Pellagra Found Infectious Not Diet Related
A Post Graduate Medical School report from New York states pellagra is infectious and spreads where sewerage is poor. In Spartan Mills South Carolina after installing efficient sewage systems, new cases dropped, suggesting transmission via sanitation gaps rather than diet. The commission notes maize diet is not the sole cause and calls for sewered towns to curb spread.
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New York
Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital
South Carolina
Spartanburg County
Spartan Mills
Spartansburg
Italy
Post Graduate Hospital
Name of France Poem by Henry Van Dyke
Poem from the Art World titled The Name of France dedicates to France. It evokes national courage, learning, art, and the fight for freedom with lines praising France as a beacon guiding humanity toward equality and universal liberty.
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Henry van Dyke
Holland
Katrina
France
Mr. van Dyke
Irrigation Seen Increasing Delta Cotton Yields
Memphis agronomist H. M. Cot trell of the chamber of commerce farm bureau says irrigation could raise Mississippi Delta cotton yields to two bales per acre, well above the current average below one bale. He notes summer moisture gaps despite ample overall rainfall.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi Delta
H. M. Cottrell
Chamber of Commerce Farm Bureau
Mississippi Valley
Korean leper confesses to murder linked to cannibal cure
Sin Yungsyun, a Korean leper, admits killing a five year old boy whose body was found in a South Cholla field. He says a fellow leper and he also killed a girl on September 15 in the mountains and ate portions of her flesh. The piece notes lepers face hardship and reports Sorok Island will host a leper asylum teaching modern farming.
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Seoul
Korea
Sin Yungsyun
Cholla
Fusan
Terauchi
Sorok
Californian student rides Lincoln highway for $1.55
Charles Brown Jr a New York University magazine writing student traveled nearly 1000 miles from Fort Wayne Indiana to New York City in seven days riding in cars for a total cost of 1.55 dollars. He relied on strangers generosity during the journey aided by stops at a barber shop and a barn overnight. His longest auto ride was 125 miles and the shortest under 125 feet when an anxious farmer and wife forced him to leave in the Pennsylvania mountains.
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New York
Charles Brown, Jr
New York University
Brown
Tort Wayne
Ind
New York City
Lincoln Highway
Fort Wayne
Pennsylvania Mountains
Salvage Effort Frees Sesostris After 13 Years Ashore
San Diego report says the former German freighter Sesostris, stranded at Ocos Guatemala for 13 years, has been floated. Captain Ridley of the Pilot says hydraulics and 150 natives cleared sand banks and the ship now sails as before. Salvagers expect profits exceeding 1 million dollars from the operation.
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San Diego
Cal
Ocos
Guatemala
R. Ridley
British Columbia
Pilot
Evansville Couple Wed in Mutually Matched Union
In Evansville Indiana Elizabeth Quinn 90 pounds and Jap Towns send a husky Kentuckian 200 pounds began life together in a wedding here.
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Evansville
Ind
Elizabeth Quinn
Jap Townsend
Glass Eye Explodes as He Looks at Pie
In Chicago F I Cosgrove a farmer near North Vernon dropped from his chair in a restaurant when his glass eye exploded while he stared at a piece of pie. He was revived. Cosgrove had traveled to Hammond Indiana on business and had received the eye only days earlier after his original eye was destroyed by dynamite.
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Chicago
F. IK
Cosgrove
North Vernon
Hammond
Ind
Use of heroin is barred by federal public health service
Washington. To curb rising heroin use nationwide all physicians of the federal public health service have been ordered not to dispense the drug for any purpose and to return any on hand to headquarters at once. Officials hope the move will influence general practitioners nationwide.
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Washington
Federal Public Health Service
Robbers Chloroform Hogs in Iowa The Heist
Edward Boelschner, a West Union farmer, reports three nocturnal hog thefts over months. Eight hogs vanished overnight while a hired man slept. thieves left two chloroform bottles, anesthetized the hogs, and loaded them onto a wagon.
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West Union
Edward Boelschner
Boelschner
Old Father Time Poem by Harry Irving Greene
A reflective poem recounting cosmic time from creation to humanity. Old Father Time, with a glass, watches epochs pass from space to earth and greets each New Year with a pour of another land, a symbolic perpetual cycle of time.
I Will Make These Resolutions for My Health and Habits
The speaker vows to care for the body and maintain a clean home, acting with diligence against disease. They commit to inner and outer cleanliness, avoiding dirt and distress while cultivating cheer and steering clear of anger and moroseness.
The Daybreak Creed Prayer of Personal Resolve
A reflective vow promising daily prayer before work. It emphasizes strength, honesty, service, loyalty to principle, and a life improved by character. The speaker pledges temperance, kindness, discretion, modest tastes, and harmony with nature, ending with a wish to leave the world better.
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France
Aspiration carries one half the way to one's desire
A short aphorism attributed to Elizabeth Gibson states that aspiration moves a person halfway toward their goals, highlighting motivation as a key step in achievement.
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Elizabeth Gibson
Pain Makes Rest Less Pleasing for Some
A brief note reports that excessive rest causes discomfort for some individuals, making relaxation harder to achieve. Medical advice suggests structured activity and gradual pacing to ease symptoms and improve daily functioning.
Her New Year Resolve in Anona L Barbauld’s Verse
A reflective line from Anona L Barbauld urging devotion in daily life. The text pleads to lift eyes to heaven and praise God through work, prayer, travel, rest, and wakefulness. It emphasizes continual praise and virtue in the new year.
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Anona L. Barbauld
New Year Riddle: Begin With 1916 Writing
A playful exchange asks how to start the New Year and answers with a date based prompt. The dialogue suggests a whimsical link between turning the calendar and writing in the year 1916.
Emergency appropriation aids guardsmen families and mint needs
The emergency appropriation of 4 .25 million dollars passed the House and moved to the Senate. It funds 210 000 for the Philadelphia mint 37 000 for Denver 25 500 for San Francisco and 45 000 for the New York assay office to handle coin demand. Senator Wadstworth's Niagara Falls water-diversion plan to boost American electricity passed the Senate.
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Union News Service
Washington
House
Senate
Philadelphia
Denver
San Francisco
New York
Wadstworth
Niagara Falls
Washington raises wages for state workers and aides
The house approved an appropriations bill increasing salaries 5 to 10 percent for about 16,000 state employees earning under 1800 dollars annually and adding 500 dollars for each representative secretary. Secretaries move from 1500 to 1500 dollars? The measure totals about 39000 dollars. Debates focused on the country's financial condition.
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Washington
House
Washington President Wilson Calls for Peace Terms
President Wilson appeals to all belligerents to discuss terms of peace without mediation. He has sent formal notes urging an early occasion for the nations at war to avow their views on terms for ending the conflict and avoiding future renewals, with arrangements satisfactory to all sides.
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Washington
Wilson
Sheppard Bill Set Aside After Senate Delay
Washington report notes a parliamentary misplay by a ally delaying an immediate vote on Senator Sheppard's District of Columbia prohibition bill. The measure is moved to final action on January 9 after opponents argued it had lost its calendar place. Friends fear the Christmas recess worsens passage prospects.
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Washington
Alons
Sheppard
Senate
Ashhurst
General Scott backs universal military service plan
Washington Major General Scott chief of staff tells the senate military committee that the volunteer system should be discarded and the country must adopt universal liability to military training and service to avoid war at a cost.
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Washington
Scott
Army
Senate Military Committee
President Wilson to reject out of town speaking invitations
President Wilson will not accept any out of town engagements during the current session of Congress. The reply responds to numerous invitations urging the president to speak in various sections of the country.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
England Enacts First Food Restrictions on Meals
London records the first food restriction in England as hotels and restaurants are banned from serving more than two courses for breakfast or luncheon and three for dinner. Early reports indicate little disruption to the two lighter meals, with the standard English breakfast typically including cereal and bacon eggs or fish and most eateries offering two course luncheons.
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London
England
Boston Votes to Keep License Saloon After Heated Campaign
Boston residents approved keeping the liquor license in a lively campaign. The tally was 53,459 for license and 29,997 against, with last year’s vote 46,115 for and 31,877 against. Evangelist William A. Sunday campaigned here and urged attendees to vote No.
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Boston
William A. Sunday
Jurisdiction Changes In Warsaw To Go Into Effect
A 1917 decree alters Warsaw governance with civil and military jurisdiction to be handled by justices of the peace district courts and the supreme court. Polish and German languages will be used in courts. Representatives from Polish towns seek a regional association to pursue shared interests.
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Berlin
Warsaw
Justice of the Peace
Supreme Court
Farmland Promise in Western Canada for Postwar World
The article urges farmers to expand wheat cattle and hog production as global demand rises after the war. It promotes Western Canada lands as cheap, fertile and suitable for full family farms, noting free homesteads in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta and future price rises in wheat and livestock. It cites high farm labor use in Europe and Ties to supply global needs while highlighting government aid and railroad options.
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Lfe
Canada
United States
Europe
Western
Dominion
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Traveling for Health in Crimson Gulch Card Game Warning
A visitor asks where Three-Fingered Sam is and learns he is traveling for his health. The men at the card table warn that if he stays, he risks hospitalization, and a prescription dealt in a game is treated as medical advice to take the trip.
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Sam
Crimson Gulch
Cuticura Soap and Ointment Ad Offer Free Sample
Heal your skin troubles with Cuticura Bathing Soap and Ointment. Bathe, dry, and apply to stop itching, clear pimples and blackheads, remove dandruff, heal rough hands, and soothe baby skin. Free sample by mail with Book. Address postcard to Cuticura Dept. L Boston. Sold everywhere.
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Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Adry
Gossip Sparks Bridal Match Inquiry at Oldtown
A playful mean suggestion circulates about Miss Oldgirl’s upcoming marriage. The speaker humorously asks if the groom is a collector of antiques, hinting at a possible social curiosity in Oldtown society.
Quinine Product Promotes Tonic Laxative Effects
An advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine as safe for all users with no nervousness or head ringing. The label claims tonic and laxative benefits and features the signature of BL W. Groves on every box.
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W. Groves
German fruit consumption per capita in normal times
In normal times the annual German consumption of fruit amounts to about 100 pounds per person.
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Leper
Boy
Farmer
Bandit
Sesostris
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Pie
Harry Irving Greene
Western Newspaper Union
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