Mine Safety Demonstration Promises Life Saving Rescue
Analysis of mine disasters and a planned rescue exhibition led by the Bureau of Mines and partners in Pittsburg with Taft present. The event aims to dramatize safety first, showcase oxygen helmets, rescue cars, and first aid drills while highlighting the high toll of mining deaths and urging conservation of lives and resources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Edgerton
Pittsburg
Taft
Washington
National Bureau of Mines
American Red Cross
United Mine Workers of America
Pittsburg Coal Operators’ Association
Dr. J. A. Holmes
Bureau of Mines
Walter L. Fisher
the Interior
John K. Tener
Pennsylvania
Mabel Boardman
The
Red Cross
Industrial Department
International Y. M. C. A
Board of Managers
United States
Europe
America
Belgium
W. Lightner
High Court of Humanity
Bureau
Joseph A. Holmes
BLUE AND GRAY TO UNITE AT WASHINGTON REUNION
Veterans from the Union and Confederacy planned a 1913 peace jubilee and general reunion in Washington. General John H. McDowell led 500 attendees at Memphis as Commander in Chief Trimble sent Adjutant General C R Koch in his stead. The proposal passed by acclamation with committees to be named by Trimble and McDowell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Washington
John H. McDowell
Army of Tennessee
United Confederate Veterans’ Association
Trimble
Grand Army of the Republic
C. R. Koch
ChinaLro
Judge Trimble
General McDowell
Electricity in Agriculture Showcases British Pilot Projects
The British government plans a substantial expenditure to study electricity use in farming. Early wheat experiments show clear beneficial effects, with demonstrations confirming positive outcomes for crop production and agricultural efficiency.
State's warfare against disease gains wide support
Pennsylvania's health department, built by Pennypacker and expanded under later governors, portrays a robust tuberculosis campaign, free diphtheria antitoxin, and water purification advances. The article highlights Mont Alto and Cresson sanatoria, dispensary work, nursehome visits, and economic life saved by reduced typhoid deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Department of Health
Dixon
Army of Health
Pennypacker
Stuart
Tener
State Health Department
Mont Alto
Pittsburg
Hamburg
Schuylkill Valley
Reading
Cresson
State Department of Health
Commonwealth
Jury Awards Woman 7590 in Trolley Collision Suit
Miss Adele M. Trumbower a Coatesville saleslady won 7590 in Norristown in a damages suit against Lehigh Valley Transit after suffering a fractured skull and brain injury when her wagon was struck by a trolley between North Wales and Lansdale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norristown
Adele M. Trumbower
Coatesville
Philadelphia
Lehigh Valley Transit Company
Trumblower
North Wales
Lansdale
Arranges Funeral and Ends His Life in Kalamazoo
Squire H. Morton, 60, visited an undertaker to choose a coffin and funeral plans then returned home and drank carbolic acid. He told friends he had lived long enough.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalamazoo
Mich
Squire H. Morton
Morton
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Conservation of Men
Confederates
Health Department
Toner
Mountain
New Sanitarium
Andrew Carnegie
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