Carelessness of Americans in Safety Efforts
The Literary Digest explains America’s high accident rate across trades and professions. Walsh in Cassier's Magazine notes U S railroads kill about 21 people daily and Americans resist safety devices, unlike Europe. Surgeons' insight could guide reforms, while American democracy struggles to enact protective measures.
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Literary Digest
G. E. Walsh
America
Cassier
France
United States
Europe
Amsterdam
Walsh
Heredity a Delusion
Maj Charles Woodruff argues in American Medicine that heredity is misused term and that every living organism varies by environment not by inherited traits. He says parent child similarities arise from shared conditions and that anomalies come from physical causes not germ defect or divine acts. He urges optimism and reconciliation of evolutionary camps.
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Maj
Charles Woodruff
American Medicine
Woodruff
Washington Letter on Consular Reform and Philippine War Backlash
A Washington letter reports the National Consular Reform Association urging a sweeping consular bill after speeches by President and other leaders. It covers Secretary Root on efficient service, the president’s push for graded entrance, and debates over General Wood’s Philippine actions amid rail rate legislation and possible congressional action by spring.
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Root
State Department
Cannon
Lodge
Adams
Congress
Senate
Convention
Thesident
Leonard Wood
Wood
England
Egypt
Kipling
General Wood
Cuba
Home Trade Idea from Red Oak Sun
In some towns merchants and manufacturers become boosters by patronizing home trades and pressing family support for home enterprises. Bankers and professionals buy at home, spreading cooperation and upbuilding to surrounding areas. This pride and obligation drive growth, widen trading territory, and boost home manufacturing against outside competition.
Marriage Licenses Swindle Reaches Indiana Farm
A traveling minister posing as a preacher gained lodging at a farmer in Indiana. A young couple then married there, persuading the farmer and his wife to sign the certificate. The farmer later learned the document was a promissory note for $100 discounted by the swindlers.
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Indiana
Gettigng
Frau
Indigestion ads and stationer notes flood the page
The fragment lists patent medicine blurbs and a stationery plug. It mocks health claims and weather prophets while promoting Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and Carrs stationery. References include S Kingston as seller and a casual jab at job applicants smoking cigarettes.
Gas Explosion at Century Coal Mine Leaves Dozens Missing
A gas explosion at Century Coal Co mine in Century West Virginia killed ten and left 25 injured with 25 to 75 others missing. Rescue efforts recovered nine bodies by 3 AM, with 12 more unaccounted for as relief trains and doctors treated the injured and worked through the night.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Century Coal Co
Century
Bellington & Buckhannon
Baltimore & Ohio
Shaw Bros
Baltimore
West Virginia
James Ward
Ward
Philippi
Buckhannon
Wheeling
Twenty Years For Forgery In Marshalltown Trial
W Gordon Gray, once a Chicago newspaper writer, was sentenced to 20 years in the penitentiary by Judge Burnham after pleading guilty to three forgery counts. Gray, who married Trixie Shapcott of Marshalltown six weeks ago, faced the indictment’s charges.
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Marshalltown
W. Gordon Gray
Chicago
Burnham
Gray
Trixie Shapcott
Yoakam Recovers After Appendectomy in New York
B F Yoakam, chairman of the executive committee of the Rock Island and Frisco systems, who underwent an operation for appendicitis Tuesday evening, is reported recovering rapidly in New York.
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Yoakam
New York
Rock Island and Frisco Systems
Love Lorn Man Wills Self in Hopkinsville Story
Hopkinsville Kentucky March 23e Young Alexander is dead from morphine. He had procured a Meenge to marry Miss Hendricks a neighbor's daughter and when she refused to marry him he took the fatal dose.
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Hopkinsville
Alexander
City Treasurer Ordered to File Detailed Yearly Accounts
In Troy the City Treasurer is required to present a full itemized annual account of all receipts and expenditures, by source and purpose, up to the close of the fiscal year. The report must show balances, include a semi annual summary to the mayor, and be published in a newspaper or posted publicly.
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Rer
Hsource
the Charity of the City of
Troy
James N. Parves
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children attention fades
As a result of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children work, authorities report actual brutality by parents toward children has decreased materially. The society acts as a fearsome presence in parents' minds, while neglect still adds to the tally of cases though physical torture now attracts far less attention than at the outset.
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Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Longworth fortune tied to early land deals in Cincinnati
Cincinnati congressman Nicholas Longworth plans to wed Misa Roosevelt next February. He benefited from a shrewd grandfather earlier in the century, a tanner who moved to Cincinnati, acquired much land in the city’s best part, and grew very wealthy before his death.
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Nicholas Longworth
Cincinnati
Misa Roosevelt
A Kansas Shirt Tale Headlines Roomy Quiz
A Kansas Register notes a shirt at Parsons Laundry last week with two diamond studs sewn in the bosom. The owner retrieved them, calling it the most remarkable shirt tale in Kansas.
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Parsons
Kansas
Lola
Regrister
Wedding Invitations and Announcements at The Car Office
Wedding invitations and programmes offered with high style. Samples available at The Car Office. inquire to see examples.
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Stanley Ritcher
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