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...Pittsburgh last week Mike Rusco's mad dog bit him. He violently refused Pasteur treatment: "Any man who dies from a dog bite is a weakling. I'm not worried. All I want to do is get my hands on the guy who killed my dog on account of the bite...
Laws on personal liberty permit a man to refuse serums if he does not want them. Hence Pittsburgh's Director of Health, Dr. Charles Buckley Maits had to wait until Mike Rusco, 45, should develop rabies as he was practically certain to do. Then, since there is no cure, but only prevention for rabies, when Mike Rusco's bite or froth from his mouth becomes dangerous to the community. Dr. Maits would imprison him "until the inevitable end comes...
Died. Major Michael A. ("Dynamite Mike") Kelly, War Commander of the 3rd (Shamrock) Battalion of the 165th Regiment, holder of the Croix de Guerre, the Cross of the Legion of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross; by his own hand, accidentally, while cleaning his service pistol; in Manhattan...
...another closed through fear. Thirty purveyors of cheap alcohol were held under $2,500 bail for arraignment before a Federal grand jury. In almost every case, the alcohol in evidence was of the type used to keep automobile radiators from freezing. Despite the reassuring names of some "smoke" salesmen (Mike Whiskey, Frank Barri), almost all 30 were dealing in liquid death...
...Whirlwind, owned by Paul L. Hammond's and Langdon Ketchum Thome's syndicate, a beamy, heavy boat with a white hull and green underbody, a pointed stern and "No. 3" on her sails; Enterprise, No. 4, owned by the Vice Commodore Winthrop W. Aldrich and Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt syndicate, with Mr. Vanderbilt sailing her; Weetamoe, owned by Rear Commodore Junius Spencer Morgan's and George Nichols' syndicate, white and bronze, No. i; and the old boats, Gerard Barnes Lambert's Vanitie, and E. Walter Clark's Resolute, both sailed by their owners. There...