Meningitis death of NIH assistant linked to lab work
Miss Anna Pabst a young laboratory assistant at the National Institute of Health died after an inoculation mishap during a meningitis workup. She contracted meningitis in line of duty when a culture splashed into her eye, collapsing Christmas night as she moved to Emergency Hospital. Police report burglaries at Puritan laundry and a ransacked home, while a Woolworths manager says $800 was stolen from a downtown cash table by an early visitor.
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Swarrington
D. G
Anna Pabst
Young Laboratory
National Institute of Health
Miss Pabst
Dallas
Dev
Woolworth
Downtow
H. M. Lindsley
Lindsley
Red pacification treaty by Sam Houston with Cherokees
Sam Houston and commissioners negotiated with Cherokee leaders Bowles and Big Mush near Nacogdoches to quiet threats by granting a vast land title along the Sabine, Neches, and the San Antonio road. The agreement, made before Texas independence, aimed to secure peace with tribes and deter Mexican influence.
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Sam Houston
Texas
Houston
Forbes
Bowles
Big Mush
Coud
Nacogdoches
New Orleans Grays
Baches
Mexico
Grays
Adolphus Sterne
United States
Jackson
Sterne
Andy
San Antonio
Republic of Texas
Bexar Pupils Join Massed Singing For Centennial
Bexar county rural students are being trained to take part in massed singing as part of the Texas Centennial celebration. R. W. May, Bexar school superintendent, says all 61 schools in the county are stressing music this year. Plans by state officials to assemble massed choruses of 25,000 or more in larger cities may be varied. Miss Nell Parmley, state director of any Art in the schools, has planning programs for the Centennial.
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Bexar County
R. W. May
Bexar
Nevby
May
Texas
Nell Parmley
Winter Party of Optimists Saturday in Sar Antonia
The annual winter party of the Sar Antonia Optimist club will be held at the home of Max Sandfield 111 West Laurel Street Saturday night. Prine Hasan, for vine teller, will appear.
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Optimists
Sar
Antonia Optimist Club
Max Sandfield
West
Laurel Streat
Prine Hasan
Forvine Teller
Hunting Trip Supports Venison County Judge Woodhull
Judge Woodhull after venison hunt with Webb County judge Frost Yoodhutst and bowman Jim Ellison reported a hunting outing in Webb County on Thursday. Treasury data show December 23 receipts of 16,041.62 dollars, expenditures 417,879,260.37, balance 2,291,400,585.03, customs receipts for the month 23,528,404.24, fiscal year receipts 31,368,235,993.12 with total expenditures 3,651,304,297.27 including 1599,176,612.90 emergency, net proceeds 30,943,893,325.94, and a gold price reading of 10,109,231,564.08.
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Treasury
Washington, D. C
Quake Toll in China Mounts in Szechuan
Reports from Chengtu indicate an earthquake on December 18 in southern Szechuan province swept villages from mountain slopes with inhabitants killed. Officials fear deaths may reach thousands as landslides dam rivers, forming lakes and splitting terrain near the Maplen district. Primitive Cotu tribespeople perched on mountain tops were swept into valleys.
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Chengtu
Szechuan
China
Szerauan
Maplen
Locomotive Merrymaker Borrows Engine for Christmas Ride
In Mattoon Illinois on December 24 Maurice Spurn, 32, reportedly borrowed an Illinois Central locomotive. He drove the engine through yards with the throttle wide open, crashing into a freight locomotive and getting injured as a wrecking crew freed him.损
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Merrymaker
Mattoon
INS
Dez
Maurice Spurn
Illinois Central
Maurice
McCormick's Office Gifts Looted in Theft
McCormick reported to deputies that his district clerk office was robbed of Christien gifts including cigars cigarettes liquor a vanity case a den and pencil set and five dollars. The brief notes mention city actions and a judgment payment of 4611.28 to Special Assessment Securities Corp against the city by Judge Harry Le Howard.
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McCormick
Special Assessment Securities Corporation Agaist
City Oy
Harry le Howard
Protestant unity plea warns of Protestant collapse
Twenty nine leaders of a move ment to unite Protestant Episcopal churches in America with the Maham Catholic church appeal clergymen for support. The American committee of the Church Unity Octave council criticizes Protestantism as bankrupt ethically and morally and urges Christians to rally around Route as the center of resistance against a perceived Christian onslaught in Russia Mexico Spain and Germany.
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New York
America
Church Unity Octave Council
Russia
Mexina
Spain
Germany
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John Sameron
Raven
Washington, D.C
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Ite
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