Legislative investigation urged on insurance business in New York
Gov. Higgins sent to the legislature a message recommending the appointment of a joint committee to investigate the insurance business in the state. The Senate named three members Armstrong, Tully, and Riordan to lead the inquiry with Assembly input to follow. The resolution provides $50.10 for expenses. The plan emphasizes timely action rather than delaying to the regular session.
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Uochanet
Mercantile Trust Co
Green's Anguat Flower Promises Health for All
Ad copy promoting Green's Anguat Flower as a remedy for disordered stomachs in adults and children. Claims include improved appetite, color, energy, and digestion with a few days of regular use. Marketed as a cold remedy for stomach troubles and a general tonic priced 79 cents.
How We Catch Cold
The article explains that circulatory disturbances from body surface chilling lower resistance, allowing bacteria to attack. It cites Durek's finding that rabbits with pneumococcus develop pneumonia under severe cold, while controls survive.
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Durek
Englishman Admits Puzzle Study Led to Panicked Escape
A man described as English reportedly fled to a spa or asylum after long hours of puzzle solving from newspapers. Medical staff treated him as he recovered, noting excessive reading affected his judgment and brain.
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Detroit Free Press
City National Bank Fallon to Open After Closures
Kansas City dispatch reports City National Bank Fallon will open Thursday after the Comptroller of the Currency ordered it to address bad paper. The bank has seen four sets of officers in five years and faced large withdrawals tied to the Topeka bank collapse. Depositors were mostly middle income residents, with about $600,000 withdrawn in ten days amid a broader banking crisis.
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Henry C. Deming
Hetired Pipemaren
Hendricks
James W. Alexander
Thomas D. Jordan
Equitable Tire Assurance Society
Judson
Baoks
Nelal
Equitable Society
Mayer
Toylee
Kansas City
rThe City National Bank
Fallon
C.F. Destin
Topeka
First National Bank of
Devlin
KR. E. Ames
National
Costly Footgear Steals Spotlight At London Event
A society woman wore diamond and ruby jeweled shoes matching a lavish gown in London. The price tag reportedly reached five hundred dollars per shoe. A separate Cork case records Eliza Tkuche's death with multiple wills over five years and a contested probate ending in settlement.
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Eliza Tkuche
Kilderrey
County Cork
Nothing New Is the Phrase Nothing Doing Slang
In Crevy Papers edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell a letter by Dr Currie dated May 1 180% to Thomas Creevy references Napoleon and uses the line We are all cursed flat three About the spinner negotiations Nothing doing Everything stagnated. It implies stalled talks and looming war as a likely outcome.
Only a Slight Difference Beards and Devils Recalled
An automotive enthusiast recalls Fiji visit notes locals worship of the machine as the father of all devils. He contrasts British fashion and Birmingham beard history with military mustache rules and a bygone era where a yard prompter served working class families.
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Fiji Islands
Atlives
Minneapolis Tribune
Birmingham
Holyoke
Survival stats for children across nations in 1900s
Yonkers Statesman reports child survival rates by country noting New Zealand 889 and New South Wales 850 out of a thousand reach age five, with Victoria 844 Ireland 837 England and Wales 762 France 751 and Austria and Spain lower.
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Victoria
Ireland
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France
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Austria
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Spain
Alfonso the Brave and other fragments in a Paris bomb story
A collage of brief notes and quips from various sources. It recalls Alfonso the Brave after a Paris bomb incident, then ponders divorce, Paris postal electric wagons, eye protection, English rural life, tree planting norms, a lodging joke, and contrasts of schools and prisons in England, plus livestock contrasts in Norway and London’s open-air sleepers.
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Elyria Block Shoe Store
Hiodes Bros
Hodes Bros
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