Fight Typhoid Fly Talks and Borax Plans for City Stall
A public health push promotes cleanliness and borax treatment to stop fly breeding in manure and garbage. It outlines experiments showing borax or calcined colemanite kill maggots, prevent fly development, and reduce disease risk, with usage guidelines for manure piles and garbage cans.
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Touil
Sues
Panamae
Dave
Dewith
United States
Department of Agriculture
Ar Meeton
Virginia
New Orleans
Washington
Quality in line and letters mix in a curious scene
The excerpt shows a flamboyant El Grown Fett handling a business card and announcing B O B Episcopal organ blower, with a puzzled Miss Mary and a cluttered reminiscence of Harper's Magazine. A digressive note on water quality follows, advising daily intake and distilled or boiled water.
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Simmonds
U. BN
Episcopal Organ Blower
Harper's Magazine
Make Haste Slowly Explained By Caution In Busy Times
In remarks attributed to the Milwaukee Journal and Brooklyn Eagle, the adage make haste slowly is urged as a guide for work under strain. Hastily written letters and rushed tasks lead to errors waste time and hinder results. The piece argues that steady careful effort yields better outcomes and fewer misunderstandings.
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Milwaukee Journal
Hnate
Sarte
Tom
New Officers Elected and Health Plans Outlined in Ohio
The Obie Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis held its annual meeting in Columbus with Dr. E McCampbell outlining progress in public health nursing and tuberculosis hospitals across Ohio. He noted 35,000 cases and future work to expand public health efforts and hospital services.
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Western Newssaver Union News Service
Columbus
E. #. McCampbell
State Board of Health
Obie Society For the Prevention of Tuberculosis
McCampbell
Oho
Ohio
Olle Synod
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Pauling
Defiance
Synod
Ohio Synod
Pennsylvania Lutheran Home
Eqnid
Petition Drafting by UMW Chief for Gallagher Bill
Judge George B. Okey is retained by the United Mine Workers to draft referendum petitions on the Gallagher coal screen bill. New laws complicate the task and forms must gain secretary of state approval. The report notes antitoxin plant setup at Ohio State University and other varied local items.
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Willis
State Department of Agriculture
College of Agriculture
Ohio State University
Agricultural Experiment Station
Ohio
San Francisco
Palace of Agriculture
Fifth Street
State of
State Fish and Game
John C
Ies
Vantinet
Delphos
Urbara
Leipric
Veahler
van Wert Company
Delfthos
Urbana
Lelpsic
Deshler
Northaventert Ohio Light Company
Tsehe
George B. Okey
United Mine Workers
Gallagher
Atate
Page Hall
State Board of Health
Elevated Playground on Williamsburg Bridge West End
Popular Mechanics notes a 430 foot elevated playground on the Williamsburg Bridge west end in New York City. It provides shade seating and an open air pavilion for dancing and concerts while offering craft instruction for neighborhood children during hot summer days.
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New York
East Side
Williamsburg Bridge
Popular Mechanics
The Road to Unity and the Spirit of Oneness
A devotional essay argues for unity among Christians as a unity of the spirit not mere organizational sameness. It highlights lowliness meekness and long-suffering as key graces, recounts a Quaker organ anecdote, and cites George Mueller’s example of maintaining truth while pursuing harmony in diverse evangelical groups.
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Christ
Lhe
Apostle
Drummond
Walty
Friends’ Meeting
Ohio
Friends
George Mueller
Bristol
England
Mueller
Meeting in Heaven according to Henry Edward Manning
A compact religious meditation on heavenly reunion. Manning reflects that lamented loved ones will appear "in the array of happy spirits" and that God’s love gathers and perfects all pure love. The piece envisions future recognition and deepened affection in the sight of God.
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Jonee
Henry Edward Manning
Woman’s relief from pain with a vegetable compound
A Providence and Nicetown woman report ongoing backache and side pains eased after six bottles of a vegetable supplement. She now sleeps well, eats well, and can work freely, praising the remedy for suffering women.
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Lndelphis
Siemens
Pinkham
HanRy Fisher
Dounton St
Nicetown
Esther Leaves After Plight of Wedding Obstacle
A Southern family employed a skilled cook named Esther who plans to marry soon. She cannot stay past Tuesday, despite the mistress asking for a brief delay. Esther says she will not press the issue with the groom due to not being well acquainted. Celluloid watch crystals gain traction as a substitute for breakable glass. A Washington official notes consular appointments are no longer political and who gets a consulship is easier once the job is secured.
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de Weddin
Esther
Washington
Smith
Power from Food: Grape-Nuts Note Elevates Health
A Western town woman writes of stomach troubles and heartburn, claiming Grape-Nuts helped digestion, weight gain, and strength. She credits Postum Company with the testimonial and urges a few days trial to show food’s facts. There’s a reason, she says, reading The Road to Wellville.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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