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...their rites, making it impossible for the health officials of Nigeria to stamp out the plague. Dr. Shapara was initiated into the society and took part in its secret ritual in order to learn how to combat it. With this knowledge the Government of the colony was able to abolish the clan and to control smallpox...
...swept out of office at the last election, although all the rest of his ticket was elected. Governor Davis, who made opposition to the Industrial Court one of the chief issues of his campaign, was the lone Democrat elected. In spite of his election. Governor Davis could not abolish the Court- the legislature was entirely in the hands of his opponents. Now the Supreme Court has shorn the Industrial Court of much of its power, Governor Davis thinks the opportune moment has come. He announced that he was considering an extra session of the legislature to repeal the Industrial Court...
...Paris newspaper says that while people may be shocked by the proposal "it would be an act of charity to abolish the melancholy custom...
...civilization in America. This system, whereby convicts are delivered under contract to turpentine camps at $20 a head profit to the sheriff sending them there, whereby flogging of prisoners to death is a common occurrence, has been speedily condemned by the Florida legislature, which voted 31 to 1 to abolish convict labor contracts with private concerns...
State Senator Wicker was the only man voting against the measure. Said he: " There are lots of things I don't know anything about, but there are two things I do know about. They are mules and Niggers. You want to abolish the flogging of convicts, but I tell you corporal punishment is the only way a convict Nigger can be controlled...