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Engaged. Mrs. Elinor Priscilla Kershaw Ince, 45, relict of pioneer Cinema Producer Thomas Harper Ince; and Holmes Herbert, 47, cinemactor. Producer Ince's will left her $1,600,000 provided she did not remarry for seven years. He died in 1924, reputedly of angina pectoris, having been stricken while yachting with Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Cinemactress Marion Davies and others...
Trudging along with Mr. Gandhi, trying their best to follow him in act, word and thought, ten disciples were stricken with fever...
Prior to last week health officials had thought that contact with infected parrots was necessary to contract parrot fever. To explain the fact that three of the stricken researchers had not been within 30 ft. of a dead parrot, it was necessary to go off on a new tack. The new tack: parrot fever is extremely contagious...
...girl that Gandhi left behind him had plenty to do. In his Ashram ("college") on the Sabarmarti River, some 22 persons had been stricken with smallpox, three were already dead. What might ordinarily have been a crisis was overshadowed by the excitement attending the Mahatma's departure...
Jamaica ginger, which almost all of the stricken confessed drinking, has been mentioned as a cause. Jamaica ginger is an infusion of the peeled and ground roots of he ginger plant in alcohol. In medicine it s used internally to remove gas on the stomach. Many women use the candied root or the extract to soothe their periodic griping. Because Jamaica ginger gives a lot feeling to the stomach and because it contains alcohol it is like lemon extract, favorite tipple of inland drinkers unable to buy normal imported alcoholic beverages. They call Jamaica ginger "jake...