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Superintendent Dr. Clarence Alden Bonner suspected that a madman, deliberately or accidentally, filled the kitchen sugar cans with deadly cockroach exterminator which the Danvers State Hospital uses in vast quantities and which looks exactly like powdered sugar...
Soups and serums were soon on their way to Nome when the Coast Guard ordered three vessels of the Bering Sea patrol to proceed there at once and share supplies with stricken inhabitants, who by this time were huddled in rude barracks and eating in a community kitchen. A food-laden boat was hurrying up from Seattle. Alaska Steamship Co., aware that not more than two round trips could be made to Nome before the Arctic winter clamped down, cut rates on food and building material in half. Luckiest break for Nome, however, was a Lomen boat which had just...
...middle-man can find few skillful firers. Bertha Warshovsky, Chicago's most expert firer, knows most of arson's middlemen. Some ten years ago she began to make money by fabricating and selling to arsonists a gadget consisting of a short candle tightly bound with kitchen matches. Price: $5 to $10. Later when she found that women were less suspect in arson cases than men, she began to use her own gadget. Her price was anything up to $250 per fire...
Tonsillectomy used to be a "kitchen chair" operation. Now in the hands of a throat specialist it entails all the pomp and ceremony of a major operation. At the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital, Surgeon David H. Jones related, an interne makes a preoperative examination of the patient's skin, nose, throat, ears, heart, lungs and kidneys. Continued Dr. Jones, "All patients with any suspected involvement, including rise in temperature over 100.4° F., are held for final examination by the Tonsil Supervisor. No patients are operated upon following a recent illness and no female patient is operated upon...
...brawling; broken a leg; had four street accidents; lost the fortune he made in Wartime junk by speculation, his wife by divorce and his good friend Mabel ("Queen of Diamonds") Boll by marriage. To end his string of failures, Flier Levine turned on the gas jets of a Brooklyn kitchen. Forty minutes later a rescue squad informed him that his suicide had failed...