Government Decomposition Rule Spark in Pure Food Fight
Debate centers on whether a decomposed egg under the 1906 Pure Food Law means rotten eggs by common law. Officials defend strict standards while egg producers argue government chemists apply arbitrary restraint, after 443 cans of frozen egg product were seized in Jersey City.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Department of Agriculture
Department
Jersey City
N. J
Topeka
Kan
Seymour Packing Company
H J. Keith
George W. Stiles, Jr
Keith Company
Congress
Supreme Court
Atacks
Secretary of Agriculture
Widow Freed to Remarry After Ancient Shoe Ceremony
Mrs Ellen Horvitz widow from Johannesburg travels to Louisville to take part in Deuteronomy shoe ceremony. Her brother in law Y Horvitz supervised the rite as rabbi. He removes the sandal and she quotes the custom, freeing her to marry whom she wishes. The brother in law subsequently marries.
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Louisville
Johannesburg
Africa
Ellen Horvitz
Horvitz
Y. Horvitz
Isarel
Y. Horovitz
Woman shoots down lover suitor to force marriage
Mrs Bernice Mohana recounts being wounded by her gun toting husband George Mohana at her sister Catherine Collins home on Evans Avenue. One bullet hit her abdomen and another lodged in the wall as she refused to wed. The seventeen year old bride expects recovery. Mohana allegedy carried a revolver during visits and threatened to kill if she refused marriage.
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St. Louis
Bernice Mohana
City Hospital
George Mohana
Catherine Collins
Evans Avenue
Mohana
Vagrancy arrest uncovers stash of pennies in Pittsburgh
Police report Joseph Whitten of Fahnestock Street being arrested for vagrancy and found with a bag of 1,000 cents at the station. Officers also discover 9,000 pennies in an old trunk at a nearby shack, allegedly for his home.
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Pittsburgh
Joseph Whittenburg
Fahnestock Street
Itenburg
Panama Canal Opens City to Atlantic Pacific Trade
Panama canal commission revised estimates map a thirteen month passage from Atlantic to Pacific with formal opening set for January 1 1915. Naval vessel to inaugurate the canal. unrestricted commercial use planned December 1914. Cost projected below 400 million dollars, possibly 375 million, plus about 1 million saved in bonds. Excavation totals around 242 million yards with big slides increasing estimates. 218 million dug by Sept 15 leaving 24 million yards. Monthly excavation ~2.5 million cubic yards. diggings to finish before Sept 15, 1913. Gatun locks require 2 million cubic yards concrete. Pedro Miguel nearly 95 percent. Mira Flores over 92 percent. Gatun spillway near completion.
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Atlantic
Pacific Ocean
Panama Canal
Panama Canal Commission
Colonel Goethals
Gatun
Pedro Miguel
Mira Flores
Paris Sculptor Reclaims Wilde Monument In Night Stand Off
New York sculptor Jacob Epstein raced from London to Paris to vindicate his six year effort on Oscar Wilde's monument. He tore away a cemetery tarpaulin at Pere Lachaise and accused cemetery director Hedequer of sacrilege while meeting Countess de Bremont who protested the act.
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Paris
Jacob Epstein
New York
London
Oscar Wilde
Wilde
Pere Lachaise
Hedequer
Epstein
Countess de Bremont
Rodin
London to India air race proposed a 4800 mile route
A London to India aeroplane race nears feasibility with an estimated 12 day journey at 400 miles per day. Prizes announced by Jodhpur and Bekanir maharajahs and the begum of Bhopa, while the Royal Geographical Society assists in route planning from London via Calais Brussels Cologne Frankfurt to Basra and Karachi.
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England
India
Jodhpur
Bekanir
Frozen and revived animals demonstrate anabiosis claims
In Moscow reports Professor Bachmetieff and colleague Rachmetieff describe freezing experiments. Butterflies and mammals allegedly revived after being cooled to minus temperatures. Early tests show success with insects and bats, though many trials failed.
Memorial tablets from Maine wreck to be cast
Acting Secretary Winthrop requests New York sculptors to propose designs for memorial tablets to be cast from Maine wreck metal. Thousands of pounds of brass and bronze remain. about 1200 tablets, 18 by 12 inches, will be produced and distributed to applicants who cover the plate cost, likely under five dollars. Each tablet will note Maine history and its metal origin.
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Winthrop
New York
Maine
No Flowers At Funerals Initiated by Danbury Priest
Rev. Dr. Walter J Shanley of St. Peter's Danbury church leads a ban on sending flowers to funerals. The order prohibits flowers in church and cemetery services under his jurisdiction, endorsed by local Catholic clergy.
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New Haven
Walter J Shanley
St. Peter's
Danbury
Shanley
Heartbeats by Wire Device Records Pulse From Distance
Harvard physicians test an electrical device to record a patient heart rate remotely. The system, demonstrated at Harvard Medical School and used at London Medical College, uses a warm salt water bath and wires to relay heart action to an external recorder, enabling distant monitoring.
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Harvard Medical School
London Medical College
Percy FE. Brown
Harvard
Too Pretty To Hold Job Drives Daughter Missing From Home
Miss Lydia Madison, seventeen, vanished from home in New York after repeatedly cannot keep a job due to employers’ annoyance. Her widowed mother Mrs Mary Madison appeals to police for help locating her daughter.
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New York
Lydia Madison
Mary Madison
Charity Workers to Have Home on New York East Side
Women charity workers on New York's East Side will have a home costing $400000. Mrs. Stuart Kennedy funds the project with her late husband’s $26,000,000 bequest to colleges, hospitals, and charitable institutions, and she acts as builder.
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New York
East Side
Stuart Kennedy
Plan Memorial to Henry Ward Beecher Near Plymouth Church
A memorial institute and arcade to Henry Ward Beecher will be built beside Plymouth Church in Brooklyn. Sisters of St John Arbuckle and Mrs Jamison fund a $100000 project, with nephews Pat A Jamison and Charles Jar Woodruff Leeming overseeing design. The facility will serve 2500 boarders as a social hub with library, gym, pool, classrooms, and an arcade to the church, dedicated June 1 1913.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
Sté John
Pat A. Jamison
Charles Jar Woodruff Leeming
American Institute of Architects
Brooklyn Heights
Arbuckle
Young Women's Christian Association
Leeming
General Beecher
Institute
Union
Frozen to life revival claims by Moscow professors
The Russekow of Slovo of Moscow reports on experiments by Professor Bachmetieff of Moscow University showing animals and insects can be frozen and revived. Early tests with butterflies at minus 23 C froze body fluids and halted vital actions, but revival occurred if warmed before minus 10 C. More extensive tests on warm blooded animals and mammals, including bats kept dead for long periods, reportedly succeeded in revival.
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St. Petersburg
Russegow
Slovo
Moscow
Kalin
Bachmetieff
Sofia
Moscow University
Rachmetieff
The
Russekow
Bachmeitel
Eggs From Air Predicted By Chemist Walden
Dr Paul Walden of Riga predicts at the International congress of applied chemistry in Chicago that eggs and other nitrogenous foods will be made from atmospheric air. He says the hen’s chemical process may be imitated in the lab and notes advances in harnessing uncombined nitrogen open vast possibilities for food production.
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Paul Walden
Riga
Russia
Chicago
Walden
St. Petersburg
Dr Walden
Football In Statu Quo And Autumn Spheroid Showdown
Poetic jubilation over football, autumn sports season begins with bold lines praising the circular ball and muddy clashes. The verse imagines players in armor and gear, celebrating gridiron action as baseball’s twin in seasonal sport.
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Bardal
la Touenhe Hancock
Timetable notices for east and westbound rail services
Eastbound and westbound train arrivals and departures listed with numbers 12 22 4 560 2 30 88 3 49 21 11 368 60 89 50 430 82 429 81. Daily running with Sunday exceptions noted by agent W RUSSEL.
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Sham
Ncas
W. Russel
Train schedule fragment for western lines and Chicago Milwaukee routes
An OCR fragment shows timetable items for No 5 and No 12 passenger trains, No 3 and No 91 locals, No 61 Chicago and No 63 Milwaukee lines eastbound, with times 12:44 a m 8:30 a m 9:07 a m 12:15 pm 1:31 a m and 7:18 pm, plus an agent name F L Broadgate.
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So'west Lim
Cessevcocsdasee
Chicago
Mdise
Milwaukee
Dage Ic
F. L. Broadgate
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Austin Sutherland
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