Fight House Flies With Borax Banishing Breeding
A health primer urges cleanliness over swatting to curb disease carrying flies. It cites a U S agriculture finding that borax or calcined colemanite prevents breeding in manure and trash, outlines safe application in stables and garbage, and urges public cooperation and school education to reduce typhoid risk.
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Ouse
Swat
Suez
Panama
United States
Department of Agriculture
Ariington Farm
Virginia
New Orleans
Niles
Washington
Experience as a Teacher Lesson in Borrowed Trouble
Lemuel asks why people borrow trouble and Paw answers that many rely on trouble as their sole unsecured loan, a humorous exchange highlighting human tendency to seek risk.
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Lemuel
Paw
Becauas
Archduchess Zita Seen as Future Empress of Austria-Hungary
Archduchess Zita is described as the likely youngest empress if Archduke Karl Tranz Josef ascends the Austrian throne. At 23 on May 9, 1915, she is praised for intelligence and charm, with notable eyes and brown hair. Born at Villa della Planare near Viareggio, she has Tuscan roots and French and English fluency from schooling in England.
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Villa Della Planare
Viareggio
Zita
Monte Segrato
San Tradiano
Lucca
Nicholas I
Italy
France
Isle of Wight
Dan Mac Gillicuddy Named to Ways and Means Committee
Daniel MacGillicuddy of Maine will join the Ways and Means Committee as the new congress session opens. Known as Dan Mac by friends, he is respected for willingness to challenge opponents and his decisive, partisan approach in politics and law. He once tried a case in Auburn’s Androscoggin county courthouse, earning a reputation for sharp judgment and courage.
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Daniel MacGillicuddy
Maine
House
Dan Mac
McGillicuddy
Androscoggin County Court House
Auburn
Lewiston
Pine Tree State
Magnate of Argentina at Pan American conference
Samuel Hale Pearson, a leading Argentine capitalist, attended the Washington Pan American financial conference as Argentina's delegate. Born in Buenos Aires in 1867, educated at Salvador college and New York Polytechnic, he joined Samuel B. Hale & Co. in 1890 and shaped industrial growth. He now directs billions of dollars invested in South America and serves as director of the Bank of the Argentine Republic.
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Washington
Samuel Hale Pearson
South America
Pearson
Buenos Aires
Salvador College
Polytechnical School of
New York
Samuel B. Hale & Co
Mrr
Bank of the
Argentine Republic
Senate
King Albert as a Reporter in Gilded Era Newsrooms
The article recalls Prince Albert of Belgium adopting journalism as a career while traveling incognito in several nations. He worked for a Minneapolis paper earning $15 weekly, faced harsher scrutiny than ordinary reporters when stories failed, and once attempted to gain access to a murder scene in Brooklyn without a press card. A colleague later reveals the prince’s royal status to the officer, highlighting the era’s newsroom hierarchies.
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Albert
Prince of the
France
Austria
Great Britain
America
Scandinavia
Minneapolis
Wwe
Lencepucs
Brooklyn
Prince Albert
The
Law
Prince of
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