Sedition bill and Palmer clash noted in dispatch
Halifax report states eight lives were lost when a small boat from the Northern Pacific overturned while attempting to transfer passengers from the disabled Powhatan. Bardic officers cite a wireless message. navy officials say no record exists. Captain Randall said Powhatan was being towed toward Halifax by Lady Laurier with no passenger transfer unless conditions allow.
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Halifax
N. S
United States
Northern Pacific
Powhatan
Bardic
Navy Department
Randall
The
Lady Laurier
Horses Produce Serum to Help Fight Disease
A Rockefeller Institute report credits 46 immunized horses at Princeton New Jersey with producing serums used to treat meningitis pneumonia and dysentery during the war. Serum output rose from 3000 doses in 1917 to 25000 in 1918 with 2035 bottles sent to military and medical institutions. The study notes advances in treating infected wounds and funding to extend war hospital demonstrations through April 1920.
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United States
Princeton
N. J
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Flexner
Army and Navy Medical Schools
Washington
United States Army
American Expeditionary Force
Hygienic Laboratory
United States Public Health Service
Royal Naval College
London
Carel and Dakin
Navy
Red Cross
Clvilian
Rockefeller Institute
Rule for computing interest over short periods
The article explains a quick method to calculate interest for short periods by multiplying the principal by the number of days and dividing by specific denominators: 72 for 5 percent, 60 for 6 percent, 52 for T percent, 45 for 8 percent, and 40 for 9 percent.
Browning Holds Record in Early Firearm Inventions
Browning formed his first gun as a teenager in his teens at age thirteen. The text notes he did not make a machine gun and credits John Browning with inventing more successful firearms than ten other men in history.
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Browning
John M. Browning
Forum
Birthday gathering and weddings mark Ainsworth events
Miss Cora Teeter celebrated a birthday at Ainsworth with friends. A wedding in Peoria united Homer Prymek and Bessie Chenoweth. Many local women attended church events, showers, and engagement parties with varied menus and social games.
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Ators
Cora Teeter
A. J. Peterson
Ainsworth
Homer W. Prymek
Riverside
Iowa
Bessie L. Chenoweth
Smithfield
Illinois
Peoria
Imlinois
Frank Prymek
Sarah Chenoweth Joachim
Witnois
Fred Coakley
Copenhagen
Young Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Alice Rowne
Showers Planned by Miss Stones in Ainsworth
In Ainsworth Miss Stones friends plan several showers next week for the honored guest Ainsworth hosts the events with local attendees and preparations underway for the celebrations.
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Ainsworth
Miss Stone
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