Microbe Special educates public on germ dangers
Dr Dowling and Miss Agnes Morris tour New Urbans with the Microbe Special exhibit to illustrate disease risks from flies and contaminated foods. Demonstrations show a guinea pig’s death from germs, wax tracks, and dye tests to warn against unsanitary habits and the need for clean air, foods, clothing, and personal hygiene.
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Chicago
Lee
Alicrobe
Omciais
State Board Or Health of
Louiisiaracy
Sieties
Theoes
Iin Iowa
Bedi
Ear Dowlir
Chagro
Los Angeles
Agnes Morris
Miss Morris
Angling Editor Seizes Giant Sixteen-Pound Carp
Hugh T. Sheringham of the Field likely catches the carp of his life in Highbury Angling Society waters at Cheshunt Reservoir. The fish weighed sixteen pounds five ounces, measured thirty inches long and twenty one inches in girth, providing a thrilling display of rod and line sport. Earlier reports of a fifteen pound carp from Tiverton canal were false, shot by mistake for a pike.
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TL Andcon
Hugh T. Sheringham
Highbury
Tiverton
Devon
Night Intruder Baffles Farm Family in Roof Lull
A farm family awakened by noises from the roof found an intruder at work in the barn. Hoover, asleep in the house, narrowly avoided injury when a hammer dropped on his foot during the disturbance. Tin work and meticulous craft were observed throughout the site.
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Hoover
Hinaver
Judge Orders Gum Removed Then Witness Swallows It
In Aften, Judge Staples presiding in Monroe county court, told a witness to stop chewing gum. The witness swallowed the wad when asked to remove it, causing the courtroom to erupt in laughter as the judge repeated the command.
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Aften
Staples
Monroe County
Scott
Locust Swarms Spread Far Across Strandsburg Area
County correspondents report 17 year locust swarms affecting the west end of the Strandsburg region. Animals feast on the insects as farmers and birds contend with disrupted fields and livestock, while groundhogs and ducks accumulate locusts to feed, and locals observe the air darkened by the vast swarms.
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Strandsburg
Brooadheldsville
Weir Mountain
Polk Township
McMichael
Peter Koehler
Ross Township
Braced nerve with smoke saves brakeman after fall
Woodstock Virginia Henry Fadeley a brakeman on a southern freight fell from a moving train at Strasburg Junction and crushed a foot requiring amputation. He applied a tourniquet from his suspenders to stop bleeding and smoked cigarettes while waiting for help after the train reached the end.
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Woodstock
Henry Fadeley
Southern
Fadeley
Strasburg Junction
What if Dickinson Had Been Lincoln’s Running Mate
Thurlow Weed recalls a 1864 bid to nominate Daniel S Dickinson for vice president with Lincoln and muses that his addition could have altered postwar history. Edwards interviews Weed and recounts Dickinson's oratory, wartime activism, and the 1864 convention context.
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Thurlow Weed
Daniel S. Dickinson
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Connecticut
Goshen
Mr. Weed
Henry Ward Beecher
Beecher
Dickinson
United States
New York
Franklin Pierce
Daniel
New York State
Andrew Johnson
Johnson
E. J. Edwards
Robert Shaw Led First Negro Regiment Frontline Charge
The article recalls Colonel Robert G. Shaw the Massachusetts-born leader of the Seventh New York and the first northern state regiment of Black soldiers. It notes his service beginning with the Seventh, later leading the first negro regiment from Massachusetts, and his death at Fort Wagner in 1863. Shaw’s father chose to bury him with his fallen soldiers.
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Robert G. Shaw
Massachusetts
Seventh
New York Regiment
Broadway
New York
Lincoln
North
Shaw
Second
New York City
George William Curtis
Colonel Shaw
Robert Shaw
Staten Island
Seventh Regiment
Robert
Andrew
Boston
Harvard
Fort Wagner
South Carolina
E. J. Edwards
Logan's Senate Pacing Precedes Porter Speech
In 1860s debates over General Porter the stalled bill and Grant's justice, Senator Logan paced the Senate back and forth as he spoke against a bill to clear Porter. Senator Ingalls admitted Logan was thinking, and his ensuing speech proved powerful and persuasive.
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Kansan
Senator Logan
Irnnt
Fregichn Porter
Thu Fun
Porter
United States
Grant
Congress
Arthur
Cleveland
United States Army
Fitzjohn Forter
Senate
General Grant
General Porter
John A. Logan
Illinois
Logan
Ingalls
Kansas
John Logan
Pram
Senator Ingalls
E. J. Fdawards
Measuring Raindrops at a Royal Meteorological Society Meeting
Mr. Spencer C. Russell presented methods to record actual raindrop sizes using plaster in shallow trays. Across six storms 164 drops were measured, with 25 at five millimeters, 40 at four, 48 at three, 35 at two, and 15 at one millimeter. largest drops appeared early, then diminished as storms progressed, with hail foreshadowing larger drops.
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Spencer C. Russell
British
Royal Meteorological Society
Paris
New York Man Has Will Drafted by His Twelve Year Old Son
Comic piece reports a New York man whose will was written by his 12 year old son. Lawyers search for a way to break the document. The gag highlights legal friction over child drafted wills.
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New York
Life Rings on Mountains
An article describes the San Francisco peaks as a miniature Earth climate scene in vertical bands. It notes the 7,000-foot plateau base, concentric vegetation zones, and dominant tree species by elevation from yellow pine to Douglas fir and Engelmann spruce at higher altitudes.
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San Francisco
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Maine
WRECI
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