Red Rooster Wrecks Wagon in Alamo Collision
April 11 Alamo report of Henry Parsons a local farmer driving to market when his wagon hit a rut and a Buff Cochin rooster exploded ejecting chickent parts and splinters on the road Parsons was thrown from the seat and his team bolted the blast possibly caused by the rooster swallowing fulminate of mercury used for dynamite blasting leaving the scene in a run away escape for the team.
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Alamo
Cosen
Henry Parsons
Parsons
Boone
Racing for the World Market
An editorial argues high wages and shorter hours boost labor and education costs, warning the United States risks losing world markets to nations like Britain. It contends cheap labor is insufficient to secure competitiveness and urges stronger American labor standards to maintain trade position.
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China
India
Russia
Asia
Great Britain
Ashe
Sleeping sickness epidemic in America linked to somnolence
Dr Teverty A Tucker who died after studying cephalites lethargica led a Virginian State board of health committee to find a cause and cure. The illness, called epidemic somnolence, is not African fly bite related and was noted in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries and earlier in 1995.
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America
State Board of Health
Africa
Europe
United States
Lydia Pinkham Remedy Endorsed by Brooklyn Woman
A Brooklyn woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relieving a year of displacement related illness. The item also recounts doctor observations of an unusual sleep disorder evolving to somnolence and paralysis, noting noncontagious, base brain involvement with cases in Virginia Chicago and South America.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Lydia E Pinkham
Exate G. Lewis
Vernon Ave
Brooklyn, N. Y
Lewis
Lydia BK
Pinkham
Beaty Tries to Hire Doctor for Painfree Murder
April 11 at Omara Miss Gertrude Beaty 28 offered 1000 dollars in bills to Dr Willard Quigley to kill her without pain. He refused the money and told her to return later. When she did she was arrested.
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Omara
Gertrude Beaty
Willard Quigley
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