Radium Treatment for Cancer Shown Successful in Baltimore
Congressman G Bremner of New Jersey received radium implants in his left shoulder at Johns Hopkins. Dr Howard Kelly inserted two and a half inch tubes to target cancer cells, with operations timed and repeated as doctors assess the outcome. If progress continues, this radioactive therapy could mark a turning point in cancer treatment.
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Baltimore
G. Bremner
New Jersey
Howard ‘Kelly
Johns Hopkins
Bremner
Montreal Faces Water Shortage Amid Citywide Famine
The Montreal water system suffers a major shortage as the city relies on carts to deliver water to hospitals and residents. Officials warn repairs may take ten days to fix a sixty inch main, prompting officials to consider factory shutdowns to conserve scarce supply.
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Real
Pricon
Mon
Lavellee
Montreal Water Ho- Power Company
Civic Department
Special Session of School Board to Choose Tech and Plan Construction
The board will convene soon under President T Hartwell to select a contractor and lay plans for building projects funded by recently credited bond money. Funds will finance replacements for Russell and Semmes Schools, modernization of Barton Academy, and a new school in the east portion of the city.
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T. Hartwell
Rct
Tech
Russelle and Semmes
Barton Academy
Bombing aimed to kill Dowager Empress and Grand Duchess
Rostock police believe the dynamite device placed under the Russian imperial railway train at Rostock was intended to kill Dowager Empress Marie and Grand Duchess Xenia who arrived soon after the explosion. Russian officials reportedly dispatched czarist secret service spies to hunt the would-be assassins.
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Copenhagen
Rostock
Marie
Xenia
Deaths and Funerals Mrs. C. Green in Mobile
Mrs Catharine Green widow of Love Green oyster man died after a brief illness at 612 Augusta Street Mobile where she had lived forty five years born Point Clear Alabama. She leaves two daughters Hattie Pfeiffer St Louis and Leonora Meyer Mobile two sons Albert Green Longshore Local president and Ward Green. Funeral Sunday with interment Magnolia cemetery.
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Catherine Green
Love Green
Augusta Street
Point Clear
Ala
Mobile
Hattie Green Pfeiffer
St. Louis
Leonora Green Meyer
Burial of Mrs Minnie Clark Strachauer
Funeral services for Mrs Minnie Clark Strachauer were held Friday at 3 PM from Dixon and McKay parlors with Rev D A Planck of Central Presbyterian officiating. Pallbearers included Alex Hancock and James Wade.
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M. C. Strachauer
Minnie “Clark
Stra
Hog Attacks Infant as Hog Strays into Home
A six month old baby in River Falls near Spartanburg was left alone when a loose hog entered the house and overturned the crib. The hog dragged the child into the yard before a passerby stopped the attack, injuring the baby including an ear bite.
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Spartanburg
8. C
John Reynolds
River Falls
Here
Co operative farming proposal ends in English women weddings
Edmonton, Dec 27. Henry Howes of Bristol plans a co operative farming colony near Edmonton within fifty miles. Women from England Ireland and Scotland would manage milch cows poultry and gardens. Cupid caused several marriages. the colony dissolved and profits split among six women after the farm was sold.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Henry Howes
Bushby Park
Bristol
England
Women’s Co-operative Farming Society, Ltd
Canada
Industrial and Provident Societies Act of England
George M. Hall
Ireland
Scotland
Dan Cupid
Boy Killed In Family Tragedy In Portland
Norris W. Rowe of West Buxton died from a bullet wound in Portland after his 12 year old son Leon fired in what he said was defense of his mother who was ill in bed. The father allegedly seized the mother by the throat and threatened to kill her and their five children.
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Associated Press
Portland
Ore
Norris W. Rowe
West Buxton
Leon
Highwaywoman Foiled By Scranton Officer
In Sunbury on December 27 a Scranton cable operator named Harold K. Jones hailed a stranger for a light is accosted and forced to surrender. Jones feigns obedience then springs and knocks the highwayman, a woman, to the ground dupa hat comes off and a confession reveals the man’s disguise. Jones gives the woman $2 and does not alert authorities.
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SU Nbury
Harold K. Jones
Scranton
Jones
Train wreck claims brakeman on Seventeen Mile Grade
A 66 car freight train broke away on the Seventeen-mile grade west of Cumberland, derailed 31 cars and killed H. P. Kirkpatrick a brakeman from Keyser West Virginia. The runaway freight moved downhill from the top of the grade before derailing at the first switch.
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Associated Press
Cumberland
Here
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
H. P. Kirkpatrick
Keyser
West Virginia
Landslide Crash Kills Two on Local Rail Line
In Tennessee near Copper Hill on the Louisville and Nashville railroad a freight train struck a landslide Friday morning, overturning the engine and killing Grant Hilton a fireman and J W Montgomery a machinist from Culberson North Carolina.
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Associated Press
Copper
Hill, Tenn
Grant Hilton
J. W. Montgomery
Culberson
N.C
Louisville and Nashville
Wildcat trapped near Liberty and sighted near Petersburg
Walter Wissler, trapper seven miles south of Liberty, netted a wildcat near his home while checking traps on Patrick Hunt’s farm. Nearby, a second catamount spooked coon hunters near Alford, four miles east of Petersburg, prompting plans for a large organized hunt to kill the intruder.
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Milton
Ind
Walter Wissler
Liberty
Patrick Hunt
Alford
Petersburg
Harry Klotz
Mrs. George H. Thompson Found Dead in Dayton Home
Mrs. George H. Thompson of Cincinnati was found dead in bed in Dayton Ohio at her daughter’s home after Christmas Day meals. She was national treasurer of the Women's Missionary Society of the Methodist church and had come to Dayton to visit the Burkam family, publishers of the Dayton Journal and Dayton Herald.
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Associated Preas
Dayton
Ohio
George H. Thompson
Cincinnati
Thompson
Women’s Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
E. G. Burkam
Dayton Journal
Dayton Herald
Fatalities in Free-For-All Fight at Jamestown Mining Camp
Eight others suffer minor bullet and knife wounds in a Christmas celebration brawl at Jamestown near Clarksville Arkansas. Jeski Szorwelz and Staley miners died Marshall likely wounded as the melee erupted Thursday night. origin of the dispute unclear.
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Clarksville
Ark
Jeski Szorwelz
Staley
Marshall
Jamestown
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Marie OF
Russia
C. Green
A. N. Farmer
Adele N. Farmer
Toulminville
St. Xavier's Church
Father Shea
L. Satoria
C. Satoria
Charles Ryder
William Mayo
Ollie Jackson
L. H. Scott
Yaly
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CWP
Hammel’s
Satin
CUPID
Women's Colony
Indiana
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Lung Balsaam Dow
Phil. P. Cresap Company, Ltd
New Orleans
Louisiana
Ayer
Panama
the Item
Mobile, Ala
Panama and the Canal
Panama Canal
Great Canal Zone
Cates
Willsoe Abbott
Pacific Ocean
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