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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1920
Page
8
A New York article reports Dr. Max Schlapp linking crime to mental irregularities and blood chemistry. He argues many offenders are not responsible and that treatment, not punishment, could reduce crime, with therapies targeting glands and chemical offsets.
In Los Angeles a court ordered the owner to pay 1600 dollars plus 1500 dollars in damages after a pet chimpanzee attacked Milton Lindley a child. The court found the animal negligently at large and entering the boy's home injuring him before restraint. Knowlton of Pasadena must pay 100 dollars for filing a frivolous appeal.
In Trussellville Kentucky Bird McCormick marks his seventy second birthday. Confined to a chair for forty years but praised as a well loved neighbor helped by many friends at the celebration.
Indiana headlines report a unanimous rejection of a live stock yard representation proposal by the Indianapolis Live Stock Exchange. Other items note tax debates, proposed school pay raises, farming cooperatives, fatalities from a gasoline explosion, prison investigations, flood damage near Vincennes, and legislative moves across the state.
Mrs. Lillian Tharp of Carrollton Kentucky describes a two year struggle with female weakness that left her unable to walk or work. After months with a physician and various remedies she took Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, using twelve then six bottles more. She reports lasting improvement, returning to work as a State Hospital attendant and recommending the remedy to friends. She invites readers to write for free advice from Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Massachusetts.
A dialogue features a doctor and judge debating treatment for a person who ate a spoiled fish to prevent stomach upset. The patient argues swallowing spoiled fish was unavoidable and asks for a remedy, while the medical and legal figures acknowledge stomach issues but doubt any cure for the spoiled fish itself.
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