The Telephone Case a Crime of Blackmail and Trickery
Dr Philip Jensen receives an anonymous blackmail letter about a past scandal. O'Brien the lawyer demands 15 000 dollars with a looming deadline. Colonel Cheney and engineer Jimmie Elliott orchestrate a trap using a hidden telephone transmitter to force O'Brien to confess and concede.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O'Brien
Phil
O’brien
Jie
Jensen
Luther M. Miller
Dr. Jensen
Mr. Miller
Miller
John V. Cheney
Monad
Cheney
Lonergan
Mr. Elliott
George
James Elliott
Elliott
Jimmie
Tlcott
Ellicott
McGarry
Colonel Cheney
Philip Jensen
Colonel
Heney
Mr. O'Brien
Jimmie Elliott
Carnegie Medal Portraits Of Modern Local Lifesavers
Philadelphia special recounts Carnegie hero medals awarded nationwide with stories of Captain Mark Casto and crew rescuing sixty passengers from the Stratford bound Cherokee, Miss Lucy Ernst's rattlesnake bite rescue, and other acts by Gideon Marshall, George Williams, William Watkins, Louis Bauman, Edward Murray, John Delo, and Richard Hughes among valorous deeds and public recognitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Mark Casto
Alberta
Atlantic City
Casto
Schoenhut
Ernest
Cora Williams
George LB. Williams
Elizaith
Williams
Elizabeth
West Elizabeth
George J. Weigle
Weigle
William Watkins
Edwardsville
Luzerne County
Kingston
Kingston Coal Company
Joseph Winchent
Brinley R. Davis
Lees J. Williams
Gabriel Koloski
Koloski
Davis
Watkins
Louis A. Bauman
Roci
Penn Township
Allegheny County
Bauman
Lodi
Charles Stevick
Stevick
Yar
Ba Man
William Gfmer
First Street
Charleroi
James W. Gilmer
Workmayo
Carbon
Monongehela
Howard McCarney
McCarney
Gilmer
Edward Murray
Roosevelt
Murray
Jane Street
South Side
Monongahela
Pennsylvania Railroad
Margaret
Robert Lewis
Zery
Carson
Twenty-first Streets
John M. Delo
Oil City
Pac
Delo
Roy Englund
Englund
Old City
Richard Hughes
Slater
Bangor
John R. Owens
Hughes
Owens
Cliff
Nose-bleed cures and their unfounded methods
Dr. Hirshberg in the American Magazine notes popular medical fallacies about nose-bleed remedies. He argues most nose-bleeds stop naturally, and claims practices like pressing the lip or dropping ice down the neck are ineffective and illogical. He cites misapplied cause and effect and asserts shocks or blows do not reliably halt bleeding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hirshberg
Self-Repression and War Humor at San Juan Hill
General Joseph Wheeler recalls two Irish soldiers amid San Juan Hill fighting. A shell bursts, sparking bells and boasts as one lad loses his thumb while another laments with comic bravado. The scene ends with a remark on the drum as humanity’s first instrument.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Wheeler
San Juan Hill
Hivin
Pat
Tim Doolan
Poison Safety Advice for Home Use
General guidance for household poison prevention and first aid. Notes on measuring small amounts, storing poisons in blue bottles, and steps if poisoning occurs. Urges immediate dilution with water for skin exposure, alcohol for carbolic burns, milk and lime juice for ingestion, and simple emetic options like mustard and water. Recommends vinegar or lemon juice as antidotes for caustic substances.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Secret Service
Jasper Ewing Brady
Santaga de Cuba
W. G. Chapman
Eastern Medical School
Stirling
Harold O’brien
Wes
M'Brien
Brien
Carnegie
Atlantic
Clover Club
Nels Gregerson
Frederick Bouchie
Martus Nelson
Joseph M. Shute
Axal Holfmanist
Lewis J. Johnson
Pleasantville
Sarah A. Marshall
New Kensington
Gideon St. Marshal
Springdale
Marshall
Thomas WD. Mellon
Arthur Pruby
Fernand Villette
Truby
Marshal
Winchert
Lucy E. Ernst
Phila
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