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Gerah G. Treadwell
James T. Ray
A. W. Treadwell
Fred L. Rentz
Treas
Man
Fred W. Gallant
New Castle
Open Air Schools: Chicago's Summer TB Experiment
Chicago plans open air schools for tuberculosis children this summer in tents with meals clothing and transportation funded by city taxes. Health nurses and medical care will accompany education and recreation in the countryside to cure children and perhaps save lives at an estimated three dollars weekly per child.
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Chicago
Educational Department
Health Department
Swat the Rat Campaigns and Plague Link Across Nations
The Harrisburg Telegraph notes rising efforts worldwide to exterminate rats and prevent plague. It cites global costs from rats totaling about 1 billion dollars yearly and US damages around 100 million, with rats carriers of bubonic plague and shipborne spread. fleas on Pacific coast squirrels also pose risks.
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Harrisburg Telegraph
United States
Abraham
Pacific
Port of New York Tightens Quarantine Over Plague Fears
Five deaths reported from Puerta de Tierra Puerto Rico prompt New York authorities to tighten port controls. From July 1 ships arriving from Porto Rico Trinidad South America Africa Asia and European Turkey must show a fumigation certificate or undergo fumigation by New York health officers before docking.
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Puerta de Tierra Porto Rico
New York
Porto Rico
Trinidad
South America
Africa
Asia
European
Turkey
A Presidential Elector’s Right Questioned
The piece debates whether electors may legally and morally refuse to vote for their party’s nominee. It notes Dana’s view that electors owe allegiance to the designated candidate, not personal judgment, and asks who an elector would owe fidelity to if opposing a disliked convention choice.
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Richard Henry Dana
Chicago
Pepper plants mistaken for ragweed at East Side store
An amateur gardener buys a dozen pepper plants from a new store clerk who misidentifies them. A skeptical daughter and a local neighbor confirm the mix up as ragweed growing in the same box used for pepper plants.
Hints and Dints The Belle of the Ball
A satire of social scenes and political chatter features Ysobel’s baseball talk and city life quips. The piece mentions Bryan and Baltimore, a stuffed peacock gift, and local gossip about conventions and social conduct in Chicago and New Castle.
June Forecast Highlights Health and Social Prospects
The reading suggests health outcomes are important for you and family, with anxiety noted for the year ahead. Those born on this day may have agreeable dispositions and make many friends but be improvident in spending.
Drunken Park Orgy Draws Criticism In New Castle
In New Castle a dozen loafers held a public drunken scene in the Diamond on a Saturday afternoon. They took four park benches, passed around two quarts of whiskey, and caused disorder for about 30 minutes while scores of spectators, including women and children, watched. A First ward business man condemned the lack of police presence and the vulgar conduct on the public square.
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New Castle
Diamond
First Ward
Glider Project Realized by YMCA Winter Aviation Class
Throughout winter a YMCA aviation class built a fine glider model. The boys worked faithfully and by spring completed their craft, showcasing effort and skill in practical flight design.
Boy Aviator Crashes During Flight on Grant Street
A boy tried an early aviation glide on Grant Street. The machine bucked and threw him to the ground, destroying the craft. He rose unharmed, but the sequence cooled enthusiasm for the aviation class and its air conquest efforts.
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Grant Street
Country knowledge stuns girl as farmer explains butter milker
A North hill girl spent Sunday with a farmer near Harlansburg. Asked which cow provides butter milk, she learns the answer is a nanny goat the farmer points out, calling her the butter milker.
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North Hill
Harlansburg
Local couple decorates lamp stand for wedding month
A couple marked brides month by decorating the iron lamp stand at Mercer and Washington streets yesterday. A bystander stood nearby as they carried out the light display along the curb.
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Mercer
Washington Streets
Political quips and social foibles in a lively season
The column humorously riffs on civil service protections, party formations, and political vanity. It notes Rockefeller reducing his private cars, jokes about Columbus, and playfully criticizes wedding molesters while lampooning reformers, unions, and social mores across towns like New Castle and Kittanning.
Sunday tells Pittsburg women hats trample church giving
Billy Sunday addressed a Pittsburgh audience last Sunday noting women wore hats costing more than a year of church contributions. He criticized spending on fashion and urged generosity.
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Billy
Pittsburg
Bill
Bridal carriage incident at the station scene
A carriage bearing a bride and groom sped toward the station when a sprig of orange blossoms fell from the cab. The groom picked it up, placed it in a lamp post, and said they might need it again, leaving the sprig fresh after last night’s rain.
Pittsburg Man Seeks Beer in New Castle Locale
A Pittsburg man who moved to New Castle wandered seeking a beer. He was told the nearest oasis was Lowellville, a place he had never visited, and a local native replied that the only place in Lowellville where liquor is not sold is the livery stable across the street.
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Pittsburg
New Castle
Lowellville
Mahoning Valley
Local Man Describes Heightened Senses After Injury
A local man claimed that losing one sense sharpens others. He cited a blind neighbor whose touch grew keener and a man who lost a leg, noting one leg appears longer than the other after the accident.
Baltimore as Democratic Convention City Through Decades
Baltimore hosts the Democratic national convention for the seventeenth time in modern history. The article recalls 1869 riots, the Douglas and Breckinridge nominations, and contrasts Baltimore with Chicago Philadelphia St. Louis Indianapolis Cincinnati Buffalo and other cities in convention history.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Old City
Chesapeake
Chicago
Lincoln
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Ohio City
Robert G. Ingersoll
Jas. G. Blaine
Buffalo
Charleston
Cleveland
Denver
Harrisburg
Kansas City
Minneapolis
New York
Omaha
Pittsburg
United States
Front Street
Stephen A. Douglas
Illinois
Benjamin Fitzpatrick
Alabama
National Committee
Herschel V. Johnson
Georgia
Balters
Maryland Institute
John O. Breckinridge
Kentucky
Douglass
Little Giant
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