Naval Fight Over Navy Increase Faces Bipartisan Clash
Washington dispatch notes a heated fight in Congress over adding one or more battleships to the fleet. Underwood opposes new ships this session, but allies may push for one or two with Republican support. The looming dreadnoughts could boost U S strength for the Panama Canal celebration and future navies.
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George Clinton
Washington
Congress
Oscar W. Underwood
Underwood
American Sea Service
Navy
Mason and Dixon Line
France
Panama Canal
United States
Arctic Storm Sundered Arctic Circle Voltage
A Russian mining engineer reports in Meteorologische Zeitschrift a severe eight hour thunderstorm in Spitzbergen during August. The storm featured constant lightning loud thunder and heavy rain. It challenges the view that polar regions lack storms and notes exceptional violence for the area.
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Meteorologische Zeitschrift
Arctic Circle
Spitzbergen
Rockefeller Jr Announces Plans for Bureau of Social Hygiene
John D. Rockefeller Jr outlines the origin and aims of the Bureau of Social Hygiene formed in 1911 to study vice conditions in New York. It operates a Bedford Hills laboratory under Katharine Davis with surveys by Kneeland and Flexner and pursues scientific humane reform beyond public commissions.
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New York
Bureau of Social Hygiene
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
New York City
Rockefeller
Katharine Bement Davis
New York State
Bureau
George J. Kneeland
Abraham Flexner
Europe
Bond Refusals Delay Release of Ryan and Two Others
The United States circuit court of appeals again refused to approve bonds for Frank M. Ryan president of the International Iron workers union R H Houlihan and Slliam Shupe of Chicago convicted of conspiracy in the illegal transport of dynamite District Attorney Miller found the proposed sureties insufficient William Bernhardt of Cincinnati had a $10 000 bond accepted
Speedy Justice in Mississippi Hangs Alleged Store Burglar
In Gulfport Mississippi within seven hours after shooting Chief Charles Dickey Percy Newkirk a Black man was indicted by the county grand jury tried for murder convicted and sentenced to hang exactly one month later. A large crowd gathered near the courthouse amid threats of lynching despite the swift verdict.
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Gulfport
Miss
Charles Dickey
Percy Newkirk
Great Men Enrich Language
London notes the growth of language through famous names becoming words. Wellington as boot, Brougham as carriage, Gladstone as bag, Burke as burke and related forms, Boycott’s impact with boycott terms, and Bowdler’s family edition spawning bowdlerize and bowdlerism.
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London
Wellington
Brougham
Gladstone
Burke
Burked
Burking
Dig Up Stolen Treasure Near Kyle Bank Heist
Fifteen hundred dollars in currency, part of the 17000 stolen when the Kyle State bank vault was dynamited years ago, was unearthed by telephone linemen laying poles in San Marcos Texas. Also notes a humorous aside about a class in which a student jokes about a volcano drawing and the remark I think it looks like hell.
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San Marcos
Tex
Kyle State Bank
Kyle
Small Sam
Sammie
Chicago Record-Herald
Eczema Victim Finds Cure With Cuticura in Two Weeks
George Wooden of Baltimore Maryland suffered ten years of dry itchy eczema until using Cuticura Soap and Ointment after requesting free samples. He reports immediate relief and a complete cure in two weeks. The ad promotes Cuticura worldwide sales and a free sample with the 32 page Skin Book.
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Baltimore
George Wooden
Cuticura
Dept. L. Boston
Gossip and Household Remedies in an 19th Century Page
A fragment lists marriage gossip with an invitation to a mixed race ceremony and references to colored couples. It also includes advertisements for Chest Ointment, Grove’s Tonic, Allen's Foot-Ease, Hicks Capacine, Dr. Pierce’s Pellets, and Woolford's Secr Lotion, plus quips about manners and fishing lore.
Life’s Struggle with Illness
Euphemia Ohio woman Evelyn Adel ia Stewart recalls long monthly pains from age 16 and a life altered by the Change of Life at 47. After using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound she reports three months of relief, decades of good health, and earning a home through sewing and nursing. She recommends the product and invites confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co.
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Ohio
Kansas
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E.pinkham
Evelyn Adelia Stewart
Euphemia
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Love Bros. Dairy
High Point Ice & Fuel Company
Mann Drug Company
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Stamey
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Phono
Bik
Texas Bank
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Richmond
Henry Clay Barker
Josephine Mortimer Dixon
Lippincott’s Magazine
Burwell & Dunn Co
Mfrs
Charlotte
N.C
Chilid
Allen
King
Olmsted
le Roy
Gabe
Steve
Hicks
Dr. Pierce
Woolford
Ggista
Adv
Sirabaus
Inverstock
Hampstead
Knog
Z John
Larneau's
Charleston
Strompson
Feye Water
Moulins Thompson Sons
Troy,n
C. Lam Company
Omaha
Neb
A. M. Mecklenburg Co
N. C
A. Cult
J. W. Cross
Hunteraville
Pierces
Golden Medical Discovery
R. V. Pierce
Oregon
Pierce
Buffalo
Mu. D. Lavery
O ‘Washburn
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