Women physicians join effort to teach poor health habits
At an Atlantic City medical association meeting a proposal urged New York and northern women doctors to cooperate in educating the poor to prevent disease. The plan emphasizes hygienic care, proper milk handling, and maternal instruction to uplift tenement communities and save the race.
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Medical Association
Atlantic City
Women Physicians
New York
North
Florida Times-Union
Oregon Law Balances Hunters and Hounds on Deer Chasing
The Oregon legislature made it a misdemeanor to kill a deer chased by dogs while prohibiting ranchers from killing the pursuing hounds. Proponents say hounds protect deer by driving off predators, as wildcats slaughter fawns and many deer are lost to predators more than hunters.
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Oregon
Alaska Water Ditch Sparks Mighty Klondike Gold Boom
A completed Klondike ditch is set to supply water for the world’s largest hydraulic mining. Dawson anticipates firms could extract between 1 and 3 billion dollars from the gravel over the next decade, transforming Alaska from a doubted land to a major resource region.
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Alaska
Klondike
Dawson
Wrights Fall Short Of Bleriot In Air Travel Praise
The Wrights at Fort Myer show cautious experiments above the parade ground while M Bleriot’s English channel flight dominates public imagination. The monoplane is praised as a practical aerial navigation machine and the English pay hearty tribute to the French aviator.
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Wrights
Fort Myer
M. Bleriot
English Channel
Wisconsin
Ohio man grows potatoes with no tops in new patch
A few years ago agriculuturists grafted tomatoes on potato vines to yield two crops. The experiment failed. Now an Ohio man reports growing potatoes without any tops, with bulbs the size of a hen's egg and no sprouts.
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Ohio
Paris doctor advocates removing large intestine from children
The Philadelphia Telegraph reports a Paris physician proposes removing the large intestine from every child before age three to eradicate germs. The idea is treated as a sweeping scientific principle, with examples of limbs or organs amputated for various maladies.
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Paris
Philadelphia Telegraph
Peary Reveals North Pole Voyage In Early Summary
The New York Times published Commander Peary's summary of the 1908 1909 arctic expedition. It details the Roosevelt voyage from New York to Cape Sheridan and the sledging march to the pole, noting open water delays and the drowning of Prof. Marvin.
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North Pole
New York Times Company
United States
Europe
The
Robert E. Peary
Charles R. Miller
Battle Harbor
Labrador
Ray
Peary Arctic Club
Roosevelt
New York
Sydney
Cape York
Greenland
Etah
Cape Sheridan
Grant Land
Cape Columbia
Eighty-Fourth Parallel
Eighty-Fifth Parallel
Eighty-Sixth Parallel
Eighty-Eighth Parallel
Eighty-Ninth Parallel
Cape Sabine
Indian Harbor
Prof
Ross G. Marvin
Polar
Arctic Ocean
Erik
Pole
Foregoing Dispatch Outlines Leading Facts From Scientist Dispatch
The condensed special dispatch from New York notes the main facts observed by a scientist, member of the American Geographical Society, with copyright by the New York Times in 1909.
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American Geographical Society
New York Times
New York
English Skylarks Released Across Puget Sound Woods
Dr. Charles McCutcheon of Tacoma maintains a private aviary rearing European song birds and releasing them in Washington forests. Since five years, 50 birds of each variety were imported from Liverpool and 500 birds of seven varieties released this spring to address the shortage of singing birds in the Puget Sound region.
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Charles McCutcheon
Tacoma
Europe
Northwest
McCutcheon
England
Puget Sound
Cascade Mountains
Liverpool
The Cause of the Shrinkage
A humorous exchange explains Mabel’s bathing suit shrinking to unusability because it was washed with the spit wash. The line playfully notes she did not swim, yet the garment shrank from the cleaning method.
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Mabel
Death of Harriman Sparks Record Stock Rally
New York reports confirm Edward H. Harriman died of cancer as his railroad empire remains intact. The New York Stock Exchange saw a dramatic rally with volume surpassing 1,500,000 shares and Union Pacific and Southern Pacific leading the gain. London and Berlin markets also reflected strength in Harriman affiliated securities.
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New York
N. Y
Edward H. Harriman
New York Stock Exchange
London
Berlin
Harriman
Union Pacific Common
Southern Pacific
Loss and Damage Bill Large
Railroads of the United States paid about 56.7 million dollars for loss and damage and injuries to persons for the year ending June 30, 1908. The figure shows an 8.441 million increase from the prior year. Statistics indicate injuries payments rose 254 percent from 1897 to 1907 and loss and damage 437 percent while gross railroad earnings rose 130 percent in the same period.
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Chicago
Illinois
United States
Bureau of Railway News and Statistics
City Votes Higher Fines Under Liquor Ordinance
Atchison Kansas city council passes an ordinance increasing penalties for liquor law violations. Police judge can fine between 100 and 500 dollars and impose jail terms from one to six months. Prohibits sale of malt hop tea two per cent Rosenbrew tin top health a tone or any drink containing alcohol.
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Atchison
Kansas
Not as it Once Was in Leavenworth
Leavenworth Kansas district court Judge William Dill disposed of several liquor cases. Four men pleaded guilty and each fined 200 dollars and jailed 60 days. Two more defendants were fined 200 dollars and jailed 60 days. Parole was denied and they were sent to prison. J W Mallody stood trial and was convicted.
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Leavenworth
Kansas
William Dill
J. W.mallody
Farmers Hold Wheat In Salind As Prices Rise
Salind Kansas farmers keep the crop off the market awaiting prices at or above one dollar per bushel while current bids run 88 cents. Threshing is nearly finished and the marketing of grain has slowed. Farmers show unprecedented independence this year.
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Salind
Kansas
Cook Outfit on Arctic Voyage Vessel
Gloucester report states the schooner John R. Bradley carried over 20000 dollars in supplies for Dr. Frederick A. Cook including pemmican and western wood. Benjamin A. Smith, the outfitter, claims the items were specially suitable as pledges.
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Cook
Gloucester
Massachusetts
John R. Bradley
Frederick A. Cook
Arctic
Benjamin A. Smith
Harvester Case Postponed in Missouri
Jefferson City Missouri due to the absence of Commissioner Brace the testimony in the ouster suit of the attorney general against International Harvester company of America set for Tuesday September 14 is postponed to September 29.
Corn Exports Rise While Wheat and Flour Drop
U S export data show August corn shipments doubled from the prior year while wheat exports fell to less than half and wheat flour exports edged up slightly from August last year.
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Washington, D. C
United States
It Was His Way and Other Wit from an Era
A Kansas farmer recalls eavesdropping on the neighbors line with a sly boast about how he avoids being listened to. The piece includes a joke about his own receiver never clicking and a quip about listening devices. The column ends with a humor ad for Hamlins Wizard Oil claiming it eases tired feet at night.
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Kansas
Kansas City Journal
Are Your Clothes Faded Use Red Cross Ball Blue
An old fashion ad suggests using Red Cross Ball Blue to whiten clothes. Mentions a large 2 oz package priced at 5 cents and notes caution about a girl's string of beaux growing weak if she has too many suitors.
Patent remedies and mock claims in a caustic ad blur
The clumsy souvenir ad promotes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething with dubious effects and a Dr Pierce's Pellets claimed to regulate stomach and bowels. A remark on cross bred dogs and a moral aside about guilty consciences rounds out the fragment.
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Dr. Pierce
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