Mail Ship Sails in Any Weather News of the New York Quarantine mail boat
A fogbound New York port sees the mail boat President depart Pier 72 to meet incoming liners. The 167 by 38 1/2 foot vessel carries mail bags from ships like Olympic and Berengaria, unloading with four lighters and chutes to move up to 6 000 bags in hours. The system speeds delivery to Varick Street Grand Central and Pennsylvania Station, with winter storms and fog testing the fleet.
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New York
Pier 72
Thirty-second Street
North River
United States
Muil
General Post Office
Mauretania
Fire Island
Varick Street
Pennsylvania Station
Grand Central
Boston
Cleveland
France
Bermuda
Financial District
Sea Post Service
W. J. Treloar
Sea Post and Mail Boat Service
R. P. Williams
Chicago
Manhattan
New York Times
Plans to check influenza epidemic discussed by Dr E D Jordan
Dr E D Jordan of Chicago told the American Public Health Association that preventing another influenza outbreak by quarantine and isolation is impractical on a world scale. He said face masks and chlorine gases offer limited value, and emphasis should be on reducing contact in small groups to lessen attack rates and virulence. He noted 20 million deaths may be possible in a future epidemic and urged ongoing study to prepare for the next outbreak.
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St. Louis
E. D. Jordan
University of Chicago Department of Bacteriology
American Public Health Association
Jordan
British India
Weber Mass Fourd Vienna Lost Weber Mass Reveals Itself
The score of a mass composed by Carl Maria von Weber once believed destroyed in the 1808 fire has resurfaced in Vienna, offering scholars a new link to the composer and his early works.
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Vienna
Carl Maria von Weber
Langtry Texas Loses Its Namesake Justice Roy Bean
Langtry, once Vinagaroon, will be abandoned as Southern Pacific builds a 14 mile cutoff that shortens the Los Angeles to New Orleans route by five miles. A new Langtry town will form on the cutoff while locals push to preserve Bean’s notorious courthouse as a small park. Bean governed with common sense justice and improvised trials, often during sessions held in his saloon with a drink nearby. The Jersey Lily Lily Langtry’s visit inspired the town’s renaming after Bean chose Langtry as the new name for the settlement.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Langtry
Roy Bean
Pecos
Clarence B. Gilm
Texas Railroad Conmission
Southern Pacific
Los Angeles
New Orleans
Gilmore
Bean “Palace of Justice
Bean
Bear
Delrio
J. B. Falvey
el Paso
Falvey
Vinagaroon
Lily Langtry
San Francisco
Jersey Lily
Bean Place
Last Contract Let on Welland Canal
The final contract for the Welland canal linking Lake Erie and Lake Ontario was let. The project, begun 1912, will cut travel time to eight hours and allow 800 foot vessels. Sections 1 3 4 5 6 progress toward navigation with nine total segments and large concrete locks.
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Welland
Toronto
Welland Canal
Lake Erie
Lake Ontario
Montreal
Duluth
Port Arthur
Panama Canal
Panama
Niagara
China
Port Colborne
Port Dalhousie
Port Weller
Great Lakes
Grant Morden
Gatun
Canal
Thorold
Belief Irish Sprang From Eskimos Discussed
Berlin professor Doctor Parker y argues in a University College Dublin lecture that Irish may descend from Eskimos. He notes isolated Irish and Scottish pockets show Mongoloid traits such as oblique eyes and straight black hair. He dates Ireland’s first inhabitants to about 4000 B C when ice covered the island.
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Dublin
Parkery
Berlin
University College
Ireland
Scotland
Wild Horses Offered For Sale At Five A Head
Portlanders learn stockmen in eastern Oregon vow to deliver between 50 000 and 80 000 wild horses to the railroad at five dollars each if a market exists. C F Wade of the Oregon Humane Society says horses are already being rounded up in the south and shipped to Petaluma California. He notes some value among the herd but most are small scrubby animals and suggests using them as fertilizer to free range for cattle with marketable value.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon
C. F. Wade
The
Oregon Humane Society
Petaluma
Cal
Wade
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Meridian Park Hill
Washington
Charles Deering
Jose Clara
Congress
Fine Arts Commission
Weber Mass Fourd
Boy Scouts
Theodore Roosevelt
Dan Beard
Shortens
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