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...walked Nancy Bowen, 66-year-old Cayuga Indian from the nearby Cattaraugus Reservation. She had confronted Mrs. Marchand, small, slight, with a question: "Are you a witch?" Jestingly Mrs. Marchand replied: "Yes." Thereupon Nancy Bowen beat her down with a 10? hammer, stuffed chloroform-soaked paper down her throat, left her dead...
Died. Edward Nelson Dingley, 67, economist, adviser to the U. S. Senate's Finance Committee; at Washington; of a malignant growth in the throat. Son of the late, tariff-writing Representative Nelson Dingley Jr. of Maine, he wrote many a magazine article on the tariff, was active in Michigan politics, formerly published the Kalamazoo Telegraph, the Kalamazoo Press. Early this winter the Senate Lobby Committee revealed that Mr. Dingley had received from the American Tariff League $1,541 for supplying research information on tariff activities and for contributing unsigned articles to the league's American Economist (TIME...
Died. Anna Parker Lowell. 72, wife of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University; at Cambridge, Mass.; after long illness from a throat affliction...
...this little work, and yet presented in so restrained a manner that the emotion aroused by them is equally quiet: a feeling of pity, not active and vigorous, but deep. There is little story, rather a structure of atmosphere and feeling. Two German soldiers, both shot in the throat so that they must breathe through silver tubes, and so whistle with every breath, occupy a room in a rear-line hospital. Another, younger man joins them; some time after this trio has formed its little community, an English prisoner, in the same predicament, is sent to them. The first blind...
Cold, sore throat, numbness in legs, paralysis in legs, violent illness. . . . Through this course 400 people in Oklahoma have run, 160 in Tennessee. Georgia and Mississippi. They suffer from a new paralysis for which doctors have been unable to determine either cause or cure. One sufferer, a four-year-old Oklahoma City girl went one step further, died...