Yellow fever quarantine and clashes over Louisiana border war
Reports on shotgun quarantine across southern states around Louisiana yellow fever zones. Mississippi and Louisiana clash over nav al patrols and land invasions while federal aid is mobilized to stamp out the disease.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Mississippi
Texas
Alabama
Crescent City
Blanchard
Vardaman
Beaumont and
Marshall
Lazear
Havana
Ingenious Bombs of Barcelona Anarchists Foiled in Paris Visit
A pine cone shaped metal bomb, sent from Barcelona by anarchists, was found in Paris after Alfonso XIII’s visit. M. Chavigny discovered the device in Rue de Rivoli, revealing glass tubes with sulphuric acid and fulminate mercury. Director M. Girard submerged the weapon to render it harmless.
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Alfonso XIII
Paris
Rue de Rivoli
M. Chavigny
Alphonso XIII
Loubet
France
Barcelona
M. Peschard
Gaillon Quarters
M. Girard
Porte-Cochere
Ready to Fall in Love Exchange
A brief dialogue fragment features Mercy and Maude contemplating marriage and love versus wealth. Mercy rejects marrying without love, while Maude suggests loving a wealthy suitor if proposed.
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Mercy
Maude
Western Canada lieutenant governors earn high salaries
The passage notes Elihu Root would earn more as a western Canada lieutenant governor than in Washington. It lists salaries: $9,000 each for two territorial lieutenant governors, $18,000 total, Manitoba $10,000, British Columbia $9,000, Yukon commissioner $6,000. Combined western Canada chief officers total $43,000 for about 800,000 people. Ontario matches Manitoba. It concludes western territory lieutenant governorship is a prized post.
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Elihu Root
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Canada
Washington
Manitoba
British Columbia
Yukon
Ontario
Exterminate Cats Urged by Biologist At Clark University
Prof. Clifton Hodge of Clark University Worcester Mass calls for city wide cat extermination claiming cats destroy bird life. He cites German traps that reportedly killed 30 000 cats in Hamburg in one year.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Walter Weyman
United States Marine Hospital Service
Era Club
Havana
American Military Commission
Maj. W. Reed
M. D
United States Army
Jesse W. Lazear
Lazear
Johns Hopkins University
Clifton Hodge
Clark University
Worcester
Mass
Hamburg
Prof
Hodge
Hidden Wood-shed Tip Sparks Quiet Domestic Clue
A brief line from a courtroom exchange hints at a domestic setting. Mrs Meadowe directs to a wood-shed at the back of a house while a tired traveler refuses a chop-house, concluding with a judge’s remark.
Americans to Aid Ceylon Tea Development This Year
Americans and American capital will invest in Ceylon to boost the tea industry this year, signaling unprecedented involvement in the development program and the expansion of tea production.
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Ceylon
Early circulating libraries in Scotland and Edinburgh
The earliest circulating library began in Dumfermline in 1711. Allan Ramsay founded 623 in Edinburgh in 1725.
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Dumfermline
Scotland
Allan Ramsay
Edinburgh
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Sound
Gulf
United States
Dewey
Togo
Hay
Dunbar
Lake Borgne
Stur
Arkansas
Tennessee
Illinois
Memphis
Philadelphia
Mosquito
Dr. Carroll
A. S. Pinto
Omaha
Dr. Pinto
Science
Maj. Reed
Cuba
James Carroll
A. Agramonte
Quemados
Reed
Charles Finlay
H. R. Garter
Marine Hospital Service
Lanarelli
Maj
Carroll
Leonard Wood
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