Electricity for use in surgery promises a heart safe anaesthetic
Investigations in Philadelphia and abroad report electricity as superior to drugs for analgesia, creating an “electric sleep” that does not harm the heart. If confirmed, this could revolutionize surgery and enable resuscitation after electrocution. Noted researchers include Dr Louise G. Robinovitch in New York and Stephane Leduc of Naples, with work at Philadelphia General Hospital to test apparatus and conduct trials.
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Philadelphia
Long
Stephane Leduc
Naples
United States
New York City
Louise G. Robinovitch
Robino-vitch
Philadelphia General Hospital
Mihrao Krikor Kasabian
Roentgen Ray Laboratory
Philadelphia Hospital
Solomon Solle Cohen
Fragmentary Houston ad copy hints at business chatter
A garbled newspaper fragment shows a crude exchange about a fight over sharing candy and a job, with scattered names and terms like Houston and advertising. The legible bits imply a local business or personal exchange, but details are unclear.
Harper Memorial Library to be Built at Chicago University
The Harper Memorial Library will rise on the University of Chicago campus to honor late president William Ratney Harper. Costing about 900000, with 600000 for construction and 100000 for furniture, plus 200000 for maintenance, the project includes 18000 square feet for 400000 volumes initially, later expandable to 800000, and features towers with offices and special libraries.
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Chicago University
Harper Memorial Library
University of Chicago
William Ratney
Harper
Ubrare
John LD. Rockefeller
University
Lexington and
Ellis Avenues
Fifty-ninth Street
Tua Malm
Ido Language Advocated by Copenhagen Professor at Columbia
Professor Otto Jesperson of the University of Copenhagen, visiting at Columbia, promotes Ido as the world language. He says it surpasses French English Italian and German in certain aspects and can be learned quickly by Russians and Americans to converse with ease.
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Jesperson
Ido
Adong
Neweat of
No Meat What A Protest Over Beef Prices
A 7,000 workers in Cleveland vow thirty days without meat in protest against high beef prices. The plan imagines a carnivorous dream of starving trusts and Armours, while farmers and vegetables rise in supply. The piece notes spinach carrots and other produce as alternatives, highlighting food scarcity debates and public discontent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
DIVE IN ICY WATER TO SAVE A TOWN
In Austin Pa on January 26 a heroic group prevented a dam break that threatened the town. A boy’s warning and thawing waters caused the valve to clog and the dam to tremble. Volunteers dived into icy water to clear a log from the safety valve enabling a controlled release. By dawn the danger subsided and the town was saved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Johnstown
Frankie
Bureau of Mines Bill Passes House in Washington
After a stormy session representatives backed the measure creating a bureau of mines in the Interior Department. The bill appoints a commissioner at 5900 dollars yearly and shifts supervision of structural materials investigations and coal testing from the Geological Survey to the new bureau. The commissioner, under the Interior secretary, will promote mining industries, study mining safety, ore treatment, explosives, and accident prevention.
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House
Washington
Tawney
Committee On Appropriations
Bureau of Mines
Interior Department
Geological Survey
Commissioner of Mines
Secretary of the Interior
United States
Man Dies of Fright While Roped To Wife In Alley
Reverdy Hostler sixty falls dead from fright in Homere Gap Altoona Pennsylvania while guiding a cutter that begins to slide toward a steep bank. His wife, seated beside him, witnesses the scare as both fail to stop the vehicle before the plunge. A second note mentions a butter boycott by 300 rubber shop workers in Naugatuck Connecticut protesting price hikes.
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Altoona
Hig Farm
Homere Gap
Reverdy Hostler
Hostier
Naugateck
Conn
Axhey Call i
Paris Flood Threatens City as Flood Waters Rise
Paris endures massive flooding as the Seine breaks barriers and floods 200 square miles including Charenton Alfortville Ivry Sur Seine. Soldiers and firefighters rescue families while hospitals and underground systems struggle with power water and communications failing.
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Paris
Charenton
Marne
Seine
Alfortville
Ivry-Sur-Seine
Zoological Garden
Phyaliang
Sulphuric Acid Bath Fells Worker in Foundry Fight
In a brass foundry a rough tumble ended with Roman Tahiraky being thrown into a tub of sulfuric acid. He swallowed some acid and lies dying in hospital as doctors battle to save him. The incident occurred amid a heated altercation among coworkers in New York on January 26.
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New York
Roman Tahiraky
Will provides $12000 for Holy Land school and church
In Saratoga on June 26, the will of Angeline K Newman widow of Bishop John P Newman directs a $12000 fund for the foundation and maintenance of a Christian school and place of worship in Jerusalem, Holy Land, under Methodist Episcopal Church auspices.
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Wills Holy Land School
Saratoga
N. Y
Jerusalem
Holy Land
Angeline K. Newman
John P. Newman
Methodist Episcopal Church
Murder in Cadillac Woodshed Questions Motive
Herman Achavfula aged thirty five was found murdered in the woodshed of his home nine miles north of Cadillac Michigan. Police found no sign of robbery and the motive remains unclear as investigators survey the scene and question neighbors.
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Pound
Cadillac
Mich
Herman Achavfula
Here
Woman backs big merger connects trolley plan across region
Mrs Anne Weightman Walker Penfield of Philadelphia and New York is linked to a large trolley merger. Promoters, aiming to girdle the region from Binghamton to Selinsgrove and beyond, plan a vast network with billions in expenditure and extensive intervening towns included.
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Penfield
Philadelphia
Gaidte
Bolinsgrove
Anne Weightman Walker Penfield
New York
Rnocewt
Binghamton
N Y
Selinn Grove
Sunbury
Lewinburg
Milton
Shamokin
Danville
N. Y
Pottsville
Mahanoy City
Shenandoah
Ashland
Mount Carrie
List of 103 Pittsburg council bribers and takers revealed
Pittsburg district attorney Blakeley lists 103 names of councilmanic bribe givers and takers tied to graft cases. Assistant DA Martin confirms envelope evidence from an attorney for a civic group and hints at 108 implicated men. A bankers’ faction fears arrest and has hired a bodyguard to protect him.
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Pittsburg
Blakeley
Criminal Court
Richard Martin
Blakelay
Martin
A. Leo Well
Veters’ League
Land for Whisky Exchange Claims Big Texas Deal
San Antonio reports James B. Aiken of Fort Worth says he exchanged 100,900 acres of Brewster and Presidio county land for 100,000 gallons of whisky with Dayton, Ohio distillery. Valuations set land at 1.10 per acre and whisky at the same value.
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Texas
San Antonio
Tex
James B. Aiken
Fort Worth
Brewster
Presidio Counties
Dayton, C
Man Dies While at Prayer in Del. Church
Selbyville Del Jan 26 Hent on knees in prayer during services at old Bishonville Southern Methodist Episcopal church Adolphus Carey superintendent of the Sunday School and a well known local figure was stricken with heart trouble and found dead when others noticed him kneeling after others arose
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Selbyville
Del
Hent
Old Bishonville Southern Methodist Episcopal Church
Adolphus Carey
Snowbound fire drives family from Dallas home
In Wilkes-Barre area on January 26, a fire destroyed Levi Snyder’s residence eight miles from here in Dallas. Six family members escaped in their night clothes and walked half a mile through deep snow to a neighbor. All suffered cold exposure. Mrs Snyder is said to be in critical condition.
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Seine
Alma
Adam
Orleans
Quai d’Orsay
Rue de Poitiers
Rue de Gille
Rue de
Wilkes- Barre
Levi Snyder
Dallas
Mra Snyder
Stolen Jewels Recovered as Forger Arrested in Broadway Buy
New York police arrest Frank A. Giese of Baltimore while purchasing a fur coat on Broadway. A chamola bag on him held diamonds and jewelry valued near $10,000 taken from Mrs. Sommers of 224 West Fifty seventh Street. Sommers identified the pieces at police HQ and said a pin was missing. Giese confessed. detectives traced him to Sommers' apartment and to a New Year’s party where she first met him.
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New York
Frank A. Giese
Baltimore
Broadway
Giese
Naonal Bank of the Republic
Chicago
Mw Mra
Thaw Alienist Arrested Over Jewel Larceny Charge
Pittsburg reports Dr C C Wie known as an alienist was arrested on larceny charges in a case linked to about 1400 dollars worth of jewels from former patient Misa Dora Pedder. Pedder says Wiley kept the jewels after two years of demands, refusing to return them.
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Thaw
Pittsburg
C C. Wie
Harry K. Thaw
Misa Dora Pedder
Wiley
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