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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1912
Page
8
The Winnebago Indians of Nebraska vote to abandon traditional polygamy and marry under state law. About 1000 men will wed in a single, retroactive ceremony with invitations sent to Sioux Crow Arapaho Arikiaries Ponca Osage and Omaha tribes.
The navy department issued rules to protect submarines and crews. No sub will operate alone without fleet notification of exact movements. Exercises require a tender or other sub and careful supervision. Inexperienced crews may use shoal water only and depth limits apply to older and newer subs.
Mrs Effie Bender a Chicago scrub woman learns she inherited 250000 from Frank Mandell of Helena Montana, a youth sweetheart. A letter to friend Helen Potter revealed the fortune and the plan that followed involved housing her children and aiding a daughter.
Five cases and one death reported at St. Michael and ten cases with two deaths at Unalakleet 45 miles away. Three cases in Sitka. After Harvard professor Rosenau's investigations, Surgeon General Blue ordered Alaska officers to study if stable flies spread the disease.
The Rice Institute in Houston opens this fall with a $10,000,000 endowment plan and leading educators from across the nation. Dr. Edgar Odell Lovett leads the project, aiming for nonpolitical, nonsectarian advancement in letters science and art, with free tuition and broad research opportunities for students and graduates.
The Philadelphia court of common pleas directed a 1753 mortgage between Jacob Stadler and John Mifflin and his wife be marked paid. The front on Market above Second Street, valued at $280 in 1706, blocked adjacent landowners from clear title for decades. Despite large offers, successors could not secure title until a compromise led to wiping out the old incumbrance after extensive legal action by the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society.
M L G Droit announced at the Paris Academy of Sciences a silk glove made with heavily leaded silk that provides protection against X rays. The glove, formed from six layers, proved supple and effective in shielding the hands during repeated tests.
The Town Supreme Court declares tips given for shines in shoe shining shops go to the boys who work there, not to the shop boss.
The Turkish consul general in New York calls all Ottoman subjects to join the army, as Albanians and others volunteer. Three Albanian Catholic priests depart with Turks, while Barnard College girls request nurse duties and letters to Washington rise.
The Interstate Commerce Commission suspended the new baggage regulation until April 29. The rule would charge ten pounds per extra inch for baggage exceeding forty five inches and prohibit any baggage over seventy inches from being transported in baggage cars.
The department of agriculture will experiment in Bethesda Maryland this winter to find the cause of the recent horse epidemic that killed thousands in Kansas and Nebraska. Authorities differ on whether bacteria or toxic poisoning from extreme climate caused the outbreak.
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