What People Say About Prohibition in Bentonville
A reader cites a Spokesman-Review letter and a Bentonville Arkansas reply arguing prohibition cuts saloons and crime. The mayor claims no saloons in 20 years, with 12 lawyers, lower taxes, and praiseworthy homes, while noting differences in courts and crime tied to liquor traffic.
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Spokesman- Review
Spokane
Bentonville
Ark
James Val. Baker
Morehoue
Benton County
Whitkey
Pa W. Morris
P. S
United States
E. L. Taylor
Coffee grocer refunds money after failed error
A grocer reportedly refunds a customer after a mistaken charge or failed item, offering to return money to the buyer. The fragment suggests a transaction dispute resolved with a cash return by the retailer.
Hypnotism Cures Bedridden Woman in Remarkable Case
Dr Gustave W Gayer reports a striking hypnotherapy success curing Mrs Florence Connors 26 after three months bedridden with sciatic rheumatism and pleurisy. Hypnosis eased agony within ten minutes and she remained well, walking and performing duties in cheerful spirits.
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Gustave W. Gayer
Charcot
Paris
John D Quackenbos
New York
S. EB. Maddox
Gayer
West Sixty-third Street
Florence Connors
West One Hundred and Seventh Street
Geyer
Mra. Connora
Dr.Gayer
Mothers Skin Grafts Save Child in Brooklyn Fire Incident
In Brooklyn, a mother and two children donated skin to save a seven year old girl named Mildred Lynch after a bonfire accident. Surgeons grafted skin from the family’s thighs to cover nearly a third of Mildred’s body at Kings County hospital. The operation marked the hospital’s most extensive skin grafting case and all patients recovered quietly.
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Mildred Lynch
New York Dispatch
Mildred
Pine Street
Brooklyn
Children’s Hospital
Arthur
Isabella
Kings County Hospital
Mrs. Lynch
Extend irrigation work under cooperative plan in Idaho
W G Davies in charge reports seven survey crews in Idaho field from government dam above Boise to Payette line surveying laterals and plan work for bringing more land under water. About 192 miles of canals are laid out with portions built and others ready to contract. Old Phyllis ditch to be cleaned for irrigation from below Caldwell to an old placer claim. New settlements near Greenleaf and Fargo at Homedale will see drops 59 to 126 feet generating several thousand horsepower.
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W. G. Davies
Reclamation Service
Government Dam
Boise
Oreton
Payette
Boise Capital News
Caldwell
Greenleaf
San Francisco
Fargo
Homedale
Gunness Dead Confirmed by Poison in Stomachs
Coroner announces Dr. Haines found arsenic and strychnine in the stomachs of Belle Gunness and her two children. This evidence upsets former theories, suggesting Gunness may have killed her children and herself with poison. Officials state Gunness dead beyond doubt, while Lamphere case remains unresolved.
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Polton
Mra. Cunness
Attorney Worden
Ray Lamphere
Gunness
Helgelin
Smith
Smutzer
Dr. Haines
Mra. Gunness
Belle Gunness
Burbank Outdone In State By Garden Inventions
Reports from Pennsylvania rural correspondents claim multiple Burbank style plant crosses surpassing the California wizard. Stories describe sugar corn crossed with beans, a lemon tree and rye hybrid, a tree beekeeping cross, and a butter potato from a butter bean cross. Observers warn some tales may be exaggerated as editors seek verified facts while noting no regular Snake River boat service for the first time in six decades due to railroad shifts.
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Luther Burbank
California
Wilkes-Barre
Burbank
Tie Ing Bun
Abrahim Sell
Sell's Field
Sell
Murphy's Cross Roads
John Slavin
Coatesville
Quaker City
Ben
Snake River
Lewiston
Raparia
Immoral Gown Postcard Ban Declared by Mexican Post Office
The Mexican post office department has declared the sheath gown immoral and indecent. The ruling applies to postcards bearing images of this gown style, which are barred from mail delivery.
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City of Mexico
Poat
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Spokesman-Review
East Oregonian
Morehouse
Business Men's League
J. Val
BAKER
Harry Kupana
No. 749
Tenth Avenue
Schilling
Idaho
Sale
Diana Lal Mas
Mio
Pennsylvania Farmers Produce Won
Bradfield Regulator
Atlanta, Cs
Val Ol Ath At
J. L. Vaughan
W. Court St
Beecham’s
Beecham
THE
Cor
Main & Court Sts
A. C. Friedly, Mgr
Bright Eyes
Pendleton
Pendleton O.2r.& N
Portland
O.R. & N. Washington Division
Walla Walla
Northern
Pacific
Pasco
Umatilla Central
Pilot Rock
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