Evening journal

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Southerner Recommends Negro.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 Secretary

of War Dickinson has indorsed a ne

gro for office.

"U may seem strange that a South

erner should do this," he explained to

soma friends today, "but the man Is

an applicant for a post abroad. His

name Is Y er bo and bp wants to bo Min

ister to Haiti. The main point Is that

he has told me In a letter that ho n

native of Tennessee. "Now," eonclud

d the Secretary, with a smile, "I con

sider that a sufficient reason for any

Tennessean to recommend a negro Ten

nessean for offlee."

IMPURE MILK

KILLED BABIES

Twelve Deaths of Little Ones

in a Home During the

Past Mouth

PAWTUCKET, R. I., Nov. «-Twenty

two homeless bebles here died at ths

Myrtle Baby Home on Pawtucket avenue.

East Providence, overlooking Natragan

et I Bay, sinoa June IT, twelve of the

deaths having bean In the lest month. Dr.

Gardner T. Swarta, Secretary of the State

Hoard of Health, has begun an Investiga

tion.

According to Dr. William T. Knoop ef

Providence, the visiting physician, the

deaths can be traced to a single ease of

condensed milk. Samples of this milk In

the hands ef the State Board are said to

hare shown the presence of highly dele

terious bacteria.

The matter was first brought to the at

tentlon of ths State autbertllea some days

ago by Frank T. Calet, Over peer ef the

Poor In Beat Providence. Ha noticed that

the death rate at the Myrtle heme was

unduly large, and that the causes ap

peared In the reports as "malnutrition."

"convulsions," "Intestinal Indigestion."

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening journal. (1909). Wilmington, Del., 1909-11-19. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85042354/1909-11-19/ed-1/?sp=7

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening journal, 1909-11-19.