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Last summer Robert Paine Scripps suffered a throat hemorrhage shortly after he arrived in Honolulu aboard his trim ketch Novia Del Mar. Mr. Scripps, frail in his youth but strong in later years, confided to friends that he feared he would some day bleed to death. Last week that grave fear became a fearful fact. Stricken with another hemorrhage while his yacht rolled in Magdalena Bay, Lower California, Robert Scripps died...
...despotic path has led them to degrade the Father of His country. No palliative, not even the soothing words of a Clay, can smooth over such an affront to national patriotism. In no time at all the Mayflower Society, D.A.R., and W.C.T.U. will be at Mr. Farley's Democratic throat...
...Monday last week a sandaled peasant woman wandered into an abandoned garage and found the body of an 8-year-old girl, Olga Comacho, daughter of a bartender. Her throat was slashed. She had been ravished while returning from the village meat market. Through all the flyspecked rabbit warrens of Tijuana the news spread and quickly more news followed: a soldier from the garrison had been caught with the package of meat Olga Comacho was bringing home...
...doctors in the U. S. may call himself a specialist, and some 25,000 do. The American Medical Association takes the word of its members and lists them in the Directory as surgeons, or public health specialists, or obstetricians, sensitively differentiating ophthalmologists (eyes) and otorhinolaryngologists (ear-nose-throat) from ophthalmo-otorhino-laryngologists (eye-ear-nose-throat). Chief criterion for specialists, other than their say-so, has been membership in one of the multitude of learned societies in Canada or the U. S.. such as the American Association of Obstetricians. Gynecologists & Abdominal Surgeons, or the Central Society for Clinical Research...
...Patron saints of physicians & surgeons are SS. Cosmas & Damian; of nurses, St. A.catha; of throat ailments, St. Blaise...