Canal Zone Health Resort Shows Sharp Decline in Death Rates
The Isthmian Canal Commission sanitation report for October 1911 details 37,496 colored and 12,316 white workers with 39 deaths among coloreds and whites, a rate of 12.48 per thousand. White workers show 6.82 per thousand, while the American population in the Zone, about 11,839 people, records 2.03 per thousand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Sanitation
Isthmian Canal Commission
Tropics
Journal of the American Medical Association
United States
Canal Zone
West Orange
N. J
Charleston
S. C
Million Dollar Gift for Miss Agnes Patten Bride
Chicago dispatch reports a $1,000,000 gold gift linked to Christmas and a wedding. Miss Agnes Patten, daughter of Evanston millionaire James A. Patten, married Lawrence Russell Wilder. A family friend says Patten gave $3.5 million as combined Christmas and wedding present, matched by Wilder’s father.
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Agnes Patten
James A. Patten
Evanston
Miss Patten
Lawrence Russell Wilder
City Bus Line Order Line Ad Note
Call up phone number 589 Black to leave orders for Frank Rogers. Include steel and number. Refer to For Sale and Want Ads on Page 7 column 1. tf
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Frank Rogers
Steel
Sad accident in Ubio Iowa leaves Fern Morrow critical
A morning accident near Ubio Iowa injures Miss Fern Morrow when an axe glances off a clothes line striking her head. Doctors say the skull is caved in with brain pressure and an operation may relieve the pressure. Her family gathers at her bedside as she remains unconscious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rubio
Dodes
Richland
Wim.Morrow
Miss Morrow
Barber not an artist in Missouri tax case decision
In Macon Missouri Judge Shelton rules that a barber is a laborer not subject to an occupation tax. Evan William and fellow barbers were assessed $5.25. City Attorney Waldo Edwards argued the statute names artists citing the art of barbering. The ruling aligns with the idea that barbers are not artists under the tax law. Also promotional note for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and Lemmon's Pharmacy sale.
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Macon
Shelton
Bevier
Evan William
Waldo Edwards
Supreme Court
New Paxton Toilet Germicide Powder Promises Broad Use
Advertises a powder solution for dental cleaning tartar removal and breath purification. also claims to disinfect mouth prevent disease and deodorize. It promotes sponge baths to reduce body odors and soothes eyes throat wounds and cuts. Sold at 25 and 50 cents a box by Pax ton Toilet Co Boston MA with free sample.
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THE
Paxton Toilet CO
Boston
Mans
Sunday Bonnet and a Vote in 1910
A dialogue scene set around election day shows a husband urging his wife to vote for a political slate while she refuses, longing for future opportunity. The writing features 1910 era voice and ends with attribution to Walt Mason.
Trial of Jesse Freel Postponed Indefinitely
The murder trial of Jesse Freel, son of city engineer W. S. Freel, is postponed as key witness Ralph Hunter of Cloverdale cannot testify. Hunter, shot by Freel the night of the killing, is paralyzed from the hips and remains permanently disabled, doctors say.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newcastle
Ind
Jesse Freel
W. S. Freel
Clara Vanzant Freel
Evans
Ralph Hunter
Cloverdale
Freel
Hunter
Father Wins Custody as Court Nullifies Kidnapping Detention
In Missouri supreme court a ruling grants Richard B. Stack of Escanaba Michigan custody of his son John King Stack. The detention for kidnapping is overturned. Mrs Stack is said to be on a honeymoon with her second husband. Stacks claim the boy was taken with grandmother's permission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Migeouri
Supreme Court
Richard B. Stack
Escanaba
Mich
John King Stack
Trapped Miners Survive After Wigan Pit Flood
In Wigan England at the Cross Tetley coal pit a sudden inrush of water trapped two hundred miners underground. All escaped. This marks the second disaster at Wigan in four years following a 1907 fatal coal property accident that killed seventy people.
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Wigan
England
Cross Tetley
Miners Die in Teutoburgia Colliery Fire Damp Explosion
In Dortmund Rortmund Germany on December 25 six miners were killed by a fire damp explosion at Teutoburgia colliery. In Elgin Alabama on December 25 John Kilbourne attempted suicide, slashing both wrists and injuring both forearms and an ankle. he is expected to recover.
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Rortmund
Germany
Teutoburgia
Elgin, al
John Kilbourne
Millionaire Texan Cattleman Jackon Dies Rich at 50
Ed Jackson a Kansas City newsboy who became a west Texas sheep herder then a land and cattle magnate died at fifty leaving an estate over 1 million. The bachelor heir promised 100000 to a poor Mexican washwoman and two children amid a looming legal contest over the will.
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San Angelo
Tex
Jackson
Kansas City
West Texas
Kentucky
Austin
St. Louis
W. L. Caldwell
Sonora
Moros Submit After Sizable Morale Threat
Manila December 26. Moros who threatened Americans surrendered after an encircled standoff. Twenty rebels attempted a through-the-line break by Filipino scouts but were driven back with several killed and forced to surrender for lack of food. No American or scout casualties occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
No Vaudeville Trust Rumors Shake Chicago Scene
Martin Beck of the Orpheum circuit says fear of trust prosecutions grips the vaudeville industry as the east west territory pact is rescinded. James H. Wilkerson confirms possible trust case talk while Beck is in Chicago. he denies a written bookings agreement ever existed.
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Chicago
America
Martin Beck
Orpheum
James H. Wilkerson
United States
Beck
Strike at Tecumseh mines as machine miner is not reinstated
Five hundred miners at the Tecumseh mines in Bicknell Indiana walked out after the company refused to reinstate a machine miner the Indiana district United Mine Workers demanded he be returned to machine work the company says he was transferred for poor care of his machine the miners insist he was competent Secretary Philip Penna of the Indiana Operators association called a meeting of all Indiana operators for next Wednesday to address the strike the officials say it is the strongest demand yet by miners for mine control
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Terre Haute
Ind
Tecumseh
Bicknell
Indiana
United Mine Workers
Philip Penna
Indiana Operators’ Association
Ele
Miners’ Organization
Clara Barton Celebrated on Her Ninetyfirst Birthday
Christmas greetings poured in for Clara Barton founder of the American Red Cross. Though ill and at her Glen Echo Maryland home she received only a few visitors as physicians kept restrictions. Telegrams from friends arrived as hopes rose on her health.
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Washington
Clara Barton
American National Red Cross
Miss Barton
Red Cross
Glen Echo
Barton
Poland China Hogs For Sale In Keota Iowa
Pure bred Poland China hogs for sale from March and April farrow and some fall yearlings. Sired by Junction Chief 152591 Black Giant 167427 and Longfellow 151663. Trio of males, six feet long with nine inch bone. Big smooth type and guaranteed breeders. Contact a. B. Van Kleerck in Keota Iowa 5 miles west of West Chester.
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Junction Chief
A. B. van Kleerck
Keota
Towa
West Chester
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Canal Zone Health Resort
Wonderfous
Brida
Nicola
Harmon
Ubio
Owa
Barber
Missouri
Chamberlain’s
Lemmon
Walt
Walt Mason
George Matthews Adams
Michigan
Elgin Man
Electric Irons
Iowa Gas & Electric Co
Kansas City Lad
Texas
Jackson A Millionaire
J. Wilson
Co. C. Wilson
Wilson & Wilson Lawyers Opposite Journal Office
Iowa
Charles A. Dewey
Lawyer
Washington County Savings
Washington, Iowa
Eicher & Livingston
LAW Abstract Department
Edmund D. Morrison
J. J. Kellogg
South Side Square
W. M Keeley
Butterfield & Frame
Special Collection Department
Crail’s
MOROS
J. Hanley
Over Crail
DR. W. M. Terry
West Washington Street
Ray H. Dean
Cook & Sherman's Drug Store
D. Clyde Wallace
D. C
J. Clyde Wallace
D. GC
Windsor
Telephone 317
Austin Sutherland
Chas. Brown
II. O. HS
Alpine Aerie No. 143
BE. G. Fox
W. P.R. C. Dubois
Seey
R. I. G. White Post
Temple Bulding
J. W. Scott
Adjt
MT. WY Ae Valley Forte Camp
Hall
North Side Square
J. G. Moriarty
Washington Lodge
A. F
A. M
J. EB. Kunath
W. M
J. W. Morton
Cyrus Chapter
James D. Glasgow
H. P
Bethlehem Commandery
K. T
Wyatt B. Marbourg
Sec
J. E. Kunath
Fenton & Fenton
Chiropractors
Washington County Savings Bank
Palmer School
Farmers & Merchants State Bank
S. A. White
Sam'l L. Thompson
R. L. Coulter
W. A. White
Harry HH. Ross
Chichester
Ae Druggtat. A
Druguists
Poland
China
Longfellow
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