Conqueror of Two Plagues General Blue’s sanitation work
Rupert Blue, head of the U S public health service, is praised for eradicating bubonic plague from the United States and leading extensive sanitation campaigns. A North Carolina native, he became surgeon general in 1912 after medical training at the University of Maryland. He acted in San Francisco in 1903 and 1907 to quell the plague and supervised measures against fleas and squirrels to curb the pest.
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Gorgas
Rupert Blue
United States Public Health Service
San Francisco
General Blue
United States Service
North Carolina
University of
Great Italian Statesman Sonnino Shapes Italy’s Course
Baron Sonnino, Italy’s foreign minister, is portrayed as the pivotal statesman guiding Salandra’s cabinet. The article notes his British ties and Oxford education, emphasizing his cold head and warm Italian heart. It details his diplomatic battles with German and Austrian envoys and highlights the green book’s reveal of his aims and humanity.
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Italy
Baron Sonnino
Sidney Sonnino
Oxford
Salandra
Europe
Prince von Buelow
Baron Macchio
Rome
Has Fine Fighting Record Leads to Possible France Expedition
General Bell, commander in the Eastern department, is among a small group considered for leading an expeditionary force to France if war continues. His rise from lieutenant at the start of the Spanish war to brigadier and colonel of a seasoned volunteer regiment stemmed from merit and hard service in the Philippines, including under fire near Manila and brilliant campaigning that helped crush the insurrection.
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France
Bell
Philippines
Manila
United States Volunteers
Doctor Gorgas Honored for Tropical Sanitation Work
Doctor Gorgas, head of the army surgeons, earned wide praise for his Cuba and Panama sanitation drives. Under his leadership the Canal Zone death rate fell from about 65 per 1,000 to around 2 per 1,000, surpassing many U S cities. He declined offers to lead Serbia’s typhus cleanup and a Rockefeller post to benefit his country. Known as a mosquito hunter, he uncovered their role in tropical fevers and devised methods to control them.
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Gorgas
Cuba
Panama
Canal Zone
United States
Tropics
Rockefeller Foundation
Serbia
Western Mining and Oil News Highlights from Arizona to Colorado
Prices for metals listed in New York show lead, copper, and zinc values with ore shipments and unit rates. Jerome’s Venture Hill Verde Apex shaft reports ore. Shannon Copper opens rich ore near Jerome. Carlisle mine deep work reveals rich ore at 500 feet. Arizona copper production expected to top 700 million pounds this year amid ongoing mining activity in Superior, Jerome, and Steeplerook.
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Jerome
Superior
Arizona
United Verde Extension
Shannon Copper Company
Yaeger
Carlisle
Steeplerook
Golden Edge
Idaho Springs
Argo
San Juan
Brush Creek
Crested Butte
Jack Gunther
Creek-Sage Mining Company
Copper Creek
Gothic
Gilson Gulch
Highland Mary
Cunningham Gulch
Silverton
Carnduff and Duncan
Victor
Granite Gold Mining Company
Leadville
Boulder County
Congress
Evans Basin
Gunnison County
John Herr
Bayfield
Colorado
Cripple Creek
Isabella Mines Company
Lee
Rich strikes at Carlisle mine and Last Chance progress
New Mexico reports a rich Carlisle mine strike at Steeple Rock on the 500 foot level with ore rich in lead and silver. A 637 foot strike and a 900 foot level development at Last Chance show encouraging results as a long running gold and silver producer with over five million dollars mined. Old Black Hawk camp near Bullard Peak gains interest for its nickel cobalt arsenides and native silver as silver prices rise.
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Carlisle
Steeple Rock
Last Chance
New Mexico
Albert A. Leach
Black Hawk
Bullard Peak
Tyrone
Bilver City
Oil field activity in Wyoming and Dry Creek area rises
Reading from the field reports, Prudential Ol Company notes a 2.20 foot drop at Silver Tip while Dry Creek sees production in its cell. Hoyts and Wyoming partners announce two ptyings as spring opens. Large oil companies prepare for sustained work at Worland field with several companions expected to win contracts and gas output growing.
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Wyoming
Hoyts
Dry Creek
Prudential Ol Company
Oil Feldy
Worland
Prison Life and Marie Sukloff in Siberia Exile
The account follows Maria Spiridonova and Marie Sukloff, two political prisoners exiled to Siberia after revolutionary acts. Sukloff rises from illiteracy to literacy under a village reader, endures prison torture, and escapes with aid, while Spiridonova’s fate reflects the era’s brutal repression, exile, and near-execution witnessed by others sparked by revolutionary zeal.
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Hertchinek
Siberia
Maria Spiridonova
Chita
Luzhenoffsky
Tambov
Russia
Marie Sukloff
Miss Sukloff
America
Century Company
Marie
Odessa
Zhenia
David
Grigory
Nicholas
Ivan
Myself
Ciyela
Siberian
Japan
Vilna
Suklef
Geneva
Omliny Stehotil
Things That Are New Inventions And Clarifications
A garbled summary of various innovations, including a polished stool roller heated by electricity, a new luminescent limp device with a spiral core, the misnaming of gold vessels as plate, electric garbage-collection autos, a steam generator for medical use from Germany, and an auto horn beacon. It also notes the United States leading in peaceable production of hemp and rope, with other scattered claims about plants and fibers. The text is severely corrupted with many spelling errors and unclear phrases.
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Ferses i Epeerichos
Gieruincce
Piven
Electeletty
United States
Dulze
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Medical World
Mining and Oil News
Union News Service
New York
St. Louis
Boulder
Iberia
Zhenta
Marie Suklof
Kishinev
Tasemila
Kiev
Tchernigoff
Nicholai
Shuelzman
Irkutsk
The
Dienry
Russel
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