Cost of Illness and Medical Care Crisis Noted
Dr. Homer Folks estimates direct US illness expenditures near four billion dollars yearly plus seven hundred million for medicines. Loss of future earnings from premature deaths reaches twelve billion. A Cost of Medical Care committee led by Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur asks how a low wage earner can pay for care.
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North American Newspaper Alliance
Homer Folks
State Charities Aid of
New York
United States
Folks
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Stanford University
Interior
Washington
Wilbur
Olin West
Chicago
American Medical Association
Three Children and Mother Hacked to Death in Detroit
A man interrupted a drinking party and hacked Mrs. Joseph Podolski and her three children to death with an axe. The blood-soaked mother and two children, Margaret four and Pauline two, were found in the home. A third child, Josephine ten, died at a hospital. The house showed a violent struggle with overturned furniture and torn curtains.
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Detroit
Joseph Podolski
Margaret
Pauline
Josephine
Four St Mary's pupils drown while fishing on Bad River
Four pupils of St Mary’s school on the Bad River Indian reservation drowned when boats capsized. Two 15 year olds Gordon and Mishler survived after helping others into their boat but rescue attempts failed. Bodies recovered after an hour in 15 feet of water. Coroner Louis Sollie and Curtiss Markeson assisted.
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Odanah
Wis
St. Mary’s School
Bad River Indian Reservation
Lawrence Delille
Edward Blanchard
John Genery
Orville Genery
George Gordon
Bruno Mishler
Gordon
Mishler
Louis Sollie
Curtiss Markeson
Make Your Classified Advertising Pull Big Results
An old classified ad headline urges readers to use small ads to drive strong response. It promotes a simple phone contact for effective pulling power in local listings. The piece reflects mid century newspaper advertising tactics and emphasis on concise, action driven messaging.
County widens highways to serve race courses south of Butte
County surveyor announces widening of Four-mile road and Elizabeth Warren avenue between Harrison avenue and the race track site by 15 feet over a half mile. Four bridges on these roads gain eight feet in width. Traffic to horse and dog races and the country club will flow through the improved routes. Afterward a large grader will move to rebuild the Boy Scout camp road in the Highlands damaged by a flood Memorial Day.
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Butte
Elizabeth Warren
Harrison Avenue
Mike Loughran
Loughran
Country Club
Columbia Rg
Boy Scout
Highlands
Mystery in Death of Old Man Near Oregon Short Line Yard
Joseph W. Kelly, 74, died May 19 after injuries in the Oregon Short Line yards. An inquest revealed a back wound possibly from a blade or nail, contradicting an initial report that he died from a fall from a moving freight train. He was found by trainmen in a yard boxcar with two youths nearby as a train pulled out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph W. Kelly
Kelly
Hoover's Youngest Son Receives Stanford Diploma
Allen Hoover eldest son of President Hoover graduated from Stanford University in a quiet ceremony. Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur presented his diploma. Betty Ford, 17, also earned a degree as part of the class of 695 graduates.
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Palo Alto
Cal
Allen Hoover
Hoover
Stanford University
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Cee
Betty Ford
Stanford
Prohibition Enforcers Move to Limit Firearms
Federal officials act to curb shootings tied to enforcement as White House attention grows. Customs collectors at the Canadian border are ordered to limit officers to service pistols, banning sawed-off guns and rifles. A warning on careless firearms use follows, with agents authorized to use force only in self defense or to stop a felony.
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Tnited
Washington
White House
Hoover
Treasury
Lowman
Citizens Committee
International Falls
Minn
Henry Virkula
White House entertainment remark sparks withdrawn resolution
A South Carolina Democrat introduced a resolution criticizing a White House event involving the wife of Representative De Priest. Controversial doggerel verse prompted Senator Blease to withdraw the measure as Senators Edge and Bingham opposed it strongly. The document urged the President and Mrs. Hoover to recall appropriate decorum.
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Washington
South Carolina
White House
de Priest, Negrote
Illinois
Blease
Edge
New Jersey
Bingham
Connecticut
Hoover
House
Woman Severely Injured When Auto Struck Near Here
Mrs. W. G. Gallagher of 1728 Faragut Street is in St James hospital in serious condition with a fractured right leg and other injuries after a car she rode in was struck by another auto near Gold Creek yesterday afternoon. Four other passengers escaped with minor scratches. Mrs Gallagher and her family were en route to California from Butte with Miss Mary Carmody of Walkerville. they said another car collided after rounding a bad turn while traveling slowly.
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Mabelle Corey
Prince Louis of Bourbon
Alfonso
Spain
Mabelle Gilman Corey
Pri
San Remo
Hiser
W. G. Gallagher
Farragut Street
St. James Hospital
Gold Creek
Mother Poisons Son to Leave State Sparks Hearing
Harford county police and Pennsylvania railroad detectives search for James Aberts, a former boarder at Mrs. Hattie Stone’s home, as she faces murder charges in the death of her 15 year old son George. The probe follows testimony at a habeas corpus hearing alleging Stone poisoned the boy to obtain funds so she and her boarder could leave the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belair
Harford County
Pennsylvania Railroad
James Aberts
Hattie Stone
George
Detroit Picked Ad Center for Crucial Stand in Prohibition Fight
The article reports Detroit selected by President Hoover as a testing ground to enforce the 18th amendment in the nation’s largest cross-border city. It notes arriving strangers with a military bearing and a steady influx of liquor from regions where brewing is legal, signaling a high-stakes campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Alliance
The
Detroit News
ComEeerenet Wre
Montana
Hanes
Hoover
Automobile
New York
Cleveland
Buffalo
Philadelphia
Washington
Chicago
Pacific Coast
South
Public 15 Queer Browning Finds At Estate Sale
Edward West Browning, billionaire, sought to convert his Browning Manhattan real estate worth six million into cash at an auction. He called the sale fairly satisfactory, but attendance was poor with twenty thousand empty seats at Madison Square Garden.
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Queer Browning
Sam Love
Central Press
New York
Edward West Browning
Madison Square Garden
Browning Manhattan
Browning
Drink-Crazed Montana Sheepman Goes On Rampage Near Brady
Conrad Montana June 17 A drunken sheepman, Dave Morgan, 35 miles east of Brady, attacked neighbors after a business dispute with L Brooks. He knocked out a man and wife, fired into a home, set buildings on fire, and clashed with officers before being captured with Brooks’ help. He later fired into Mrs Brooks’ mother’s house before authorities halted the spree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Brady
Brooks
Morgan
Army to Pay Full Honor to General Hadlewood
Bramwell Booth, former Salvation Army leader, died at 73 in England. The Army will honor him with full funeral rites next Monday, with attendance expected from church, welfare, public bodies and likely the king and government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hadlewood
England
Britain
Bramwell Booth
Salvation Army
Borah Tariff Resolution Fails as Recess Plans Advise
The Borah tariff revision ban was voted down 39 to 38 by the Senate. A Senate recess from June 24 to August 19 was approved 57 to 23, with House plans for a September or October recess amid tariff vote tensions. Hoover focuses on implementing a new farmer boon under the new law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Watson
Indiana
House
Jones
Hoover
Dawes Speech Hinted as Anglo American Settlement Plan
London June 17 The scheduled address by Ambassador G Dawes at a Pilgrims Society dinner is awaited by Britain for the first outline of Anglo American plans on naval disarmament. Dawes is expected to present the present situation after his conference with Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
G. Dawes
Pilgrims Society
Great Britain
Ramsay MacDonald
Public first aid class opened by government man
The Butte Chamber of Commerce hosts a wartime style emergency drill as U S Bureau of Mines conducts public first aid classes led by James Westfield in a mine rescue car near Leonard mine. Twenty eight attended including Judge W E The Judge who jokes about his first aid stint delaying execution.
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Butte Chamber of Commerce
U. S. Bureau of Mines
James Westfield
Tra W. Merrill
U. S
Leonard
Nee Benide
W. E
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Scout
Florence Vidor
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Hery
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Joseph Kelly
Stanford Guard
Raymond Clapper
International Newarest
Here
L. Brooks
Liquor Row
James Cox
Border Patrol
Archibald Easter
Colorado Springs
Tra Perry
Denver
Borah Resolution
Dawes
Bureau of Mines
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