Conquering Yellow Fever and the Maya Extinction
A sweeping historical recap links the Mayan demise to Yellow fever and the later conquest of the disease. It credits General Gorgas with Havana sanitation work and notes subsequent Cuban and Panamanian controls. The piece may touch on rumors of workers heading to Mr. Coolidge, with a Swampscott reference and overarching tone of public health progress.
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Central America
Rockefeller Foundation
Gorgas
Havana
Army Commission
Cuba
Panama
Peru
The Next Tax Cut Promises Narrower Tax Take
The 69th Congress plans to address the income tax as more taxpayers file higher net incomes while tax rate cuts reduce both the average individual tax and total revenue. In 1923, 6,787,180 returns showed a total net income of 21.34 billion and taxes of 861.06 million. average net income was 3,143.46 and tax 126.86 at 4.04 percent. In 1924, returns rose to 7,698,321, about 7 percent of the population, with net income totaling 26.54 billion.
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Ae Ee
Steel Trade
Demain
Atlemata
Income tax debate and possible reductions in Congress
Treasury figures show rising net income and falling tax per person as more than 8 million returns are filed and a 1926 trend suggests higher incomes but lower tax totals. The next cut faces a split verdict in Congress with Mellon pushing surtax relief while many voters favor broader normal tax reductions. London notes beards returning as a cultural aside.
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Treasury Department
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
You Used to Dance
A wife questions her husband about the loss of youth and dance. The passage reflects on how youth fades into responsibility and work, while the lingering memory of youthful happiness and the pressure to achieve in time haunt or inspire adults. It contrasts carefree nights with the struggle to live up to early life dreams.
Infant Mortality Drops Boosts Baby Survival Prospects
National campaign fights infant deaths with data from 33 states and the District of Columbia. 1924 saw 72 deaths per 1000 live births in 629 cities, a decline from 1923, with 1925 likely lower. Medical groups and health authorities credit steady efforts and citizen cooperation.
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United States
District of Columbia
American Child Health Association
Movement to sponsor world narcotic education conference
The article reports Rep Walter T Linberger plans to push a bill for a world conference on narcotic education to be held in Philadelphia next June. It cites support from the International Narcotic Education Association and calls for global government involvement coordinated with the League of Nations.
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Washington
Walter T. Linberger
North California
Philadelphia
Lineberger
Los Angeles
Heart Committee
Coolidge
Linberger
Edvcation
United States
Congress
California
Get Ling
Congressional Record
Urgent call for nationwide drug education to curb heroin use
Captain Hobson warns of organized drug exploitation targeting youth and urges immediate, widely implemented education as the best long term defense. Experts question cure rates for addicts while stressing that most users begin from ignorance. Judge McAdoo cites that 98 percent of addicts before him were under 10, and New York figures suggest tens of thousands of underworld heroin users.
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International Narcotic Educaton Association
Richmond PL Hodson
Howard A. Kelly
Johns Hopkins
Harvey W. Wiley
Washington
Carleton Simon
Polce
New York
Hobson
Treasury Department
Treasury
Anias ©. Squire
Sing Sing
John W. H. Crim
United States
Atlanta
Leavenworth
McNeil Island
Simon
America
Fife
McAdoo
New York City
Annates
Mountain temblors alarm Hash Nest campers in Sixteen Mile canyon
Rusty Mathews and Conductor Baldy Rogers camped at Hash Nest when a six lid stove pan jumped as fish fried. Baldy leaped back as the pan moved and the ground trembled. Earthquakes shook the mountain, vegetation bent, and tracks tumbled for hours after the quake ceased.
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Rusty Mathews
Baldy Rogers
Hash Nest
Sixteen Mile Canyon
Baldy
Rusty
Harlowton Times
Increased Activity in Trade Foreseen Across Markets
New York July 5 The first half of the year closed with markets in a pause as investors awaited signs of improved trade. Dividends totaling nearly 438 million dollars supported investor confidence while call loans rose to 6 percent. California earthquake fears tempered sentiment but later faded as conditions stabilized.
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New York
Associated Press
Wall Street
California
Wesk
Answers to Questions from a 1920s column
A reader quiz covers Earl Sande's birth in 1899 at Groton South Dakota and asks about aviation counts, avocado cultivation in California, Rogers Hornsby’s fifth straight batting title, Wendover Cutoff in the Great Salt Lake Desert, cottage cheese making steps, Carnegie insurance for teachers, Angela Morgan's poem, the origin of importing African slaves, and related historical notes.
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Ithe United
Earl Sande
Jacke
Earlf
Sande
Groton
South Dakota
Recah Wsaoitation
Ates
California
Vinanda
United States
Rogers Hornsby
H. Mf. C
National League
St. Louis
Hang Wagner
Pittsburg
Great Salt Lake Desert
Salt Lake City
Nevada Line
Salt Desert
Carnegie Insurance
Teachers’ Insurance
Anl Annuity Esanciation of America
New York
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of
M. CR A
Angela Morgan
Americas
New World
Santo Domings
Haiti
Las Caras
West Indies
O. RB
Change in tourist trade ends subdevelopment sales boom
The writer notes a shift from days of constant subdivision marketing and tour buses to now, with few big excursion wagons heading to tracts. Rubberneck wagons remain to beaches and Hollywood, but the aggressive selling schemes have faded, making travel nicer for visitors.
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Hollywood
Lewistown
Democrat-New
Bond market quiets as mid-winter trade slows
Subscriptions were the rule for Lawton as mid-Amer month approached. Trading volume contracted, yet high prices for all bonds, especially United States government obligations, kept prices at new high records due to persistent buying power.
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California
United States
Treasury
Lawton
Mid-Ammer
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