West leads in smoke abatement efforts in cities
The West shows greater progress than the East in reducing smoke nuisances. St Paul adopted health department action four years ago, asking unions if smoke prevention can occur without harming industry, and both steam unions answered affirmatively. Milwa kee reports mixed enforcement yet overall improvement, with a notable shift to smoke consuming devices and fuel savings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Department of Health
Milwaukee
Hollis Godfrey
Atlantic
Common Council
Varied Memo: Travel Aid Lincoln Highway and Historic Notes
A newspaper column reflects on human kindness aboard a delayed ship and the duty of rail and ship lines to care for stranded travelers. It discusses Lincoln Highway from Washington to Gettysburg, Milton’s birthday celebrations, autograph sales, and a West Africa trade label incident. It notes Boxer indemnity funds and the unrevealed original draft of the Declaration of Independence likely to stay private until 1928.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoboken
Hartford Courant
Dota
Conrant
Beet Sugar Prospects In England High Sugar Beets Show Promise
British and Irish trials report beets in England Wales and Ireland reaching 16 percent sugar, higher than 30 years ago. Experts note quality gains from selection and cultivation, but warn that a profitable commercial sugar venture still hinges on production costs and factory economics.
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England
Wales
Ireland
Essex
United States
Busy New York Health Lab Analyzes Thousands of Substances
The New York Sun notes that the health board lab analyses about 10,000 items yearly. The department handles milk and water analyses as its main work, with only 25 to 30 cases pending at year end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Health
New York Sun
Division of Laboratories
Twain’s Billiards Lesson Leaves Twain In Stiff Mood
Spectators at a New York billiards tournament heard Mark Twain joke about how the game corrupted his temperament. He recounted a Virginia City incident where a left handed opponent tricked him, leaving Twain with a wary lesson on fair play and a bruised pride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Twain
New York
Virginia City
Cowboy Preacher Brings Prodding Gospel to Seattle Mission
Samuel Bettes, known as the Cowboy Preacher, delivered a blunt sermon at the Volunteers of America mission in Seattle. He roped and roasted various denominations with caustic humor, warned against backsliding, and urged unorthodox religious views while pacing the platform in a storm of rhetoric. Bettes, a former Texas cattlehand, planned to stay in Seattle for another week after a week-long visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
Volunteers of America
Samuel
Bettes
Texas
Presbyterian Church
Curiosity Box
United States
Society Man Drummer Charms Municpal Band Crowds
Philadelphia society figure George Gilpin Jr, grandson of a former mayor, has been secretly playing drums cymbals and triangle with the Municipal band in public squares. He pursued music for pleasure and to aid summer concerts, hoping to lead his own orchestra someday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
George Gilpin, Jr
Gilpin
Atlantic City
Washington Gilpin
de Lancey Place
John C
Charles Gilpin
Frederica Berwind
Robert Strawbridge
Maronesa Brooklin von Brocklinson
Dont Kill the Hawk May Break Food Chain, Says Article
An essay in Country Life in America argues that killing hawks upsets nature by allowing field mice to multiply and prey on young hens, while mice also threaten crops and bees. The piece warns that removing hawks disturbs balance and harms Clover crops.
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America
Lioness and the Mouse a Philadelphia Pregs fragment
The fragment shows a dialogue about a marriage plan with Martha Strong and Mr. Timid. A cited line suggests Martha asked someone to be her heat woman, implying a misheard or satirical bridesmaid invitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tesa
Martha
Jess
Philadelphia
Rover the dog walks with a wooden leg in Gardner Mass
Frank S Learned’s dog Rover lost a left forefoot when a mower cut it. After a veterinarian fitted a wooden leg in a leather harness, Rover thrives and accompanies Learned’s daughter to relief corps meetings, acting as her devoted assistant conductor.
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Rover
Frank S. Learned
Mr. Learned
Relief Corps
The Horn Fly Threatens Dairy Cattle and Remedies
The horn fly, a European pest in North America since 1877, irritates cattle causing reduced flesh and milk. It rests around horns and base of the tail, breeds rapidly in summer, and can be controlled by grease or soap-emulsion mixtures, train oil with additives, axle grease, or kerosene emulsion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New Jersey
Bulletin 62
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
Insect Life
Canada
Oshawa
Ont
America
Messrs
Riley and
Howard
Virginia
Hoard
Dashyman
A Lively Dead Soldier of the Sixth Massachusetts
Thomas E. Ballard a Civil War pensioner living in Boston’s South End is remembered as alive after the roster listed him as dead since 1862. He fled Libby prison then rejoined the Eleventh Infantry, later learning his body was miscounted and his memory famed as the living dead.
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Sixth Massachusetts
Thomas E. Ballard
South End
Boston
Boston Globe
Gaine’s Mill
Savages Station
McClellan
Thomas
Maxwell
Ballard
Richmond
E. M. Morse
Charlestown
West Newton Street
Gaine
Gettysburg
Carriera
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Goshen Daily Democrat
JOS
Goshen
Indiana
Washington
Troy
N. Y
Lincoln
John Milton
London
West Africa
China
New York Health Board
Twain
Samuel S. Bettes
Gardner, Mass
Mr. Morse
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