Uncle Sam Tackles Cheese Hole Mystery and Food Purity
Friday August 9 1912 experts examine holes in cheese as dollars and cents to merchants. The aim is to apply drug and law rules to edible goods to ensure eggs sold are sound and sellers avoid prosecution for impure food. blame lies with the seller when eggs are bad.
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Uncle Sam
Tod Rome
The Quail Whistle and Nebraska Life
A fragmented meditation on the quail whistle and other sounds shaping Nebraska life. It links songbird protection laws to civic culture and contrasts it with the factory whistle and farmyard rhythms, emphasizing how sound marks seasons and sustains communities.
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Summmer
Cardinal
Canary
Nebraksa
Missionaries Seek to Protect Slave Girl Amid Tong War
In San Francisco, missionaries and Oregon authorities work to safeguard Oi Sen, a Chinese slave girl freed from Hop Sing Tong grip. Witnesses recount a brutal murder plot against Slain Seid Wah Bing and the killing of Wong Si Sam and Soo Soon, with threats against the girl and calls for vengeance by Tong members.
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San Francisco
Cal
Portland
Ore
O1 Sen
Hop Sing: Tong
Glain
Hop Sings
Ben
Wong Si Sam
Hop
Sing Tong
Seid Wah Bing
Sawee
Seid
Wong and
Soo
Facing Hardship and Loss in Hard Times
The speaker questions belief in joy amid constant misfortune. Many face bleak futures, with some reduced to working as human machines, dragging through life from dawn to dusk. Others lose jobs as work slows, lacking bank support and education, their desperation visible.
Portlands Highbinders Targeted in Threats to Witness
A woman warned she would be tortured and slain if she testified in court. She was told the crime would be fixed on her if she revealed what she knew. Authorities believe her testimony could convict the Soon brothers and possibly lead to more identifications in Portland.
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Sen
Soon Brothers
Portland
Girl Leaps Clear as Airplane Crashes
Mise Bernetta Muller of Canton Ohio and New York City had been trained only on the ground at Mineola Illinois as an aviation student. Tampered elevator bonds allowed the monoplane to surge upward during a test, sending the craft into the air. She jumped free just before the plane wrecked, escaping serious injury.
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New York
Mise Bernetta “Muller
Sixty-seventh Street
Canton
Mineola
IL. L
Mres. Muller
Governor Brown Uses Bible Verse On Death Penalty
Atlanta Georgia Governor Brown cites scripture whoso killeth any person the murderer shall be put to death to defend his stance against commuting death sentences for murderers. He emphasizes keeping capital punishment as the law.
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Atlanta
Brown
The Unlikely Informant on Cleveland Street R ailway Fight
A man seeking Cleveland street railway history hears city details from a shabby, unlikely local on the public square. Mayor Newton D. Baker had advised learning from the least likely source to uncover the full story, including what remains uncertain.
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Newton D. Baker
Cleveland
Mr. Baker
Stamps as Clues to Crime in Old Detective Tale
A veteran detective argues that how a person places postage stamps reveals character. He recalls tracking a swindler whose stamps were diagonally placed, creating a small triangle at the corner, a habit that betrayed him after months under vigilance.
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Diller, Neb
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First National Bank
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Bell
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