Costa Rica the Garden Spot of Central America
An editor's travelogue describes Costa Rica as a vast garden with coffee and fruit, notes American influence via railroads and electricity, and highlights San Jose life from a municipal wash tub to a grand theatre. The writer contrasts ignorance abroad with local wonders while hinting at future canal-driven development.
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Plainfield
New Jersey
Costa Rica
Panama Canal Zone
Porto Rico
Central America
United Fruit Company
Prsident
The
Atlantic Fruit Co
Tropics
San Jose
Europe
Congressional Library
Milan
Aheve
Colon
New York State
Havana
Ilmet
Buffalo
Cleveland
Chicago
Tornado kills seven in Iowa towns. heavy damage towns damaged
A late Friday tornado swept northwestern Iowa killing seven and injuring about a dozen. Sanborn and Hospers bore the brunt with houses wrecked, elevators and a water tower swept away, and the towns largely leveled. Damages reach about $150,000 with crops and rural properties uncertain.
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Iowa
Sanborn
Archer
John Bislanw
Hospers
James Allen
B. L. Fink
PB. W. Vetume
Patrick Doherty
J. B. Long
G. W. Bonner
Sheldon
Wallace Wood
M. G. Finch
Rogenbom
Neth Hooweterp
Alton
Radium Doctor Discusses Cancer and Radium Risks
Dr Walter Lazaruz Barrow reports at a medical meeting that radium used in cancer treatment may itself cause cancer in the human body. He cites animal cell experiments and argues cancer is disordered cell growth, suggesting caution and further study.
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Barlow
Radium
London
Walter
Lazaruz-Barlow
Hog Cholera Death Toll Tops Two Million Hogs in Iowa
Losses from hog cholera in Iowa in 1913 surpass two million hogs across eighty-six counties by May 26. With 8.72 million hogs on farms at the start of the year, the estimated value of losses nears 22.05 million dollars. Plymouth and Lyon counties report the heaviest declines, each exceeding 60 percent of local herds.
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Iowa
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Extension Department
Towns State Agricultural College
Plymouth County
Lyon County
Jury Awards Miss Georgia Jay $20,000 in Breach Suit
A Chicago circuit court jury awarded Miss Georgia Jay $20,000 against Homer Rodeheaver choirmaster for Billy Sunday for breach of promise to marry. Jay testified they met in Tow a or Iowa and dated with plans for marriage before Rodeheaver declined, claiming it would harm his career. The case featured taxi rides long walks and heated defense by her attorney calling Rodeheaver a king of mashers.
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Georgia Jay
Homer Rodeheaver
Billy
Chicago
Miss Jay
Rodeheaver
Towa
Hell
Dows oils streets as towns join the effort
Under street commissioner J A Little about 8000 gallons of crude oil were applied this week to Dows business streets Ellsworth Garfield and Tracy. Two more oil cars are ordered, a second 7000 gallon car due, with sand spread free. Cost about 35.09 per thousand gallons funded by public subscription. Dows and neighboring Tama Wellsburg Dysart follow suit in oiling streets for dustless, mudless surfaces.
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J. A. Little
Dows Streets
Ellsworth Street
Garfield Street
Hahn's
Tracy Street
West Elsworth Street
North Tracy
Dows
Tama
Wellsburg
Dysart
Convicts Worked On Public Roads May Be Expanded
The Illinois experiment with working convicts on public roads shows repeated success and may broaden. It argues voluntary participation benefits the community without harming honest labor, avoids selling goods outside prison, and could improve national highway quality to world standards.
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Illinois
America
Schumann Heink to Attend Bayreuth Festival Amid Divorce Suit
Madame Schumann Heink, suing her husband William Rapp dx for divorce, faces a choice to attend the Wagnerian festival in Bayreuth Germany on June 15 or leave the case to her attorneys and depart promptly.
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Schumann Heink
Madame Schumann-Heink
William Rapp dx
Bayreuth
Germany
Soul weighing claim shocks Boston audience
Dr. Duncan McDougall of Haverhill reports weighing a dying tuberculosis patient to test if the soul has weight. Over 3 hours 40 minutes the beam recorded a drop of three quarters of an ounce at death, supporting a theory that life’s ether may accompany the earth.
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Boston
Duncan McDougall
Haverhill
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Panama
Isthmus
Loyot
Pompeii
Acropolis
United States
Orient
Graettinger
New York
William Rapp
Catherine E. Dean
Elizabeth Hauk
Rapp
Dean
Mr. Rapp
Pluto
Mrss
Lillian Schmidt
Mark Harrison
Emmetsburg
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