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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1907
Page
5
Researchers from the National Society for the Study and Treatment of Epilepsy seek a uniform definition and cure after a Richmond convention. Experts argue epilepsy relates to mind as well as body and a global standard could end prisoner-like treatment and improve humanitarian care.
Miss Laurence Alma-Tadema, daughter of the artist, lectures in New York on happiness. She says happiness comes from self effort and curtailing desire, not wealth or marriage, and stresses breathing, chewing, hydration, and healthy living as a creed.
A minor note reports the Central Hotel at Colon Panama burned with estimated loss of 3000 dollars. The brief item also mentions a fire in the York building in Boston causing substantial damage to several manufacturing firms and to a business owner associated with a tiger.
Short news notes report Countess of Warwick stating America's hope lies in socialism upon returning to London. Other items note a Petersburg furniture company fire with $75,000 loss, a New York County rare murder conviction of photographer Peter Giannone, a grand jury decision in Oakland freeing Harry Kleinschmidt, Hopkinsville tensions over night riders targeting factories, and Allan Corey reconciling with William Ellis Corey.
A report to the New York Academy of Medicine shows Dr Simon Flexner’s meningitis serum achieving 72.3 percent cure rate across treated cases. The disease often ends within forty eight hours after serum injection. Cases were treated in diverse parts of the country.
Chicago Chief of Police Shippy issues a special permit to Miss Dorothy Stewart, 22, allowing her to wear the multi pointed police star and exercise full authority of a policeman. She will be in full uniform at the Auditorium Theater to supervise safety and comfort of women and children.
The article describes Munsterberg and colleagues’ so called truth machines. It details a graphing device recording involuntary muscle and finger movements, a breathing variation indicator, and an electrical heart action monitor. The instruments claim to reveal concealed deceit under stress.
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