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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1906
Page
7
Dr W G Hope spoke at the city teachers institute on tuberculosis in schools. He warned of the disease’s spread in crowded rooms and urged ventilation, hygiene, and prompt care, detailing practical steps for teachers and parents to reduce infection risk.
The Emporia Gazette details a six by seven foot time card board in Superintendent McClellan's office that maps the eastern division of the Santa Fe, showing 497.7 miles of track and 73 daily trains. Colored lines mark time, black lines stations, and pins with strings indicate train movements and speeds, with dispatchers coordinating departures and halts across 118 stations.
Washington reports that cotton dominated US exports in the just finished fiscal year. The raw cotton value surpassed 400 million dollars, far exceeding breadstuffs, provisions, or iron and steel, with manufactured cotton also rising to 53 million. Europe remains the main buyer, led by the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Italy, while China absorbs most manufactured cotton and Japan buys when prices are favorable.
Dr Watt chief quarantine officer for British Columbia and Dr Montiambert director general of public health will tour Grosse Isle quarantine station and the Tracadie leper hospital to review operations as BC plans a new government hospital. Seventeen patients remain at Tracadie with seven Chinese lepers detained at Darcy Island for years while authorities arrange federal care.
In St. Louis L M Jones president of the Missouri Valley Improvement association says steamboats will be commissioned on the Missouri river to test feasible navigation. He confirms options on the City of Memphis and the Tennessee with trial trips likely within two weeks and talks of lease with buyout privilege.
Report from Guadalajara on Sept 2 states Hampson and Smith will bring 1000 Japanese laborers to the Manzanillo extension of the Mexican Central railway in October. Contractors discuss adding 2600 more Japanese workers, though native labor is rising and may meet construction needs after the rainy season.
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