Magic of surgical science transforms wounded soldiers
A London report praises wartime advances in conservative surgery at major military hospitals. It highlights nerve and bone reconstructions, limb salvages, and masks by Lieut. Derwent Wood, plus rapid sepsis treatment using oxygen therapy, with patients recovering quickly and returning to life after injury.
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London
Alfred Keogh
Army Medical Service
Herbert Hospital
Shooter's Hill
Simpson
Roman
Lieut
Derwent Wood
Edison Takes Vacation in Adirondacks With Burroughs
Thomas A. Edison abandons science for a weeks long trip to the Adirondacks. He travels with H. S. Firestone of Akron and naturalist John Burroughs and the photo shows him preparing to depart for the mountains.
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Thomas Aa. Edison
Adirondacks
Nature
H. S. Firestone
Akron
John Burroughs
Mr. Edison
Second Thoughts and a Changing Love in Sudbury
In Sudbury a proposed match faces heartbreak after Tom Haynes, a young lawyer, is crippled in a riding accident chasing fiancée Mabel Vickers. Nora, Mabel’s sister, stands by Tom and arranges treatment with Dr Tremayne, leading to Tom’s recovery and a new bond with Nora as Mabel watches.
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Sudbury
Tom Haynes
Mabel Vickers
Mabel
Tom
Close Hill Gap
Squires
Nora
Texas experiment farm report offers cotton corn rotation advice
The 1915 San Antonio experiment farm report from the U S Department of Agriculture recommends disking corn stubble for cotton when feasible and favors fall disking over spring plowing. It notes biennial cropping lowers yields for corn and cotton, with oats sometimes higher, and highlights root rot as a key issue in cotton, reduced in rotations with corn or oats. It also discusses corn variety planting mixes and the potential of cowpeas between wide-spaced rows, plus flax as a fall-sown, supplementary cash crop with further testing needed.
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Washington, D. C
San Antonio Experiment Farm
United States Department of Agriculture
Texas
San Antonio
Laguna
Man regains memory after 13 years in Kokomo tale
Milton Simmons of Kokomo Indiana returns to his Syracuse mother Cecelia Simmons after memory loss from a 60 foot fall during the Iroquois fire in Chicago. He later lived in Tipton and Kokomo before an operation last winter restored memories of his family and past life.
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Indiana
Chicago
Binghamton
N. Y
Milton Simmons
Kokomo
Ind
Cecelia Simmons
Syracuse
Simmons
Tipton
Will Not Get Her Waist Due to War Rules
Fort Wayne reports Mrs. Brownie Simmons of Chicago visiting Fremont relatives will not receive her yearly waist from England because war regulations bar its shipment. Customs officers say sending it would necessitate importing another waist. Her mother writes she must spend a day weekly wheeling wounded or sick soldiers for an airing.
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Queen Alexandra Hospital
Millbank
England
Francis Farmer
Fort Wayne
Ind
Brownie Simmons
Chicago
Fremont
Indian visitor dies after drinking in open saloon days
A northern Michigan Indian in a wide open county was served excessive liquor by saloonkeepers. He was found dead three miles from town, strangled by liquor use. A saloon keeper stands trial amid testimony about the distance of the body and the claim no blame if death came far from the tavern.
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Michigan
Emmet
Young Bobbie Dreams of a Family Business Life
A visitor asks what the young boy will do when grown. He declares he will be a businessman like his father, starting with trains and offices, lighting cigars, taking lunch, socializing with a big man, and finally returning home exhausted to read the paper and blame the government.
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Bobbie
Robert
Wilson urges expansion of American commerce at grain dealers event
President Wilson spoke to 3,800 attendees at the National Grain Dealers Convention in Baltimore. He discussed boosting trade via the tariff commission the trade commission the federal reserve act the shipping bill and related measures to usher in a new era for U S business and to clarify liberties and restrictions in trade.
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Wilson
Baltimore
Grain Dealers
New Tariff Commission
The
Trade Commission
Federal Reserve Act
Warning to Oyster Dealers Over Adulterated Shipments
Washington department of agriculture issued a warning to dealers against interstate shipment of polluted oysters or those soaked to increase bulk. Prosecutions will be pressed against violators of the adulteration law.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Bermuda Storm Sweeps Across Hamilton
Bermuda was swept by a severe storm Saturday causing general damage throughout the colony in Hamilton.
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Bermuda
Hamilton
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RED Cross
Edison
Merwin James, Jr
Tremayne
Brentwood
Dad
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