From sponge and opium to modern anesthesia
The piece traces ancient anesthesia using opium and hemp in Asia and Europe, cites Guy de Chauliac and Hugo of Lucca, and notes the shift after 100 years ago with ether and nitrous oxide. It highlights the printing press spreading knowledge and places anesthesia around a million dollars in annual Pennsylvania hospital expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asia
Warth
Columbus
Europe
Guy de Chauliac
Hugo
Lucca
Pennsylvania
Prominent doctor Dr Charles Edward Keeler dies at 67
Noted Hiderton physician and longtime Sabbath School superintendent Dr Charles Edward Keeler died at his home after a five week illness. Funeral services will be held Thursday at Biderton M B church with interment at Hiderton cemetery. He leaves a widow Margaret and four daughters plus extensive family. An obituary continues with other local deaths and public notices including a Shelocta woman Annie Caroline Sell and Mrs William Munshower. The piece also notes four county men appointed to state positions in the Liquor Control Board and other posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles BE
Keeler
Biderton
Clarion State Teachers College
Baltimore Medical College
Daga
Hiderton
M. ®. Church
Margaret
Linsingbigler) Keeler
Vida Zacharias
New Kensington
Elmer
Sylvester
Harry Keeler
John
Erwine Keeler
Blanche Bhenger
Della Harklerood
Daisy Crawford
Carrie Hoover
Annie Caroline Sell
Shelocta -United Presbyterian Church
Oakland Cemetery
Shelocta
W. E. Sell
Elizabeth (Edwards) Sell
Duff Edwards
Wilmer Miller
Leonard Miller
William
Robert
Mary Jane
Charles Sell
Sheloca
William A. Munshower
Blairsville
Derry Township
Joseph Pender
M. E. Church
Elizabeth Willard
New Florence
John Munshower
Cokeville
Grace Hullenbaugh
Paul Munshower
Fred Pender
John Pender
Johnstown
James Pender
Friedens
The Book Agent and the Potters’ Sharker Purchase
Simon Potter buys a flashy self help book from a pushy agent who claims cures for rheumatism and other ailments. His wife Sarah warns it’s a sharker. Abbie Leighton exposes the scam after Simon brags about his purchase and it lands them in comic embarrassment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah
Simon
Simon Potter
Abbie
Sarey
Old Doe Johnson
Fleve
Million Golf in Britain Costs and Club Economics
A London correspondent cites that Britain has millions in golf participants including 250 000 women, spending about 150 million dollars annually. Subscriptions reach 22.5 million, balls cost 7.5 million, clubs and repairs 18.25 million, caddies 10 million, travel 50 million, and meals 42.5 million. Top women spend 1 500 dollars yearly, men about 2 000. There are 2 000 clubs, 200 in London. Many clubs run deficits, and under 400 members cannot profit. municipal courses pay more for regular players.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
London
England
Glasgow Extortionist Attempted Fraud Case
A Glasgow man, Thomas Mitchell of Meron Street, was jailed for three months after posing as harmed by a supposed bread contamination to claim compensation. He presented a portion of bread he claimed held a dead rat, later found to be a singed rabbit pelt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glasgow
Thomas Mitchell
Meron Street
Wats
Daa
Ghigeyn
Hamilton Bares New Deal Fears
Chicago report on John D. M. Hamilton as Republican National Committee chair launching the 1936 campaign. He denounces Roosevelt’s New Deal as a payroll‑driven misrule, mocks Democratic platform imitations, and warns of heavy taxation harming small business while praising Farley. Large Chicago dinner drew 3,000 attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ill
John D. M. Hamilton
Republican National Committee
West
Roosevelt
Republican Finance Committee
Tlinois
Americas
Hamilton
New Deal
Farley
James A. Farley
NRA
Crooked Creek Church Services and Fourth of July Visits
Church services at Crooked Creek next Sunday at 9 45 with Sunday school at 10 45. Families visiting and guests from Barr Portersville Girard Indiana Clearfield Iowa Ernest Ewang City and related households marked a busy Fourth of July with relatives and neighbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chambersville
Crooked Creek
Frank Kirk
North Point
Paul Brady
H. Over
Gene
Dorothy
Barr
Howard Brady
Portersville
Harry Over
Dickie
Girard, O
Bonatch
Chas
Brady
Beers
Avon
Clearfield
Kinter
Indiana
Watt
Paul Blue and Sons
Sammy
John
Iowa
Wm. Downey
Bernice Bouch
Ernest
Bebe Kirk
al Kinghorn
Ewfang City
William Downey
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Roosevelt - Landon
James J. Walters
Luxenberg
Indiana County
Pennsylvania Threshermen and Farmers Mutual. Casualty Insurance Co
Harrisburg, Pa
R. D. NO
Homer City
Willis & Henderson Floral Company
Wayne Ave
Indiana, Pa
Carnevelt
Carla Carnevet
Woodburn Granite Works
Sooth College Avenue
Penna
Harry C. Commers
J. C. Myers
Tioga Falls
James Shields
Cavode
Myers
Punxautawney
Frank
Salamanca
N. Y
William McGinis
W. A. Lewis
Burt Shields
Emma Stear
Marion Center
Scott Shields
Coavyode
W. A. Baughman
George Varner
Fairview
Harman C. Coalmer
Roy Gance
Gipsy
Montgomery Township
George C.hamilton
Samuel R. Shaheen
Clymer
Murray D. Smith
Liquor Control Board
Jan Duffalo
Lucerne
Mines
Tair
Diamond Centre
Bure
Otier
Wade
Hly
Topeka
Kas
Extes Park
Alf M. Landon
America
Penney
Penney’s Co. Penney Company, Incorporated
Coleman
Indiana Hardware
Phila, Bt
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