Quarantine Edict Sparks Ire Over Smallpox Controls
City health department imposes vaccination based quarantines in hundreds of homes. Exposed children must stay inside until two weeks after last contact. Parents argue for air and exercise as disease prevention. Dr. Brown notes vaccination reduces school cases. Lafayette school vaccination ends today unless new cases arise. Rotary club hears Prof. J A de Hass on Beattle Tan a free port.
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City Health Department
M. Read
Tra C. Brown
Lafayette
Study Flowers for Beauty Says Miss Edith Hyde
Miss Edith Hyde urges reading and admiring flowers to develop artistic sense and happiness. She notes humble flowers can be as beautiful as tropical varieties and recommends keeping blooms in the room to brighten mornings and evenings.
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Edith Hyde
Wilson Crown Prince rumor shocks Washington
The Vienna Bulletin reports a legend in Lower Austria that President Woodrow Wilson is the reincarnated Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria, murdered in 1899. Rural residents doubt official death accounts and speculate Wilson as Austria’s future leader in a German Austrian republic.
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Vienna Bulletin
Rotterdam
Lower Austria
Wilson
Rudolph of
Austria
Baden
Neue Wiener Journal
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Vecscern
Woodrow Wilson
United States of America
Rudolph
National Assembly
Farmer builds two mile fence from junk bed posts
Shawnee county farmer William T. Stock stacks more than two miles of fence using old bed rails bought from Topeka junk dealers. He paid 6 to 70 cents each and claims a permanent fence saving about 200 dollars. Stock buys junk through yard shopping and even crafts an auto trailer from a spring wagon and salvaged parts.
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Topeka
Kan
Shawnee County
William T. Stock
Stock
Tall Figure in Black Puzzles Syracuse Residents
A mysterious tall woman in black, seen only after dusk near the new vocational high school, has drawn crowds in Syracuse. Reportedly she appears from the ground and vanishes when approached, with scores claiming sightings in the night and early morning.
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Syracuse
N. Y
New Vocational High School
Discharged Soldiers Bonus Form Offer From Washington
A wartime notice offers discharged soldiers a $90 or $60 bonus under a February 24 1918 act. It instructs applicants to sign, attach discharge papers, and mail to the Zone Finance Officer in Lemon Building Washington DC. Directions urge pencil names and county auditor copies as substitutes.
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Washington
Lemon Building
Washington, D.C
WAR Department
Gold Cache Sought Beneath Store Floor
In a New York cellar near Hudson and Duane streets a treasure hunt unfolds after John Henry Dayton, longtime Wood & Selick engineer, left 7 375 dollars in gold to his widow, hidden beneath the basement floor of 36 Hudson Street where Wood & Selick imported and exported food products.
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New York
Hudson
Duane Wets
John Henry Dayton
Wood & Selick
Hudson St
Food Producta
Prin
Mail for Yankees in Russia Is Lost
San Francisco reports a mail steamer carrying 38 sacks of mail for American units in Northern Russia has sunk. The loss affects 839th infantry 210th engineers and medical units. Mail originated across the United States and accumulated in New York between November 9 and 18 last year.
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San Francisco
Russia
Charles W. Fay
839Th Infantry
210Th Engineers
United States
New York
Uncovered Treasure Hints Spur Confectionery Makers
Fragments describe a legendary treasure linked to confectioners and bakery use. Despite efforts, investigators have not located the treasure, leaving questions about its origin and purpose unresolved.
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Cipally
Woman Saved Much Suffering in West Plains
Mrs Hall of West Plains Missouri credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with saving her life by relieving chronic health issues including indigestion cramps and monthly suffering after trying multiple doctors and remedies. The testimonial urges other women to seek the remedy to avoid risk to health.
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West Plains
Lydia E. Pinkham
Coma Ler Hart
West Plains, Mo
Wireless phones installed for brokers at Montreal board of trade
Montreal April 2 wireless telephones are being installed in the offices of the Montreal board of trade. The system will let brokers talk with Kingston Ottawa Three Rivers and Quebec enhancing rapid communication across major markets.
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Montreal
Montreal Board of Trade
Kingston
Ottawa
Three Rivers
Quebec
Cunard Liner Arrives with 5000 U S Troops in New York
Captain J T W Charles of the Aqui tiana proclaims the crew has hosted over 5000 perfect gentlemen as the Cunard liner docks in New York carrying 5000 American Expeditionary Force members.
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J. T. W. Charles
Cunard
New York
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