Doctors and faith in medicine spark broad discussion
A longer discourse surveys medical credulity and methods, contrasting doctors’ egos and patient trust. It cites cases from Chicago Medical Examiner and others to argue medicine works when guided by intelligent prescription. It laments puff pieces and quackery while praising diagnostic tools and professional rigor.
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Billy
Chicago Medical Examiner
Scarlatina
Hoag
Knox
Indiana
Journal of Materia Medica
Curtis & Perkins
White Willow Fences Bring Rapid Prairie Enclosures
An Iowa Nebraska prairie farming note promotes live fences using Honey Locust Osage Orange and White Willow. It cites Mr. C. B. Mendenhall of Marshall County Iowa who shows extensive White Willow fences and a twenty acre grove valued at $500 an acre. It gives detailed planting steps for rapid growth to a three to four year fence and six year perfected enclosures.
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Nebraska
Iowa
C. B. Mendenhall
Marshall County
Texas Cattle Thieves Terrorizes Inland Counties
A Houston Telegraph report details armed bands known as the Taylor and Sut ton gangs roaming from Indianola to Cuero, driving off cattle toward Kansas. Citizens form 80 to 125 man guards, law and order falters, concealment laws fail, and travel rents fear. a call for state action to arrest and try the outlaws is urged. A separate distressing tale from Lewisburg recounts a starving family saved only by a local merchant and Masonic aid, with $80,000 in Fort Smith road bonds hidden in a trunk amid regalia. The mother remains gravely ill, and a newborn’s survival hangs in the balance.
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Astley Cooper
Mpperi
Houston
West
Indianola
San Antonio
Taylor
Sutton
Kansas
Cuero
Victoria
Texas
Kaufman
Mr. Chapman
Lewisburg
Chapman
Fort Smith Road
Little Rock
Starved to Death of Kaufman Family in Southwest Swindle
A New York family, Kaufman, lured by Wall Street bond swindle, arrives in the Southwest with $80,000 in bonds. Illness, famine, and desertion by the husband drive the wife to tragedy as she endures exposure beside railroad tracks seeking aid. The prose details a fatal decline and desperate flight from ruin.
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Kaufman
New York
Little Rock
Kansas
Missouri
Lewisburg
Quantrel in Texas West of Sherman Now Residing in Secret
A Nebraska City man reports General Quantrel alive in northwestern Texas after fleeing Kansas. He claims Quantrel’s gang and other outlaws operate there under false names, with detectives on their trail but at risk of vanishing into Mexico. Describes organized, armed bands across Denton, Clay, Cooke, Montague and border counties.
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Nebraska City Press
Texas
General Quantrel
Sherman
Kansas
Quantrel
Mexico
Denton, Clay, Cooke
Montague
Missouri
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