frustrated the speakers and water was thrown. husbands and brothers joined in, resulting in a melee and the meeting breaking up.
Veterans and physicians gathered in Bethlehem New Hampshire for the annual Hay Fever association session. The event featured veteran sneezers and doctors sharing old and new remedies with numerous suggestions for the afflicted.
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