Bryn Mawr Closed by Scarlet Fever
Three Scarlet fever cases among 400 Bryn Mawr College students in Philadelphia area prompt temporary college closure. Lectures suspended for ten days. Pembroke and Denbigh halls and infirmary quarantined. Some students return home, others stay to avoid losing Easter vacation. Dormitories to be fumigated. strict quarantine to continue.
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R. F. Mason
Pembroke Hall
Elizabeth Faries
Denbigh Hall
Thomas F. Branson
Bryn Mawr Hospital
Lower Merion Board of Health
Cigarette Smoker Takes Own Life in New York Home
Emil Senius, a young insurance agent and heavy cigarette smoker, refused a pipe urged by his father and died by inhaling gas at his home just before midnight. He was threatened by consumption and had a history of cigarette use.
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Associated Press
New York
Emil Senius
Cunard Shows Strong Travel Growth and Solid Profits
London April 7 The Cunard company reports solid travel gains in first and second class and more cabin passengers than any year since formation. Total profits for the year reach 994149 pounds after tax and charges, with 100000 pounds set for uninsured marine risk provision and a 5 percent dividend recommended. The old insurance fund moves to reserve, and 130000 pounds is paid to sinking fund for stock redemption under the government agreement.
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London
Cunard Company
Uncle Sam Believes in Good Paint and Wall Paper
Claim of patriotic preference for home decor items from McDonald’s at 322 E Houston Street. Purchases include paints wallpapers pictures and frames.
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Uncle Sam
McDonald's
Houston Street
Women Artists 10 Press for London Academy
Move to establish a women academy in London protests Royal Academy exclusion of women. No female artist has joined the Royal Academy or attained associateship, amid debates on sex bias.
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London
Royal Academy
Angelina Kauffman
Butler
Elizabeth Thompson
Paris
Buckingham Palace
Miss Canziani
Mme. Starr-Canziani
George Gibb
Road Board
Rathskeller in San Antonio Opens for Long Hours
The only Rathskellar in San Antonio runs from noon to midnight offering taxicab service and a deli with short orders. Elite Cafe is also mentioned in connection with the same listing.
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San Antonio
Dr Miles Nervine Helps Rheumatism Sufferer
A patient describes crippling inflammatory rheumatism and months in hospital. After starting Dr Miles Nervine with salicylate of soda, pain lessens and mobility returns, with a guarantee and drugstore availability.
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Miles’ Nervine
Ee Sanders
P. O. Box
Ockaway
N. J
Miles
Woman Presides Over Colorado House
Agnes L. Riddle, owner of a large dairy, served as chair of Colorado's house during a fierce child labor debate. Republican and recalled passes foe, she balances farm work, family and lawmaking from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Daily travel six miles to Denver.
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Denver
Colo
Agnes L. Riddle
House of Representatives of
Colorado
Riddle
Colorado Grange
Widow forbids burial to save wife from burial alive
Mrs. Mary Abbott, widow of Henry Abbott, died after completing forty daily visits to her husband's vault as his will required. Abbott, a Chester Rural Cemetery director, had left $150,000 to his widow with a codicil delaying burial to prevent a similar fate. The estate reverts to his children by a first wife.
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Chester
Mary Abbott
Henry Abbott
Abbott
Mr. Abbott
Chester Rural Cemetery Company
Philadelphia
Cam
Questions of Precedence Between Unions in Chicago
In Chicago on April 7 President Samuel Gompers faces a long standing quarrel between the Bakery and Confectionery Workers union and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters over bakery wagon drivers who are members of the bakers union. Teamsters seek to classify the drivers as members and transfer them, while the drivers insist they are salesmen more than drivers.
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Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Bakery and Confectionery Workers Union
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Gompers
Chicago
Bakers Union
Teamsters Union
Teamsters
Secretary defends Texas battleship destruction and animal tests
Secretary of the Navy Meyer defends destroying the old battleship Texas and explains for humane societies that no animals suffered during shell experiments. The Texas was nearly worthless, obsolete, with weak guns and poor protection, deemed a death trap if used in combat. Tests used dumb animals to study explosive shells, with claims that no harm came to most, though a cat disappeared.
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Washington, D. C
Meyer
Texas
San Marcos
Perkins
New Hampshire
Naval Committee
House
Humane Societies
Boston
New York
Waits for His Bride in Cross-River Kentucky Wedding
Oscar Mullins and Miss Bessie Van Hook of Pulaski county Ky married at 12 10 a m in Jeffersonville Ind after waiting since Monday for her eighteenth birthday. They were told license needed parental consent but arranged for her to stay with Magistrate True until today and wed one minute past midnight.
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Associated Press
Louisville
Oscar Mullins
Bessie van Hook
Pulaski County
Jeffersonville
Ind
Ohio River
Miss van Hook
Rexall 93 Hair Tonic Sold At Wagner's Drug Store
An advertisement touts Rexall 93 Hair Tonic as a cleansing antiseptic promoting hair health, by stimulating circulation and dandruff removal. It promises satisfaction with a money back offer and notes two sizes priced 50 cents and 1 dollar at The Rexall Store Wagner's Drug Store Hicks Elde.
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S.S
S. S
S.S.S
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Rexall
Wagner’s
Hicks Elde
Kissing bride shocks New Rochelle officials in ceremony
In New Rochelle New York on April 7 Miss Bertha Easton Barber of New London Conn and Tyler Council McNamara and John O'Brien Jr. joined in marriage with Judge Powers presiding. The bride kissed the judge and Mr O'Brien while the groom watched as a kiss spree erupted in city offices. The incident drew praise and jest from local officials and staff amid the license and ceremony.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
Bertha Easton Barber
New London
R. McKinley Powers
Harry E. Colwell
eGorge H. C. Lischke
William J. McAloon
City withholds arbor day trees to curb slippery sidewalks
New York officials reject planting 25,000 catalpa trees along streets for Arbor Day. They warn that spring blooms make sidewalks slippery and dangerous to pedestrians, despite the gift to schoolchildren.
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Associated Press
New York
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