Insane Hospital Reforms At Norwich State Institution
Article outlines new patient centered methods at Norwich State Hospital in Connecticut, emphasizing individual attention, patient rights, and written communications. It details patient visit rules, letters, access to nurses, and the weekly clinic, noting the hospital’s 11th year with 1,217 patients and Dr. Pollock’s leadership. It also mentions nationwide Pay-up Week and credit culture impacts on business lending and debt collection.
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Norwion. Com
Connecticut
Norwich
Middletown
Han
State Board of Charities
Board of Trustees
Board of Charities
Hindette
Warekon
Mercaants Trade
National
Airships and Motorcycles for Mails Soon?
An article in Farn and Fireside argues airships may replace flags and nets for marking mail on some routes and that speedy aircraft will carry mail faster than heavy loads. It notes Postmaster General Burleson approved motorcycles with side cars on rural routes amid expanding roads, stating rural residents could gain near-city mail access.
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Burleson
Akyecrapers
Smothered Daughter Follows Cotton Hole Incident
In Prague Oklahoma on December 11 a 9 year old girl, daughter of Paul Richey, fell into a hole she had dug in a pile of cotton and was smothered to death.
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Prague
Okls
Paul Richey
Settlement of Virginia Era and early colonial maps
This article traces Virginia settlement from King James I grants to Sir Thomas Gates and others, outlining the three charters that formed the Adventurers and Planters company, the Jamestown voyage of 1607, the birth of the first permanent English settlement, early governance, notable figures, and gradual westward expansion amid Indians, rivers, and frontier challenges. It highlights Jamestown, the Powhatan, Pocahontas, the 1619 Assembly, and later colonial territorial growth toward the Shenandoah and Alleghenies.
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Virginia
James
Niles
America
Cape
Ouist
Inniion Company
Atlantic Ocean
Old Point Comfort
Acros
Pacific Ocean
Northwest Territory
Kentucky
England
Council of
Toca
Discovery
Goodspeed
Susan Constant
Christopher Newport
London
New World
Chesapeake
Capes
Powhatan
Attyrf
Jamestown
John Smith
Pocahontan
North American
George Weardley
Jamies City
Virginia Company
Wortwan
Blue Ridge
Shenandoah
Alexander Spottswood
Tubal Cail
Virsiala
Allegheny Mountains
Pendleton County
Pennsylvania
Winchester
Mississippi
New Fracusation Theory Cited In Barn Fire
Jeffersonville Indiana December 11 Robert Honaker wholesale meat dealer presented a theory of spontaneous combustion after his barn burned four hours before firefighters finished. He claimed eggs in a bag heated by green hay and poor ventilation caused the blaze per his explanation, while firemen cited lack of ventilation and green hay as likely causes.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Robert Honaker
Honaker
Ampere and the rise of electrical science
A historical overview of electricity’s units and Ampere’s life highlights his birth in Lyons in 1775, his pioneering work in electro dynamics, and how his name endures in the measurement of current. The piece explains volt, ohm, and ampere, and notes an ordinary lamp’s current draw, along with Ampere’s youthful talents and perseverance amid illness and family tragedy.
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Mary Queer
Lyons
Ampere
Andre Marie Ampere
Mrouen
Nrn
France
Janvere
TIS
Napoleon
Washington
Am- Dere
Bourg
Garment Worker Murder Shocks Chicago Hall
In Chicago a hall hosting a dance for garment workers was disrupted by a mob shouting abuse. Michael Gusckowski, a young Austrian tailor married four months, was attacked and died the next day. Four men were arrested. the victim was a union member in good standing, not a scab, marking a grim two month period of garment workers' violence.
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Chicago
Comte
Michael Gusckowski
Garment Workers’ Union
Garment Workers
Movement for Monarchy in China Raises Anxiety
Correspondence from Karim price oblique dispatches to Lu Cheng-Hsi Ong, China’s foreign minister, from October 28 cite Japanese pressure backed by Britain and Russia for a monarchic restoration. The note warns unrest in Shanghai and Yangtze provinces, urges care to avoid disorder, and notes Yuan Shikai’s presidency as maintaining peace while monarchy remains a theoretical option. The Chinese reply stresses internal affairs, slow constitutional process, and desire to safeguard foreign interests and regional peace.
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Prking
Lu Cheng-Hsi Ong
Obata
Chieke
China
Shanghai
Yang-tse Valley
Wouth
Europe
Far East
Yuan Shi-kai
Yuan
Chinces
Japan
Li Fa Yuan
Advicr
Yang-tse
South China
Pawera
Desiga
The Road To Happiness Ends In Kitchen Confusion
Oswald Foxtrot declares he is leaving after a quarrel over cooking, a frivolous domestic scene escalates as Mrs. Foxtrot reveals she can perform the chafing dish trot. Furniture is hurled from the window and two silhouettes perform the dish dance to the shock of onlookers.
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Oswald Foxtrot
Dardanelles
Foxtrot
Ike
Oswald
Mrs. Foxtrot
Clarice
Noting Shakespeare’s Hunger Tests Local Marines Office
In Rochester on December 11 William Shakespeare, 39, sought enlistment in the U S Marine Corps. Recruits sergeant George Fynmore rejected him as underweight and unfit, and after a quip filled exchange the would be recruit left rather than face Monroe county service.
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Rochester
William Shakespeare
United States Marine Corps
Pritches
Sam
George
Fynmore
Caitiff
Pote “Monacker
Monroe County
Farmers Lose By Selling Half Fat Fowls And Chicks
Farmers lose heavily by marketing half fat fowls and chicks. A simple cheap fattening method by two weeks crate feeding yields profit, using finely ground feed mixed with buttermilk or soy milk, plus optional meat scraps, no water or grit, and no fattening beyond two weeks.
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Mitchell
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