Navy Insanity Study Urges Rigorous Recruit Screening
A Washington study of the government hospital for the insane finds one quarter of Navy and Marine Corps insanity linked to privates. It criticizes civilian physicians and Navy medical officers for haste, calls for mental examinations and a six month probation, and urges checking family history. Germans among the foreign born are noted as having better mental makeup. from 1899 to 1910 recoveries approached 50 percent with deaths under 7 percent and most victims aged 20 to 30.
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Ita
Government Hospital For the Insane
Washington, D. C
Butts
Navy
Cheap Oklahoma Houses
A builder in Oklahoma informs the Bureau of Manufactures that it is profitable to construct four room cement houses sold complete with cement porches and outbuildings for 1000 dollars on installments. The project is located thirty five miles from a railroad, with freight charges and drainage costs on cement lumber hardware and other materials. The cottages feature cement floors steel ceilings hollow block walls and shingled roofs. the contractor claims they are fireproof and substantial.
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Oklahoma
Bureau of Manufactures
Parthian
Four Room Houses One Dollar Year In Fuggerei Berlin
The Rev. J F Dickie reports in Augsburg Germany a tiny city called the Fuggerei built with funds of the sixteenth century banker Fugger. The 106 four room houses are given to poor aged families for 3 marks and 12 pfennigs yearly rent equal to one dollar. Each dwelling includes a kitchen and small garden.
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J. F. Dickie
Berlin
Augsburg
Germany
Fugger
Christian Herald
Relics of Stone Age in Yucatan Revealed
Arthur Diosy reports explorations in Yucatan uncovering 300 miles of ancient ruins with remarkable stone architecture and decorative arts. He notes the builders possessed no metal tools, using flint implements, and a civilization rivaling Egypt in scale formed without bronze or iron.
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Arthur Diosy
Yucatan
Mr. Diosy
Egypt
Chicago Tribune
Honor for Lady Mayors and a New Title
The article discusses honoring female mayors as coronation approaches and suggests a new designation such as Dame or Mistress to avoid confusion with knights. It envisions a distinct title for wives of male titleholders, noting quaint wording and practical differentiation.
Paris Debates Tax on Minette Amid Cat Protests
In Paris readers mock a two Franc yearly tax on Minette the cat as cartoonists joke about a rival rat levy. The piece notes public indignation and suggests the tax as comic fodder while contrasting Paris concerns with English rat issues.
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Paris
Minette
England
Purdon Enters Arizona Race With Quirky Platform
In a Duluth correspondence, Charles Purdon of Douglas Arizona says he expects to succeed Ralph Cameron as Arizona congressman when Cameron runs for governor. His platform is brief and unique promising fire rooms baths and a piano for everybody. He has lived in Arizona eight years.
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Arizona
Charles Purdon
Douglas
Long Lived Kentuckians Past Thirty Years
Georgetown Times notes last year forty three people aged seventy and over died in Georgetown and Scott County with an average age slightly over seventy years.
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Georgetown
Scott County
Georgetown Times
Hop Pillows Said To Induce Sleep On Elevated Train
A man sleepless for years finds hops stuffed into a pillow may quell unrest. After testing European and American hops he discovers Bohemian, California, and Crete blends best for sleep and relief. He demonstrates on an elevated train near Recta Street as riders watch, unsettled by his odd remedy.
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Austria
Bohemia
California
Crete
New York
Squirrels Escape Fire Near Nest in Scotland
A passerby alerted locals when a small fire in a nest of sticks and leaves at the Squirrels home near Scotland endangered a family. Mr Brown tried to top the chimney, four shots rang out, and no serious damage occurred as the fire was quickly controlled.
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Brown
Toston
Fire Endangers Historic Engine at Nashville Station
Fire destroyed a passenger train and the train shed at Chattanooga’s Nashville station, threatening the Civil War era engine General. Firefighters saved the engine, which stood in the station shed for years, amid a tale of Andrews’s raiders racing the locomotive General and the Confederate line. The General has remained in repair at Chattanooga station.
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Chattons
Nashville
Timie
Andrews
Chattanooga
Caulianooga
Cincinnati Enquirer
Granite quality rises in the Southern stone trade
The South now produces substantial granite from Georgia North Carolina Maryland and Virginia and its annual output reaches about 33500000 surpassing New England as a regional supplier. Maine clam diggers gain higher prices while bargainers keep shells rates steady. A Roxbury man finds the same trapped fox years apart in Franklin County.
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South
Vermont
North America
New England
Georgia
North Carolina
Maryland
Virginia
Chicago Tribune
New Aisle for a Crypt Store at Spitalfields Church
Rector C H Chard converts church crypt at Spitalfields into a free furniture store for the destitute. The vault houses furniture for poor families whose homes are broken up, offered until they can reoccupy their house again.
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C. H. Chard
Spitalfields
Lou Bree Baan
Democrats of Bolivar Meet for Conventions Delegates
Democrats of Bolivar township and affiliates meet at Otterbein opera house at 2 p m Saturday March for electing one delegate and one alternate to the Democratic state convention in Indianapolis on March 19 and one delegate and one alternate to the Congressional Convention. C W Davis, Chairman.
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Bolivar Township
Otterbein Opera House
Mar Ith
Indianapolis
Public sale to liquidate farm holdings near Otterbein Oxford Fowler Aydelotte
Auction begins at 10 o clock with 14 horses including Percherons and other stock, 3 head of cattle, 10 hogs, farm implements and miscellaneous goods. Sellers George Caise and Hawkins Nagle Auctioneers note good terms and flat lunch will be served.
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Otterbein
Oxford
Fowler
Aydelotte
Defiance
Syracuse
Deering
New International
Avery
New Century
Aexibie
Black Hawk
Timothy Day
George Caise
Hawkins & Nagle
Otterbein Sun Postal Record Notice
The Otterbein Sun is described as a second class matter publication at the Otterbein Indiana post office under the 1879 act. This note identifies its mailing status rather than news content.
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Otterbein Ind
Congress
Concron In Indiana Assoc Weekly Word Fragments
Fragmented OCR text references Willy Thone and Mexico border mentions. Huerta is described as killing time in Villaxico with unclear context. No coherent event or outcome established.
cryptic social commentary item from early 20th century column
A terse, fragmentary snippet railing against murder trials and public morals. It notes a hygiene expert predicting changes in female dress and predicts G Burlexques exiting the city business in 1920. The tone is satirical and editorial.
Ratigan Declares Trial Passed With Implicit Confidence
Walter Ratigan states he faced his trial with implicit confidence in God. He rejects any idea of ranking an honest lawyer with the Deity, calling such profanity.
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Walter Ratigan
Local Talk Clarifies Roles in Women’s Vote Debate
A fragment from a discussion questions voting causes and gender roles. It suggests men would support or oppose changes while women take a negotiating stance about domestic duties in the context of suffrage.
Unremarkable Loss of Unfinished Ten Dollar Bill
A note remarks that the loss of 400 unfinished ten dollar bills at the treasury in Washington is not remarkable given how easily a ten dollar bill can disappear once it is in circulation.
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Treasury
Washington
Winter Weather Bites With Freezing Winds Reaching Zero
The almanac notes winter conditions this week with biting wind chills and temperatures dropping toward zero. Severe cold slows tram service as banks report 6 to 16 feet? of snowfall and roads become slick.
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