Kansas Woodmen Leaders Fight Over Readjustment Plan
Hon B E Murphy of Leavenworth chairs Modern Woodmen national board and will advocate rate readjustment at the head camp. His Kansas delegation supports readjustment, while Hon J D G Johnston of Peabody leads the opposing faction likely to contest the measure at the convention.
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B.E. Murphy
Leavenworth, Kam
Nattonal Board of Directors
Modern Woodmen of America
Kansas
Jd. G. Jonnaon
Peabody
Public playgrounds in New York offer vast summer learning
New York public schools run a nationwide model of summer vacation schools playgrounds and recreation centers under Miss EB Whitney. The program serves 2 100 children last summer with plans for 1 600 teachers this year 14 playgrounds 12 recreation piers and 9 baths up from last year. Activities include kindergarten open air areas, manual training, first aid and simple remedies, field trips, gardening, swimming, gymnasiums and literary clubs.
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New York
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Whitney
Nurgese
Board of Education
Cation
Manhattan
Billings
Brookyn
Maxwell
Rare Myelitis Stricken Girl Near Death at St Luke's
New York June 11 Miss Pauline Burkhardt a 16 year old girl of striking looks is dying at St Luke's Hospital from a rare spinal disease myelitis doctors say affects the spinal cord and membranes. Once healthy she suffered back pains then paralysis rose from her feet to her waist as experts diagnose inflammation of the marrow and membranes.
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New York
Pauline Burkhardt
St. Luke's Hospital
Spine pain from injury or hereditary factors reported
Tense pain along the spinal column accompanied by nervous or vascular irregularities of function. It is usually due to a fall or a blow on the spine, but sometimes comes from hereditary blood disease.
Wholesale Frauds Charged to Philadelphia Doctors
Sixty physicians in Philadelphia are charged by the district attorney with defrauding the poor by selling free antitoxin serum at inflated prices. Warrants issued for six, with more planned. The accounts commission cites this as a despicable fraud, urging swift legal punishment for the guilty. Evidence shows antitoxin sold to patients at 7 cents to 5 dollars each, rather than free.
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New York
District Attorney’s Office
Mayer
Low
Commissioners of Accounts
Kiesel
Doctors exploit poor patients with costly diphtheria serum
The Board of Health reports physicians charging poor families for antitoxin by a scheme that begins with a $1 examination, followed by a $4 to $6 charge for the serum. Parents, desperate to save their children, pawn possessions to pay, while some doctors claim the serum is necessary and expensive.
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Board of Health
Million a Month and the Word Million
A humorous sample ad copy extols Cascarets Candy Candies as the world’s most popular laxative. It claims millions of boxes monthly, 16,000,000 tablets yearly, and a nationwide reach from Chicago to New York, ending with a mail-order pitch.
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Chicago
New York
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