National meeting on tuberculosis prevention and care in Washington
An anti consumption conference in Washington discusses the burden of tuberculosis with 400 deaths daily in the U nited States. Surgeon General Wyman presides as Homer Folks sets forth a national program for prevention, education, and coordinated action. Plans include uniform nomenclature, compulsory notification, local tuberculosis societies, hospitals and sanitariums, district nurse home visits, disinfection, dispensaries, and public ordinances against spitting.
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Washington, D. C
United States
National Association For the Study and Prevention of
New Willard Hotel
Wyman
United States Marine Hospital Service
Homer Folks
News York
Isyman
Weard’ T. Devine
Came City
Talcott
nLlamg
National Association
TPS
Presbyterians of the South Meet in Fort Worth
May 18 Fort Worth Texas presbyterians of the South held the annual assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church. Delegates from states including West Virginia Maryland North Carolina and others gathered under retiring Moderator Rev Abner O Hopking. A telegram of greeting came from the Northern Assembly at Winona Lake Indiana. The session opened with devotional exercises and an opening sermon. A new moderator was to be elected and other principal business discussed. The land office at Oregon City will move to Port and on July 4.
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Fort Worth
Texas
West Virginia
Maryland
North Carolin
Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Missisgipp
Louisiana
Arkansas
Missouri
Indian Territory
General Assembly of the
Southern, Presbyterian, Church
Cause of Sudden Deaths Warns of Kidney Disease
A drooping health warning discusses a prevalent kidney disease causing heart failure pneumonia and apoplexy. It promotes Dr Kilmer's Swamp-Root as a remedy claimed to improve kidney function relieve incontinence and reduce urinary urgency. The ad promises sample bottles and free literature by mail from Kilmer & Co. Binghamton NY.
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Lecepe
Kilever
Mer & Co
Binghamton, N
Oregon’s Lewis and Clark Fair Proclamation Opens Jubilee Day
Governor Chamberlain calls Oregon’s people to honor the Lewis and Clark expedition by a statewide holiday and public celebration in Portland. The proclamation urges citizens to take the day off work and attend the fair opening as a display of patriotic pride in maritime exploration and national achievement.
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Chamberlain
Oregon
Muriwether Lewis
William Clack
Thomia Jefferson
Meriwether
Lewis
William Ghavk
Northwest Territory
Sacajawea
Columbia
Theo
Portland
George E. Chamberlain
Aptis
The
Tate
Lewis and Clark heritage praised for future generations
The passage honors the enduring heritage traced to Lewis and Clark and their devoted followers. It emphasizes gratitude for the explorers' legacy and the responsibility to pass it to children yet unborn.
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Lewis and Clark
John W. Gates 60 Years Old in Public Eye
Chicago May 18 John W Gates famed for bold speculations marked his sixtieth birthday though he spends much time in New York and elsewhere Chicago remains his home Born near Chicago in Turner he rose from threshing machine engineer at 15 to railroad fireman at 17 He founded the Southern Wire company in St Louis at age 28 a forerunner of the American Steel and Wire company and later benefited greatly from a merger with United States Steel Corporation
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Chicago
John W. Gates
Gates
New York
Turner
Southern Wire Company of
St.Louis
American Steel and Wire Company
United States Step Corporation
Oster Goes to Fingland to Assume Oxford Professorship
DF William Osler, late of Johns Hopkins University, sails for England to take up the regius professorship of medicine at Oxford University. The note mentions gratitude and a critical jab at a theatrical trust impacting the country’s beef supply and hams.
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Oster
Fingland
New York
William Osler
Johns Hopking University
England
Regius
Oxford University
Theatrical Trust
Pendleton Ukiah Daily Trip Schedule Fragment
Daily trip between Pendleton and Ukiah with stage times misread. Stage leaves Pendleton around 7 a m arrives Ukiah around unknown. Return stage from Ukiah around 6 p m reaches Pendleton late. Fragmentary text preserves few concrete details.
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Pendleton
Ukiah
Caeunt Honday
Poo ‘Dieten
M. Geture
Bennuanaes
F Peendleton
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Laatz Bros
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Murphy
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Payne
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East Oregonian
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Mail & Express
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Riparia
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Columbia River
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Kanee City
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Omaha
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Crookston
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Tendleton
Bay
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Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
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