Canning Process Exposition Draws New York Interest
Special to The Sun New York February 18 readers learn of the Missouri club backed canned meat expo in Chicago May 1 and a fall New York stop. The piece highlights packers defending cleanliness and the public lesson against impurity fears amid Rockefeller and Carnegie donations to higher education. It also notes airship plans from Fort George to Coney Island and Brown University alumni dinner with governors and Rockefeller Jr. in attendance.
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New York
Metropolis
Missouri Club
Chicago
East
Middle West
W. H. P. Faunce
Brown University
Providence
Hughes
Higgins
Rhode Island
Stokes
New Jersey
Everett Colby
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
General Educational Board
Brown
Man Rich Enough to Quit Business at 47
Edward M. Higgins broker and former Armour Grain vice president retires from business at 47, saying he has made enough money. He plans a yearlong Europe trip with his wife, then more travel, aided by his charitable focus on helping children. Higgins began as a broker in 1881 and rose to first vice president of Armour Grain before retiring this month.
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Chicago
Edward M. Higgins
Armour Grain Company
Board of Trade
Bird Center
Europe
Mr. Higgins
Rockefeller
Higgins
Kenmoreave
Armour & Co
George Marcy
Joe Keating
Jim Goodrich
Harry Starr
Jim Hemenway
Kealing
Goodrich
Starr
Hemenway
Hanly's Growing Power Threatens Reforms In Indiana
A veteran observer laments Gov. Hanly's reform drive being sabotaged by close allies. The piece questions advisers, party loyalties, and whether Hanly’s backers will support or undermine his program. It predicts a stalled session and possible Democratic gains if reforms falter.
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Hanly
Indiana
Governors Honored With Songs At Banquet Longacre
At a banquet, each governor received a special song in his honor. Gov Hughes praised Brown as fitting to make governors, noting the college’s dominance over students and graduates. The key question shifted from wartime reserves to finding honest men for peacetime leadership.
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Gov. Hughes
Brown
Longacre
Mummies for Firewood
The Buffalo News argues against preserving ancient mummies for future use, suggesting it would offend the dead and recalling they intended to rest. The piece questions their display in museums and for tea boiling, urging that souls and bodies belong together in tombs.
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The
Buffalo News
Women Grow Larger Than Ancestors in Gowns
A Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph note describes an afternoon tea where women tried on 17th and 18th century gowns. All but one guest, a slim 16 year old, could not fit the antique dresses, trains becoming ankle length on the wearers. The artist hosting the costume display remarks none of his models could wear them.
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Pittsburg
Naming a Member and the Power of Names
The piece discusses the ancient belief in the mystic link between a person’s name and character. It notes tales like Rumpelstiltskin and suggests that modern naming of UK MPs may be a survival of this belief, possibly introduced by Norse influence.
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House of Commons
England
Cuticura Remedies Said to Cure Longstanding Skin Flare
A Bay City Michigan mother recalls a daughter’s persistent skin breakout starting in infancy and flaring after age fifteen. After trying numerous salves with no relief, a specialist treatment worsened symptoms until Cuticura Remedies were used. Now clear, she endorses the products.
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M. Curley
Sixteenth St
Bay City
Mich
Cuticura Remedies Heal Child’s Eczema on Face
A Canton Minnesota reader reports two years of facial eczema in a girl cleared after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. Since the cure the family praises the remedies, noting no sores have reappeared in six years.
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Cuticura
W. H. Kimball
Canton, Minn
Man Bequeaths Money to Pigs in Odd Will
A Nova Scotia man named Robert MacDonald left an $8,000 estate to two pigs and their keeper, with the house sold to fund feeding and care. The will, drafted after relatives allegedly fawned on him, names an executor and outlines payments, penalties, and future charity allocations as the herd grows, while noting veterinary care and possible litter profits.
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Robert MacDonald
MacDonald
Giant Umbrella Tree Shades His House
Clovis California February 18 This city grows the largest umbrella tree in the United States on the farm of John Cadwallader planted in 1890. It rose rapidly and by 1980 reached 30 feet tall with a bushy top spanning 80 feet in circumference.
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Clovis
Cal
United States
Jno. Cadwallader
Farm Overrun by Cats on New Jersey Cat Farm
Dr. Joseph Ward of Newton New Jersey kept cats in every part of his property to scare away rabbits that ruined his strawberry beds under New Jersey game laws. He gathered many cats to drive off the rabbits, leaving no room for both on the farm. He now searches farm magazines for a cat exterminator recipe.
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Joseph Ward
Newton
N. J
Dr. Ward
New York Herald
New Jersey
Oldest Brockton Woman Cherished as Jolly Matron
Mrs. Mary S Barnby is 108 years old and famed as the jolliest woman in Brockton. She enjoys fun with youngsters and recalling corn husking bees from youth. She has had two children, forty two grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
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Mary Sbarnby
Brockton
Rochester Milk Crusade Promotes Rigorous Dairy Inspections
An editorial from Rochester argues pasteurization fails to curb disease and urges strict dairy inspections and tuberculin testing. It cites Rochester’s infant mortality drop from municipal milk stations and condemns owners’ negligence as a major disease source, advocating state authority for dairy access and sanitation standards.
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Rochester
N. Y
Chicago
Rochester’s Record On Child Mortality Linked To Milk Campaign
A ten year comparison shows mortality among children under one year and ages one to five before and after a campaign for wholesome milk. The figures indicate 4,583 and 2,426 deaths in the after period.
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Rochester
Milk Contamination Tied to Scarlet Fever In Chicago
Chicago suffers a severe scarlet fever outbreak blamed on impure milk. Physicians report almost every milk source is contaminated. The era cites additional germs linked to milk causing various infections.
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Chicago
Old Oaken Bucket Remains in Childhood Reverie
The verse recalls a peaceful yard and a father, a calf, a dignified cat, and boyhood friends. It cherishes the moss-covered iron-bound bucket hanging in the well as a symbol of simple childhood joys and memories.
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