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Valuable though less spectacular has been Dr. Williams' work in poliomyelitis, meningitis, influenza. Of late years she has been studying the streptococci which cause scarlet fever, erysipelas, puerperal (childbed) fever, septic sore throat. Last week she did not want to stop. New York physicians agreed that her work should not be interrupted. Dr. Williams' famed chief, Dr. Williams Hallock Park, who resisted a retirement move when he reached 70 last December, did not see how he could spare her. Said he: "We have very good bacteriologists in the department, but they haven't the breadth of view...
When the Louisville Courier-Journal was owned and edited by the late "Marse" Henry Watterson, he thought nothing of calling Theodore Roosevelt "as sweet a gentleman as ever scuttled a ship or cut a throat." President Roosevelt thought nothing of it either. When he returned to private life, he and Watterson dined together on the best of terms. Last week the acting editor of the Courier-Journal, now owned by Robert Worth Bingham, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, got into a serious scrape for much less daring impudence...
...inspect his oil cups. There was blood on the driving wheels. Railway police started down the track. A few minutes later they found the body of Judge Prince. Several trains must have, passed over him. One ankle was tied to the track. There was a knife wound in his throat. His money was still in his pockets. But all incriminating papers had been removed from his briefcase. Next morning Mme Prince received a telegram signed with the judge's name saying that his mother's operation had been successful...
...Catholic churches his blessing was given to those desiring cure or prevention. Holding aloft two crossed candles priests intoned: "Per intercessionem Sancti Blasii liberet te Deus a malo gutteris et a quovis alio malo" (May God at the intercession of St. Blasius preserve you from throat trouble and every other evil...
...cageful of pedestaled lions & tigers, took the chance of turning his back on them, jumped into the fight. Bang! Bang! Crack! His blank gun, whip and chair were useless. Assistants trained a suffocating fire-hose stream on the fighters. Sammy had his great jaws deep in Bessie's throat. Trainer Beatty grabbed a piece of iron pipe, wrapped his fingers in Sammy's mane, whacked him again & again over the head. After ten minutes Sammy let go. Bessie rolled over dead...