Blue Paint and Hop Vines May Fend Off Flies
Dr. H J Crumbine Kansas secretary of health reports two methods to keep flies from kitchens and barns. Blue paint or paper on walls and doors may deter flies and hops grown around doorways are being tested. The experiment includes observing homes with blue interiors and comparing infestation rates.
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Topeka
Kan
J. Crumbine
State Board of Health
France
Marie
Dr. Crumbine
India
Crumbine
Fire Chief’s auto pays for itself saving city from fires
The Locomobile used by Fire Chief Phil Wright in San Antonio has responded to 1175 alarms since joining seven months ago. It has saved life and property, extinguished fires in their incipiency, and is credited with preventing losses exceeding half a million dollars while outperforming horse drawn units.
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Wright
Houston
Soledad Streets
William A. Davis
Chicago Boulevard
Mr. Davis
Burns
Phil Wright
San Antonio
United States
Texas
Leona Street
Avenue D
M. J. Patterson
A. Shumway
Maverick-Clarke Litho Company
Soledad Street
Hugh M. Miles
James Shull
Miles
Beacon for Liners tallest Broadway building planned
New York May 6 work has begun on a 55 story Broadway tower between Park Place and Barclay Street. The 750 foot structure, with a 366 foot central lantern, will house shops, banking and offices and be fire proof with 16 elevators and a spiral stairway to the lantern. Built for Broadway Park Place company led by F W Woolworth, designed by Cass Gilbert, cost estimated at 12.8 million dollars.
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New York
Broadway
Park Place
Barclay Street
Broadway Park Place Company
F. W. Woolworth
Stewart
Cass Gilbert
Pardon for Dead Man in West Virginia
Governor Glasscock pardoned Gordon Ayers of McDowell County who was serving a life term for murder. Ayers died a few days after the pardon papers arrived at the penitentiary in May 1908, leaving officials unaware the act applied to a deceased inmate. Ayers was 31 and had suffered tuberculosis in prison.
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Moundsville
W. Va
W. E. Glasscock
Gordon Ayers
McDowell County
Ayers
Pierson
Glasscock
Alpine deaths rise to near hundred yearly average
The Austrian and German Alpine clubs report 886 alpinists killed in the Central Alps from 1901 to 1910, averaging nearly 100 deaths per year. In 1909 there were 144 fatalities and in 1910 one hundred, excluding 28 who died while picking edelweiss.
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Geneva
Alps
Europe
Edelweiss
Board of Health Orders Sanitary Materials Sale
The Board of Health requires all citizens to obtain sanitary wall paper enamels and rushes from Mc Donald's Art Store located at 322 E Houston Street. Theo Artzt's orchestra is listed with both phones.
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McDonald's Art Store
Houston Street
Theo. Artzt
Nothing Romantic Hunts for a Flat in May Day Stroll
The Louisville Courier Journal notes a light mood as a speaker jokes about locating a flat during a May day outing. It mentions Dr. Sarah F. Herdmann, osteopath, Gibbs building, and provides a new phone number 3055 for Rea.
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Sarah F. Herdmann
Osteopath
Gibbs
Rea
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