Fleas Serve as Plague Agents Warn Health Chief
Dr Walter Wyman the Surgeon General says fleas on rats spread bubonic plague from rat to rat and to humans. He notes San Francisco outbreaks began in May 1907 with one fatal case and more later, urging long term eradication efforts and continued federal aid and immigration and interstate travel controls to curb tuberculosis and plague.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Wyman
Bureau of Public Health and Marine Hospital Sorce
Washington
New York Herald
San Francisco
Wyman
Secretary of the Treasury
Army
Navy
Flavor of Nuts and Sphinx Conceptions
Reading fragments discuss nut flavor varies with oils and roasting, noting almonds contain cyanide compounds and roasted peanuts gain flavor from browned oils. It shifts to praise the Sphinx concept, arguing the creator’s imagination surpasses time, with a view beyond Egypt and a sense of eternity rendered in stone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Strange animal specimen gift in United States history
A note describes a small native Halt creature named cemen solendon, about the size of a muskrat, the only specimen ever brought to the United States. It is a gift from the late Morris K. Josup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solendon
United States
Halt
Morris K. Josup
Not Particular Immigration Remarks Spark Debate
A clipped cultural note mocks selective immigration by foreigners, suggesting even loved infants fail to please both parents when expectations shift. The tongue in cheek line portrays society’s contradictions about belonging and admiration across borders. The brief item preserves a sharp, period voice.
Fragmentary Weather Note From Ancient Streamside Journal
A garbled recount mentions winds and beasts, with fatigue noted among travelers and a vague sense of trout or water activity. Names and places are unreadable, leaving only scattered rhythm of nature and exertion as a fleeting memory.
Witty Fragments From Old Papers On Married Life And Language
A collage of humorous lines from various papers features quips about marriage, nightlife, and manners. Jokes touch on airships and money, poetic poverty, Sunday work, retrenchment, chorus girls, weather, and misheard lines, reflecting light satire and period banter.
Substitutto, Vizier and Sultan Debate Fools List
A tale from the Washington Star describes the Grand Vizier presenting a Hat of fools to the Sultan. The Vizier claims the sultan’s name leads the list, then cites two anonymous Franks who allegedly looted 100,000 sequins from the treasury and vanished. The vizier offers to erase the sultan’s name if they return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ind
Washington Star
Immigrant child and club notes in brief
A terse clipping mentions a new immigrant girl of ten who speaks seven languages, with a quip about lowering the American average. It notes Don’t Worry Club members leaving membership certificates at the office and a saying about how a grown man may not be as young as he believes.
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Pat
Mike
Cleveland
Palmyra
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Philadelphia Ledger
Mlse Knox
Philadelphia Press
Alps
Puck
Liz
Tom
Chicago
Browne
Tomobile
Greene
Tunela
Yoners
Asaault
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Christian Endeavor World
Don't Worry Club
Proclamation summons to appear at White Plains Supreme Court
The sheriff of Westchester issues a proclamation directing all bound to appear at the Supreme Court in White Plains on the sixth day of April 1908 at 10 o clock. The notice, dated March 10, signed by Sheriff Charles M. Lanes, requests attendance of those who have duties before the court or have taken inquests.
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New York
County of
Westchester
Supreme Court
Court House
White
Charles M
Lanes Sheritt
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G. H. Wagner
Paes
Hastings, N. Y
Worthington Farms Dairy
Joseph Coggins
Irvington
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F. H. Morrell
Prop
Inced
Main St
Irvington, N. Y
M.J. Tynan
Sweet Orr
Upper Main Street
Irvington, N.Y
H. H. Cannon
Dr. Wyman
Egypt
Robert Hichens
Cemen Solendon
Mexican Herald
Filegende Blaetter
Murone
Greenburgh
Tarrytown
N. Y
Robert Dashwood
G. Friberg
Isr
Irving
New
Standard Medical Society
Baltimore
Prion
Ruaphrtew
Ncura
Ste
Chas. A. Adams
Westchester County
New York Telephone Company
Bway & Central Ave
Tarrstows
White House
St Sevnton
J. R. Scales
Ssiar Ganietet
Sanmaize
Victor Headquarters
Main Street
F. Nmn
Morrell
Irvington, N. Ys
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