Lumpy Jaw Outbreak Raises Alarm at Union Stock Yards
State Veterinarian Casewell reports actinomycosis seen among cattle at Union Stock Yards with 25 to 30 head condemned weekly. He warns infections can spread and be missed by some packers, urging stricter inspection and quarantine to prevent transmission to humans.
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Union
McDonald
Joan Casewell
Union Stock Yards
Dr. Casewell
Feb & Espo
John Scott
Veoria
Nelson Morris
Casewell
J. J. Murphy
Throop Street
Ochsner
Presbyterian Hospital
Murphy
Chicago
Warm Water Laboratory Appliance Announces Continuous Supply
A laboratory device for continuous warm water at any set temperature is introduced. It uses a Bunsen burner with a thin metal double coil. one spiral carries the flame and the other transfers heat to water for steady output.
The French Arithmetical Boy Tops Paris Minds
The youth Jacques Inandi astonishes Paris with rapid mental arithmetic and a trick about birthdays. A skeptical man doubted his claim to reveal birth day of week, and Inandi correctly named the day, prompting a court action over a £100 bet now paid after an old Paris paper confirmed the result.
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Jacques Inandi
Greorge Ridder
Paris
Tuandi
Hey
Mandi
London News
French military balloon to test aerial navigation next spring
Commandant Renard leads a French army experiment at Chalais Meudon to pilot a cigar shaped dirigible balloon La France replica. The 300 foot craft features a bamboo steel car with a 45 horsepower gasoline engine intended for about 25 mph, with trials expected early next spring.
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Commandant Renard
Chichais- Meudon
la France
Meusnrer
Chalais
No Catholic Can Be British King
London Truth reports Princess Marie of Edinburgh would forfeit succession rights to the British throne by marrying a Roman Catholic, as her marriage contract reportedly includes a formal renunciation.
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Marie of
Edinburgh
Marie
London
Lincoln's Water-Wheel Case In Illinois History
In 1848 Chicago saw Parker v Hoyt over a water-wheel patent. Lincoln defended the accused infringer while Judge DPranmond presided. Lincoln demonstrated a windmill model from memory during his plea, and the jury returned a verdict in his favor after about two hours deliberation.
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Chicago
Parker and Hoyt
Adams
Butterfield
Abraham Lincoln
John Brink
Brink
Supreme Court
Dpranmond
United States District Court
Lincoln
Mr Brink
Mr. Brink
Aquams
Ilinois
Abe Lincoln
Heitook
Walker
Wort
Apo Parker
Aittle
Mystery Skeleton Said to Be De Soto Relic
Oliver Rigsby of Louisiana recounts finding in 1853 near Port Hudson a hollow tree trunk with a rusted sword a helmet a six foot skeleton a seal ring a bronze crucifix and chain. The narrator suggests the remains may be those of Desoto but does not assert certainty.
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Fernando de Soto
Mississippi
Oliver Rigsby
Louisiana
New Orleans
Port Hudson
Iag
Rigsby
Hurin
Davis
Desoto
Diamond Ring Found by Chance in City Exchange
A man named H R Davies found a two carat diamond ring on the Merchants Exchange steps. He wore it briefly, then learned it did not belong to him. The owner did not appear, and Davies woke up to realize the ring was never his.
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France
Chamber
M. Gregg
Senate
United States
Representative
Saturday Review
H. R. Davies
Merchants’ Exchange
St Louis Globe Democrat
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de Soto
W. N. McKeshen
Fremont
Ind
Fred A. Walter
Philip Michael
Oliver
E. C. Shupp’s
EK. G. Shupp
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