New Orleans Battles Yellow Fever With Sweeping Cleanliness
August reports show twelve new yellow fever cases and eight deaths as New Orleans launches a city wide street cleaning. The campaign enlists city labor, jail prisoners, and volunteers to scrub, cart away refuse, and curb infection while health boards adjust quarantine rules and immigration controls to prevent spread.
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New Orleans
Board of Health
State Board of Health
Lafayette
Marine Hospital Service
Fever Treatment Opens Gates for Scientific Aid
Guatemalan authorities restrict access to Bach houses as they push a new medical approach. Officials believe this alternative will remove obstacles to scientific fever treatment and speed aid to patients.
Morgan firm continues talks to buy Hankow Canton concessions
New York reports J P Morgan & Co keeps negotiating to acquire the Hankow and Canton railroad concessions and the China American Development Company property. European offers are not being considered. The sale is now tightly linked to diplomatic developments as Chinese governments respond.
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New York
Hankow and Canton
China-American Development Company
Herald
J. P. Morgan & Co
Morgan
Thirteen Bodies Found in Myers Store Collapse
Albany August 10 thirteen dead bodies recovered from the John G. Myers department store collapse. Fifteen to twenty may remain trapped as wrecking crews remove debris. Several injured are listed in critical condition with fears for others still missing.
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Albany
N. Y
John G. Myers Company
Hans
New York Central
Delaware and Hudson
Ella J. Donahue
William Borst
Windom
Minn
Winifred Kelly
Railroads to Adjust Rates Discussed in New York Conference
Traffic managers from trunk and western lines met in New York to discuss differential tariffs on sugar and coffee for gulf ports. Preliminary steps were taken toward a formal Niagara Falls meeting next Friday to pursue unified rates.
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New York
Gulf Ports
Gulf
Niagara Falls
Wife Desertion In New York Magistrate Court
In New York Magistrate Poole’s court one hundred women and many children demanded warrants for their husbands desertion and non support. He called wife desertion a serious menace to domestic life and issued two warrants while referring other cases to court officers for immediate action.
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New York
Poole
New York City
Lake Park Citizens Arrested for Whitecapping Riots
Warrants issued against Justice of the Peace W. T. Corbett R. W Wheeler D W Dame Paul Carter and Henry Connell all Lake Park residents on rioting charges. They allegedly abducted and flogged a Black man named Bill Pierce who testified against Wheeler a merchant linked to unlicensed whisky sales. A rescue occurred as whitecapers drew pistols. Bond set at two hundred dollars each for upcoming superior court term.
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Valdosta
Justice of the Peace
W. T. Corbett
R. W Wheeler
D .W. Dame
Paul Carter
Henry Connell
Lake Park
Bill Pierce
Wheeler
Fire Claims Two Black Women in Dallas Tenement
In Dallas on August 8 Mrs Annie J. Taylor aged 59 and her 19 year old daughter were burned to death in a two story Elm street tenement fire. Several other occupants escaped with narrow margins. property loss described as small.
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Dallas
Tex
Annie J. Taylor
Elm Street
Georgia Bigamist Arrested in Atlanta Extradition Process
John R Haynes, a fugitive from justice, was taken to Atlanta today by Deputy Sheriff N A Chastain with extradition papers charging bigamy. He allegedly has three Georgia wives and two in South Carolina. Maud Moore, 17, who claims to have married Haynes in December, is in Sheriff Powers care and to be returned to her Atlanta mother.
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Mobile
Ala
John R Haynes
Atlanta
N. A. Chastain
Haynes
Georgia
South Carolina
Maud Moore
Powers
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