Slit skirts provide feast for mosquitoes in Flushing Meadows incident
International News Service reports a wild mosquito parade after a Long Island Railroad train stalled near Flushing Meadows. Passengers, including stenographers and clerks, reportedly donned slit skirts as insects roamed the cars, then swarmed toward Flushing, delaying service on the Whitestone division due to a track fault and power loss.
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Culex
Flushing
Phoras
Psorophoras
Whitestone
Stick of Candy Sparks Long Romance and Wedding
Bay City Michigan August 9. Ruth Hill a twenty three year school teacher and George D Skelton a twenty four year mail carrier married after a childhood romance and four year courtship. They first met when Ruth was nine at a county fair. He walked two miles daily to escort her home for four years. They later reconciled after a three month separation and a creek incident during a picnic rescue. They will reside at Auburn a suburb of Bay City.
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George
Ruth
Auburn
Bay City
Chicago to Cut Funeral Costs With Electric Buses
Chicago plans to save on funerals by using storage battery buses as funeral cars replacing horse drawn carriages. Ten buses will start, reducing a typical twenty four person twelve mile service from sixty six to about thirty dollars. The scheme cites annual savings of about nine hundred thirty thousand dollars and features a coffin compartment, driver area, and glass partitions for rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Chicago
Ill
Funeral Coach Company
Benlett Lawson
Elmwood Cemetery
River Forest
Association of American Cemetery Superintendents
Lawson
Buffalo
Bees Roar at Market Street Ferry Collision
Two thousand bees in a shipping crate burst open near Market street ferry in Philadelphia. Crowds of commuters scattered as a tight chase ensued with a mounted officer and his horse stung. The crate pursued the Camden bound ferry and the danger risked halting ferry traffic for the day.
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Philadelphia
Market Street
Paulsboro
N. J
Lieut
Buehler
Camden
Man shaves without soap or razor strop in Indiana tale
Zaccheus Adams of Jackson township Fayette County prides himself on fifty four years of shaving with no shaving mug or razor strop. He uses a large Wade and Butcher cleaver as a razor and relies on rain water for cleansing. He boots his leather leg for preparation and shaves by his own hand, avoiding barbers and perfumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Adams
Will Part With Civil War Relic in Auction
Dalton Georgia August 9 James Barry plans to sell the whistle from the engine General used by Andrews Raiders and recaptured by Confederates. Barry once drove the engine on the Western and Atlantic line and kept the whistle for decades. Proceeds support the Decatur orphans home.
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Barry
Brown
Peruvian Plague Traced to Blood-Sucking Gnat
A Lima based report attributes verruga Peru’s dread disease to a bloodsucking gnat phlebotomus found at San Bartolome. The discovery notes the gnat’s rarity in Peru and contrasts its spread with ancient Peruvian tolls and a 1885 inoculation by Dr. Carrion.
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Pacific
Peru
Daniel A. Carrion
Cerro de Pasco
Lima
Townsend
San Bartolome
Guatemella
Mediterranean
Africa
Atlantic
Brazil
Rival cause of hubby's arrest.
A young Chicago clerk, Horace P. Sawyer, twenty four, was arrested in New York on embezzlement charges from the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago. Held without bail for extradition, Sawyer faced a courtroom confrontation as his bride, newlywed a week, cried for his release and vowed support.
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Sawyer
A. P. Sawyta
Chicago
Rolice
Halpin
Faurot
Donohue
St. Nicholas Avenue
Blackstone
Margaret Hamilton
Jersey City
Engagement Between Vandewater and Gillespie Off
Newburgh New York August 9 engagement between Miss Henrietta Vandewater and Lieut James E Gillespie announced earlier during his West Point cadet year is cancelled with no stated reason. Vandewater spends summer in Washington Depot Conn while Gillespie remains at his Virginia home awaiting assignment.
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Paris
Orange
Miss Duncan
Seine
Drayman
Dalton
B. Luscher & Son Paint CO
Dauphin St
Mobile Electric Co
N. Royal Street
Hubby
First National Bank Mobile
Alabam
Alabama
Purity Spring
J. E. Hein
Bell
Home
Pine Crest
Park
Mobile
American Securities Co
ST. Joseph Street
Miss Vandewater
Newa N. Y
Ames E. Gillespie
the Capital Security CO
National Bank OF Norfolk
Virginia
Bork
Hevy
Broadway
HH. Grecas
Comfort
Dauphin Street
Vahtt Drug Corporation Inc
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