Yellow Fever Risks in Transatlantic Travel and Gorgas’s Warnings
The article discusses General Gorgas’s warning about rapid Atlantic transport spreading yellow fever from South America to Africa and Europe. It contrasts yellow fever with malaria, explains past transit times, and notes that aircraft could alter the risk, suggesting quarantine or eradicating yellow fever in South America as remedies.
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Atlantic
Panama
Africa
South America
Gorgas
America
Brazil
Ocean
London
Europe
Naval Movie Camera Captures Shell Impacts at Long Range
Report describes a long range naval camera used in gunnery practice to photograph shell impacts from 300 to 20 000 yards. The device resembles a cannon but serves as a photographic instrument for evaluating target performance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Restore Minnie Hauk's Sight In Paris
Baroness Von Hesse-Wartegg formerly Minnie Hauk of New York has undergone a highly successful operation for blindness. Her eyesight had faded for seven years and she could barely distinguish day from night before the procedure at the American hospital in Paris.
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Minnie Hauk
Paris
Baroness von Hesse-Wartegg
New York
American Hospital
Harness Heat of Kilauea Plan for Thermal Borings
Dr. T A Jaggar urged immediate experimental borings in Kilauea to map heat flow and harness power. Plans call for at least 50 borings, depth 200–300 feet in crater center and 50–100 feet elsewhere, with $8,000 in subscriptions, $7,000 already donated.
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Honolulu
Kilauea
Hawaii
T. A. Jagea
Volcano Observatory
Volcano Research Association
Jaggar
Research Association
Mauna Loa
Mokuaweowee
Angelic mission to repatriate German POWs and refugees
Miss Elsa Brandstrom the "angel of Siberia" plans to buy a southern German village to turn into a human reclamation camp. The Swedish Red Cross nurse has repatriated thousands of German and Austrian prisoners from Siberia and Russia and aims to shelter and rehabilitate those still wandering postwar.
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Red Cross
Gin
Siberia
Mockholm
Russia
Elsa Brandstrom
Europe
Siberian
Miss Brandstrom
Edward Brandstrom
Stockholm
Misa Brandstrom
Tooth Pull Helps Music Class Triumph
Miss Winnetta L. Stacks recounts a boy who could not blow a flute due to a front tooth crowding his lips. The mother found the boy bleeding after he pulled the tooth with pliers, then at the first student recital he managed to blow notes on the flute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Winnetta L. Stacks
Methodist Episcopal Deaconess
One-Legged Man Cited For Transmitting Intoxicants
In Spartanburg South Carolina Alex Ballenger a one legged Black man was escorted down Main Street after a muffled splash was heard He was arrested at the station a wooden leg contained a pint of liquor He faced a judge who fined him $100 for transporting intoxicants.
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Spartanburg
S.C
Alex Ballenger
Main Street
Organization Forms Wild Life League of West Virginia
Clarksburg West Virginia reports the perfection here of the Wild Life League of West Virginia. The organization aims to foster protection of fish game and forest resources in the state.
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Wild Life League
Clarksburg
W. Va
Wild Life League of
West Virginia
Ambassadors Recall Rumors of Jusserand Leaving Washington
Washington hears rumors from France that Jules Jusserand may resign as ambassador to the United States. The discussion centers on his recall amid French conference criticism and speculation about the League of Nations and Harding’s election.
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Edward B. Clark Washington
Ashington
France
United States
Jules J. Jusserand
Washington
Weebing
J. Jusserand
Jusserand
Paris
Wilson
United States Senate
League of Nations
Harding
Republican National Committee
Jusserance
Vernment
Pl Ds
Refore
Vivianf
Briand
Jules J. Juperand
Forestry Bureau
Irip
Department of the Interior
Wallace
Secretary of I
Cultivate Your Corns and Ease Gout Fears
Chiropodist Mr. T. Gillings argues corns and other foot callosities drain chalk from the body and cause rheumatism and gout. He claims keeping corns growing delays pains and cites tending many London officials over fifty years.
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T. Gillings
London
Gillings
Fashionable Young Man Detained Over Lipstick Clue
Birmingham Age Herald notes a stylish young man was picked up on the street and a lipstick found on him. The paper reports speculation that the lipstick might be a memento from a romance, with mild interpretation offered as the kindest.
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Birmingham Age- Herald
Man kills mother in law during Newark home attack
In Newark a newlywed shoots his mother in law during a nighttime burglary at 290 Morris Avenue. He faints after discovering the body as his wife’s sister Kate claims an unseen attacker chased her. police consider the shooting an accident but hold Manfio and witness Kate as a material witness.
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Strange Man
New York
Morris Avenue
Newark
Charles Monfrio
Antonia Cascella
Manfiio
Kate
Lena
Grand Jury
Rose d’Antonio
Rose
Women Farm Small Towns in Western Canada Thrive
Story highlights English immigrant May Hazlett running a Touchwood hills farm after her brother died at Vimy Ridge. Alberta pioneer Mary Blackburn expands from tent to 160 acres near Hardisty, building a 60 head Holstein dairy. Also profiles two Manitoba sisters who turned a 160 acre farm into a 1120 acre operation with 25 heavy horses and nearly 100 cattle. The piece notes shifting views of women in farming and promotes Canada West literature.
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Canada
May Hazlett
Touchwood Hills
Saskatchewan
Miss Hazlett
Vimy Ridge
Miss
Blackburn
Oak Lake District
Manitoba
Western Canada
Canada West
Rat Acrobat Escapes Trap at Texas Store
In Waxahachie Texas Ed South and Roy Borders workers for a local furniture firm set a wire between tub handles and three pieces of cheese to trap the famed rat acrobat. The rat walked the wire and escaped with one cheese piece, leaving the others.
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Waxahachie
Tex
Ed South
Roy Borders
Odd Cures for Rheumatism Across Europe
The article surveys quirky rheumatism beliefs. It notes Dutch folk remedies using potatoes and chestnuts, English Midlands amulets from hare forefeet, Cornish uses of mountain ash wood, and a 1742 recipe from The Compleat Housewife involving glazed gunpowder, milk, and fasting to induce sweating over nine or ten mornings.
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Holland
Midlands
England
Barrage From Washington Sparks Grumpgan Friction
A reader recounts asking his congressman to resign after displeasing legislation. The exchange reveals lingering tension as the congressman continues sending speeches by franking, and the narrator expresses regret at making his presence known.
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Washington
Mr. Grumpgan
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Armaere
Mbassador Jusserand
Congress
New England
Union
Mississippi
Sims
Yhetus Willette Sims
Tennessee
Woo
Post Office Department
Western
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