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...Society of Red Bank, N. J., fell ill of a pain in her stomach. She called a Christian Science healer and later reported herself "gloriously healed." A few weeks later she died. A licensed doctor refused to issue a death certificate. Thereupon the county physician, accompanied by a police sergeant, went to the home of the deceased, procured the body, performed an autopsy, declared that Mrs. Lampkin had died of peritonitis caused by a gallstone which had ruptured the lining of her stomach and that an operation would most certainly have saved her life. The county physician, Harvey W. Hartman...
Thus ended a ten-day search for Major Frederick L. Martin and his mechanic, Staff Sergeant Alva L. Harvey. Major Martin was commander of the U. S. Army air fleet of four planes set out to circumnavigate the world (TIME, March...
Arrangements have been made for officers of the law, acting under the direction of the Chief Sergeant-at-arms, to prevent disorder among the delegates and spectators; a number of boy scouts of Troop 10, Boston, to act as ushers and pages; and in addition to the regular reporters, a stenographer to take a verbatim record of the proceedings...
...without a lubricating oil. It is the same with History. One cannot write a history consisting only of anecdotes and sidelights, but a history without these is barren, inadequate, unpalatable. So it is not a history that David S. Barry, onetime Senate page, longtime newspaper correspondent, and more recently Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, has written in his memoirs of four decades at the Capitol. He has furnished one of the lubricants of history...
...huge Vickers Amphibian left the waters of the Calshot airdrome near Southampton for a flight of 25,000 miles 'round the world. Squadron Leader A. Stuart MacLaren, Flying Officer J. Prenderleigh and Sergeant Andrews had a telegram from the King, enthusiastic plaudits from the crowd, loud shouts of "Beat the Yanks!" to speed them on their way. As the amphibian soared above Southampton, a huge fleet of vessels of all descriptions, including several transatlantic liners, filled the air with shrill siren blasts...