Mexico to Extend Railroads Nationwide With Key Links
Mexico City April 7 The department of communications with state governments moves to extend rail lines from Santa Lucrecia Tehuantepec to Merida Yucatan linking Juarez on the border to Merida. A second line will run east to west from Tampico to San Blas connecting Aguas Calientes Zacatecas and more. The Southern Pacific must resume Compostela Guadalajara work or lose its concession. The government pledges aid and expediting supplies for the project.
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Mexico City
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Department of Communications and Public Works
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Tehuantepec
Merida
Yucatan
Giudad Juarez
San Juan Bautista
Tabasco
Camp
Department of Communications
Southern Pacific Company
Seagulls Brought Inland Help French Gardens
In Paris the recent cold snap pushed many seagulls inland. The birds have had their wings clipped and now aid gardeners by destroying worms and grubs in French gardens.
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Paris
France
No More Blankets for Soldiers in British Prisons
London reports British military authorities ban the despatch of blankets to prisoners in Germany for military reasons. Tooth paste remains permissible.
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London
Germany
Educated Brain Refused Special Exemption Debate
A Chicago professor argues that an educated mind should not be immune from service. He questions whether this stance will excuse him from military duty and challenges exemption ideas.
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Chicago
New American Journal Advances Tuberculosis Knowledge
An article reviews the launch of The American Review of Tuberculosis, highlighting the shift from mass education to a technical publication. It notes progress since 1905 in reducing TB deaths through sanatoria, clinics, visiting nurses, and open-air schools, with a forecast of further impact from disseminating clinical experience. Women drive mail vans in London.
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American Review of Tuberculosis
Trudeau
Chevrolet GIVES HINTS FOR The PROPER CARE OF CHICKENS
Washington advises family poultry keepers to favor general purpose breeds like Plymouth Rocks Wyandottes Rhode Island Reds and Orpingtons for home use. These birds lay and make good table fowl and can hatch and brood their own eggs reducing incubation costs.
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Washington
Plymouth
Feeding hens with grain and mash substitutions
The guide describes feeding about one quart of mixed grain daily to 12 Plymouth Rock hens or 14 Leghorns with an equal weight of mash. It notes waste table products can replace dry mash as a moist mash and that meat-rich scraps substitute for beef scrap, while meat-poor scraps are added to the dry mash.
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Plymouth Rock
Too Much Sense to Grow Up Reads Detective Tales
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch column notes that literary and business minds enjoy detective stories, listing works such as Hard Cash and Moonstone in a public library list. It argues brainy people retain youthful enthusiasm for mystery and may seek relief after heavy tasks with a thriller opening line featuring a woman's scream.
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Remus
United States
Washington University
Public Library
Charles Reade
Wilkie Collins
Moonstone
Thomas W. Hanshew
A Good Old Fashioned Physic Promoted by Mann Drug Co
An advertisement for Foley Cathartic Tablets touts a wholesome physic that cleanses the bowels and tones the liver. It claims relief for indigestion biliousness bad breath bloating gas or constipation without gripping or nausea and urges stout persons to try the product from Mann Drug Co.
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Mann
Southern Railway Schedule for Carolina and Yadkin River R R Co
Train times in the schedule indicate expected arrivals and departures at listed stations but times are not guaranteed and subject to change without notice.
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Carolina & Yadkin River
R.r.co
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