Is It Murder to Aid Self Killing in New Jersey
New York January 28 claim that helping a death by one’s own action is not a crime in New Jersey is raised by counsel for the Ward law sisters awaiting trial for causing the death of Ocey W. M. Snead the last Orange bath tub victim. A demurrer to the indictment was filed and prepared for argument before the supreme court.
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New York
New Jersey
Wardlaw
Ocey W.M. Snead
Supreme Court
Caroline B. Martin
Mary Sneed
Virginia ‘Wardlaw
Why Fertilizers Often Fail to Give Results
Farmers must drain soggy soils before fertilization will work. Dry dead soils lack humus and moisture to dissolve nutrients, causing leaching in wet weather. Proper soil health, drainage, and balanced nutrients are essential for fertilizers to be effective in Southern farms.
Unclear Notice on Offer and Testimonial Promotions
Fragmentary advertisement appears to offer a hundred dollars toward something with a Toledo address and mentions testimonials and a business transaction. The garbled text includes price cues and references to a family named Weir and a promotional scheme, with no clear product or dates.
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Sorof
Toledo
Undersnate
Transac Romig Tenet
Des Weir
Widow of Bayonne Councilman Dies After Child Loss
Mrs Mary Gill wife of Councilman Andrew Gill of Bayonne New Jersey died after prolonged illness following the deaths of both her four year old sons. Andrew died a year earlier of spinal meningitis and Lucius died exactly one year later of the same disease. The family described her decline as a broken heart after the losses.
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Mary Gill
Andrew Gill
Bayonne
N. J
Andrew
Lucius
Gill
Eaven
What Fertilizers Are
A Raleigh North Carolina Progressive Farmer and Gazette excerpt explains that fertilizers are plant food, not magic soil medicine. It compares applying nitrates, phosphates, stable manure, or guano to feeding livestock, arguing nutrients feed crops just as feed nourishes animals.
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Raliegh
N. C
Progressive Farmer and Gazette
Aiken Seeks Dry Capital for Washington
Representative Aiken of South Carolina introduces a House bill to make Washington District of Columbia dry. He calls for no liquor sales or giveaways within the District, not even in clubs, effectively proposing to swamp the capital with prohibition.
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Washington
Aiken
South Carolina
United States
District of Columbia
House of Representatives
Druggists Pact Causes Childs Death in Provo Utah
In Provo Utah on January 28 the local druggists agreed to a sixty day liquor ban, hindering T. J. Smith from obtaining whiskey or brandy deemed essential by a physician to save his two year old son. The child died yesterday from pneumonia after the prescription was refused. the stance was endorsed by the City Council president.
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Provo
Utah
T. J. Smith
Smith
Saloon Man cashes Carrie Nation's checks
Carrie Nation the saloon smasher arrived in Washington and wrecked the Union Station bar. She was fined in police court and paid her attorney Matthew E. O'Brien with a check that was cashed by a friend and an accommodated saloon keeper. Now a seventh street saloon poster reproduces the check with the caption We cash Carrie Nation's checks.
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Washington
Carrie Nation
Union Station
Matthew E. O'Brien
Catarrh Treatment Promise From Rexall Store
An advertorial promises free medicine if Rexall Mucu Tone fails to help catarrh in women. It claims catarrh is a blood issue needing internal care plus local treatment, touts the remedy’s blood purification and mucous tissue healing effects, and notes availability only at Georgetown Drug Company and The Rexall Store.
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Georgetown
Rexall
Georgetown Drug Company
Prohibition Law Unlikely in State Senate Says Ritter Appert
Columbia January 23 A legislative letter from Ritter Ap pelt state senator from Clarendon county notes that a state wide prohibition bill is unlikely this session unless the Senate changes. He reports at least 23 will not vote for a state wide measure, some Prohibitionists among them, who backed the last compromise but oppose it now. He says these men will campaign for a statewide bill next summer.
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Ing
Ritter Appelt
Clarendon County
Senate
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Dreath
Capital
Childs
Columbia
Cardui
Octava
Laura Lawrence
Drennon Springs
Cardus
Chattanooga Medicine Co
Chattanooga
Tem
Southern Mercantile Co
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