Opium Crusade Moves Toward Global Regulation
A long campaign led by the United States advances toward a world-wide crackdown on opium and other habit forming drugs. International conferences at Shanghai and The Hague lay groundwork for uniform laws, restricted production, and controlled distribution with nations including the United States, China, Britain, France, Germany, and Japan committing to action.
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China
Orient
United States
Uncle Sam
Pacific
Philippines
Congress of
Far East
Great Britain
France
Holland
Siam
Shanghai
Hai
Hague
Netherlands
Universal Postal Union
Germany
Italy
Japan
Persia
Portugal
Russia
Austria-Hungary
Chine
Yer
Indus Flood Devastates Dera Ghazi Khan Town
The Indus River slowly eroded and destroyed Dera Ghazi Khan over four years, wiping out most of the town including the houses and orchards. Inhabitants have scattered to nearby trading centers or moved to Chorutta, near Ghazi Khan's tomb, seeking new beginnings.
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Indus
Dera Ghazi Khan
Punjaub
Ghazi Khan
Kalhoras
Strar
Kalabagh
Sukkur
Sind
Baluchistan
Khwaja Khizar
Chorutta
Baluch Hills
California treasure tale of Civil War hid treasure
J K Anderson of New Orleans brings a family legend to Los Angeles about a fortune buried in Placer county California by his Confederate veteran father. The elder miner allegedly hid gold beneath an old adobe tavern near Long Valley between Newcastle and Auburn and lost memory for fifty years after a bullet wound. Anderson seeks the buried treasure with the permission of tavern owners now farming citrus.
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Hfe
Los Angeles
J. K. Anderson
New Orleans
van Nuys
Old Placer
California
Los Angeles Herald
Anderson
Placer County
Auburn
Newcastle
Long Valley
Panama Canal
Placer
Trained Nurse Snoring Tales Highlight Hospital Strain
London Tit-Bits recounts a nurse who learns snoring can endanger patients and her own career. The nurse recalls a case that demanded wakefulness and a fatal sleep that led to tension with a nervous patient and his anxious sister. She contemplates lighter work but stays cautious about demanding shifts.
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New York Times
James
London
Braggs Claims Record-Breaking Maine Bear
Braggs writes from Maine that he has shot the biggest bear on record, prompting disbelief that only a monster could achieve such a feat.
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Braggs
Maine
Boston Transcript
Harmless deception in installing new rector
The Pittsburg Dispatch reports Rev. Howard Chandler Robbins received a church key during his installation as rector of the Church of the Incarnation. Bishop Greer officiated and preached. The presented key unlocked a seldom used East side cemetery gate, a joke yet the sexton likely holds a real key.
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Howard Chandler Robbins
Church of the Incarnation
Pittsburg
Bishop Greer
Francis Lynda Stetson
Greer
East Side
Parlor Fisherman Debate Sparks Trout File Names
Dialogue questions whether a man truly fishes while claiming knowledge of a broad set of trout files. The exchange suggests skepticism about claimed multitasking between leisure fishing and cataloging in-depth fish records.
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Asia
Roosevelt
Charles H. Brent
Elihu Root
Shang
Colum
Maneteg
Scott
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