White Invaders Linked to South Sea Population Decline
A Manila correspondence reports alarming population declines in the Southern Pacific and New Guinea tied to diseases introduced by white settlers. Tuberculosis smallpox influenza dysentery beriberi and measles are blamed for steep losses across Yap German New Guinea New Guinea Pommern and Gilbert Islands with polished rice diets linked to beriberi prevalence.
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Pacific Islands
Manila
Rabaul
New Guinea
Yap
German New Guinea
New Pommern
Papua Islands
Samarai
Gilbert Islands
Beriberi
Seize Rowdies in Queens Riot Report
Police from Astoria and Hunter’s Point precincts broke up a Sunday night trolley rioting in Woodside and Queensboro Bridge Plaza. Seven young men were arrested for disorderly conduct after a conductor’s report of harassment and threats on the car. Police later pursued a disorderly man at the terminal. he bit Officer Eadie’s finger during a struggle and was jailed on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting an officer.
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Astoria
Hunter’s Point
Woodside
Hey
New York City
Eadie
St. John’s Hospital
Population trends in the Philippines and disease immunity
The text argues that population in the Philippines was stagnant or shrinking for centuries, then rose with sanitation under American occupation. It suggests some recent growth may come from gradually acquired immunity to diseases introduced by civilization about 400 years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippines
Record Day for Pickpockets on Elevated Trains
Four elevated train passengers report thefts totaling 514 dollars in cash and a 121 dollar check. Victims describe jostling as two men surged aboard and alarms at East Twenty-second and East Thirty-fifth Street stations noted the incidents.
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East Twenty-second Street
East Thirty-fifth Street
Owen Gilshannon
West New Brighton
S. I
Second Avenue
Thirty-fourth Street
Nathan Fine
East 102d Street
Third Avenue
Forty-second Street
Leon
Rossenwasser
William O’connor
East Eleventh Street
Whighteenth
Fourteenth Vein
Yosemite Runaway at Wawona Kills One in Valley Ride
A Yosemite tourist party from the East suffers a fatal stage accident on a steep Big Tree grade at Wawona. R. S. Licenring of Allentown is dead. several others, including Miss Martha Weber and Miss Diesenderfer of Boston and Mrs. A. Jaeckel of New York, are seriously hurt as the four-horse Big Mountain stage crashes near Camp Ahwanee. The driver escapes with a sprained foot.
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San Francisco
Yosemite
Big Tree Grove
Wawona
Yosemite Valley
R. S. Licenring
Allentown
Penn
Martha Webber
Boston
Diesenderfer
Camp Ahwanee
Yard
Big Trees
Cenning
Delaney Confesses Role in Dynamite Plot Tied to McNamara
John Delaney, in a confession, claimed he worked as a spy for John J. McNamara of the International Association of Structural Iron Workers. He said he marked targets for dynamite and was to be visited today for rehearsal. Police and officials dispute key parts of the tale and note inconsistent statements.
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Muskogee
Okla
John Delaney
John J. McNamara
International Association of Structural Iron Workers
Oklahoma City
Chicago
Osborns Dancing Fete Delights Janesville Society
In January Janesville society gathered for a grand dancing fete hosted by Mr and Mrs M R Osborn. The Kreil orchestra provided enchanting music while stylish attendees added to the radiant scene, making the spring like event a memorable social highlight of the season.
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M. R. Osborn
Janesville
Kreil
Janesville Recorder
Patrolman Haggerty Resigns After Short Newark Tour
Patrolman Daniel F. Haggerty started his Newark duty on Saturday night at 9 with a southern district post. After three hours he quit, returning to the station yesterday morning to hand in his club badge and keys and submit a resignation after brief training and two hours of patrol duty each evening.
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Daniel F. Haggerty
Newark
Police l Ife
Haggerty
Civil Service
Office desk photo sparks missing dinner joke
Mrs Doty recalls Mrs Enpeck saying her husband keeps her photograph on his office desk. Mr Doty quips that explains why he is late getting home to dinner.
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South Sea
Queens
East
Jaeckel
New York
Greenhuts
J.b.greenhut
Greenhut Building
Greenhut-Siegel Cooper Co
Axminster
Or Tc
Wiltoi
Ynday
Ute
Axminsters
Ding
Long Acre Electric Light & Power Co
Broadway, New York
Long Acre Electric Light & Power Company
Broadway
Nature of Business
H. P
K. W
Long Acre Electric Light and Power Co
Manhattan Island
Bronx
James F. Shaw
Delaney
McNamara
Salt Lake
Utah
Sharp
Head Today
Gimbels
Regal Shoe Company
REGAL
N. Y
the Tailors
Journeymen Tailors’ Union of America
West Thirty-first Street
Local 390
Fifth Avenue
N. Croonquest
The
New York Sun
Paris
Reed Furniture
Sheffield Plate
Gimbel Brothers
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