PELLAGRA TESTS BY HOWARD MONKEY RESEARCH
Dr Elisabeth G Mitchell of Howard University and the Smithsonian conducts pellagra serum experiments using five animals, with two monkeys dying and varying results in guinea pigs. She aims to develop a serum specific for pellagra, aided by Dr W C McNeill and Surgeon C H Lavender, as public health officials seek a cure.
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Elisabeth G. Mitchell
Howard University
Smithsonian Institution
Public Health Service
Elizabeth G. Mitchell
United States
Georgia
Mitchell
Cuba
Cornell
W C. McNeill
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Canned Egg Protest Targets Pure Food Law
Wholesale canned egg dealers in the city oppose the pure food law after a district agent from Armour & Co Chicago was fired over canned eggs found with foreign substances. They argue contamination can occur despite guard by packers and deny liability under the law. Cornwell says the eggs were canned in Chicago and arrived sealed, claiming no prior complaints of freshness or safety.
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Charles W. Cornwell
Armour & Co
Chicago
Cornwell
Engraving Division Hold First Annual Day At Chesapeake Beach
Members of the engraving division of the bureau of engraving and printing hold their first annual outing at Chesapeake Beach today. The program features relay races ten yard dashes polo races and other athletic events. Wire special cars have been chartered to carry the party. Director Ralph will address the gathering and present prizes.
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Engraving Division
Nihe Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Chesapeake Beach
Ralph
Friday Hoodoo Plays Into Marriage Licenses
In a city clerk office lesson on superstition, Friday the 23rd proved unlucky for lovers as clerks note Friday superstitions. A prospective groom questioned the date and contract, but after a clerk named Lemon confirmed the date and procedure, he returned hopeful to secure a marriage license for a Friday night ceremony.
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Lemon
Canada plans new bureau head named Gall in Washington
State Department officials approve a Canadian bureau with George H. Gall as secretary to speed diplomatic talks with Ottawa. Gall says he has no timetable or envoy identity yet and will lease a Massachusetts Avenue residence as the bureau’s future home. The new office will handle diplomatic questions while a prior bureau continues handling Western Canadian publicity.
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George H. Gall
New Bureau
Ottawa
State Department
Caheda
Washington
Strate Department
Bureau
Massachusetts Avenue
Sheridan Circle
Gall
Canada
Boosting Dixie Land for Southern Conference
Petersburg business men contribute 1001 to the Southern Commercial Congress headquartered there. Clarence J Owens reports Tennessee Coal and Iron Company becomes a sustaining member. G Grosvenor Dawe readies Atlanta conference for October 7 with delegates named by most Southern governors.
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Petersburg
Southern Commercial Congress
Birmingham
Ala
Clarence J. Owens
Congress
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
G. Grosvenor Dawe
Conference of Businessmen of the South
Atlanta
Freemasons to attend service at St Alban's Cathedral
Freemasons from 32 lodges will gather at St Alban's for a special cathedral service tomorrow afternoon. Bishop Harding invites the group to the Cathedral Close with the Grand Lodge escorted by five commanderies and the Marina Band leading the procession. Rev J Henning Nelms of the Church of the Ascension will deliver the sermon.
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Bishop Harding
Cathedral Close
Freemasons
Grand Lodge
Marina Band
J. Henning Nelms
Church of the Ascension
Volunteers Establish Southern Headquarters in Richmond
Maj. Fegrey to direct Volunteers of America operations in Richmond and New Orleans establishing rescue and industrial homes, a mission house, a day nursery, and an employment bureau. A large building at 22 Ht street NE will house the office with Maj. Ferley arriving from Buffalo. Ballington Booth leads VOA, a Salvation Army offshoot, and Mrs. Booth aids in prison rescue work as VOA expands across the South from Washington to implement new social services.
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Fegrey
Richmond
New Orleans
Capital
The
Volunteers of America
Salvation Army
F. C. Ferley
Buffalo
Ferley
New York City
Ballington Booth
William Both
London
Volunteers
West Twenty-eighth Street
United States
Volunteers of Americ
Maud Ballington Booth
New York
Washington
Fegley
Maj. Fegley
N. Y
American Salvation Army
Smuggling of drugs prompts prison investigations
Investigations by Newton Moore of the Department of Justice into Leavenworth Kansas reveal that opium, cocaine, whisky, and other contraband were being smuggled to prisoners by guards. The department orders inquiries into Atlanta Georgia and McNeill Island Washington State prisons after confirming a long running illicit trade at Leavenworth.
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Federal Penitentiary
Leavenworth
Kans
Newton Moore
Department of Justice
Atlanta
McNelill’s Island
Washington State
Moore
Stanley Finch
Mr. Finch
Vaccination Hearing In District Schools Amid Protest
A 3 PM hearing by the board of education committee at Franklin School will consider Charles Castle case over the denial of admission to Phelps School due to parents refusal to vaccinate. Attorneys Carr and Balderson, for the Castles and Antivaccination Society, argue the law is unconstitutional while Personal Liberty League joins the opposition. R L Henry faces possible arrest for noncompliance as he refuses vaccination for his children, ages 6 and 7, and other officials note attempts to enroll them have ceased. Henry insists on not vaccinating despite school attendance rules.
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Personal Liberty League
Board of Education
Ellen Spencer Mureey
Frenklin School
Charles Castle
Phelps School
Carr and
Balderson
Castles
Antivaccination Society
Bradley School
Henry
FE. K. Bushes
R. L. Henry
Thirteenth Street
Mr. Henry
Weather Conditions Report From U S Department of Agriculture
The Western disturbance is centered west of the middle Mississippi River with rain moving east, wetting central valleys and western lake regions. Showers occur in eastern districts and along the Atlantic coast while Rocky Mountain and Northwestern regions trend to fair weather. Temperatures rise across the corn belt with highs from the Ohio valley to Oklahoma, and Manitoba reports subzero to near 86 degree readings elsewhere. Winds vary by coast and lake, with showers expected in 24 to 48 hours between the Mississippi valley and Atlantic seaboard. Local weather data shows midnight and afternoon readings with overall sunshine.
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U_S
Corn Belt
Ohio
Oklahoma
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Mississippi Valley
Atlantic Seaboard
North Atlantic
New England
Middle Atlantic
South Atlantic
East Gulf
West Gulf Coast
Lake Superior
Huron
Michigan
Steamera
European
Interstate Commerce suspends grain advances to several states
An ICC order issued yesterday suspends proposed grain advances from Illinois Wisconsin Iowa Missouri Nebraska and Minnesota to stations in other states along the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis Railway route. Today’s Tide Table lists high tide at 11 35 a m low tides at 6 00 a m and 1 16 p m. Potomac River is clear and Shenandoah river very cloudy at Harpers Ferry West Virginia on September 23.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Harpers Ferry
W. Va
Potomac River
Shenandoah
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