Naval mystery: Rostrom identity claimed for unknown patient
In Rochester Minnesota a hospital patient known as Richard Roe is thought to be Lieutenant Jacob R. Rostrom of the U S Navy, a Spanish American War veteran. Edward Vogt of Newark cites a Newark Star photo and writes Rostrom’s name. Doctors weigh memory loss treatment against confirming Rostrom’s true identity and notifying the Navy.
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Jacob R. Bostrom
Newark, N. J
Minnesota Hospital
Rochester
Minn
State Hospital
C. R
Richard Roe
Jacob R. Rostrom
United States Navy
Rostrom
A. F. Kilbourne
J. C
Jacob
Vogt
Mary
Kilbourne
Navy Department
Morning News Briefs Highlight Local Events And Incidents
A patchwork of items includes a police shooting report, a medical note on a traumatized actor, a customs official’s Chinese wedding report, veterans memorial services, a liner death, a Sultan’s musician obituary, and a closed sanatorium. Also noted are politics with Sulzer, stray cat debates, a women’s game stoppage, and naval legal moves. Other items reference a grand master, pole vaulting, striker urges, and canal valuation theory amid railroad discussions.
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Friedmann
Woliceman
Cohalan
Charles Medley
Sultan
Bull
Sulzer
Ith Abraham
Janeson
Death sentence revoked as McCutcheon shows recovery hope
Chicago May 25 W L McCutcheon an automobile salesman who by mistake took three tablets of bichloride of mercury, initially faced death but doctors after examination concluded most poison was removed from his stomach and he likely will recover. He remains under medical watch while his condition stabilizes and vows to live, not die.
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Chicago
W. L. McCutcheon
McCutcheon
Suteheon
J. Sanders Walker
Macon
Auto Rescue Kills Two in Meadville Car Crash
Two Meadville men Thomas L Riordan and Edwin Bender, both twenty three, died when their auto overturned near Sacertown and caught fire. Clyde Kaler survived afterescaping gas ignited by a lantern as farmers tried to lift the burning car.
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Temme
Meadville
Menn
Thomas L. Riordan
Edwin Bender
Sackertown
Clyde Kaler
Kaler
Riordan
Bender
Belam
Drownings and Panic on Philadelphia Camden Ferry
A steel ferryboat Wildwood on the Philadelphia to Camden route sank its forward section after an automobile back fired triggering panic. One man drowned, two injured, and about 300 people were thrown into a panic as a second car crashed through front gates. Buckley family members and Mica Nellie Simpson were aboard the Buckley auto. William Goss from Philadelphia was swept overboard and drowned. Buckley was arrested pending prosecutor Kraft’s investigation.
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Auto
Camden
N. J
Wildwood
Pennsylvania Railroad
Philadelphia
Cramen
Charles H. Buckley
Woodland Terrace
Frederick Buckley
Augusta Simpson
South
3D Street
Mica Nellie Simpson
William F. Goss
27Th Street
Cumden
Buckley Auto
Proscutor Kraft
Kraft
Buckley
Auto Crash At East View Fatal For Three
Three injured in a two car collision on State Road near the County House East View Westchester County shortly after noon. Frederik Hunt Port Chester skull fracture and internal injuries with poor prognosis. Mrs Hunt and Mrs George Smith Pleasantville suffer facial head lacerations and bruises. Smith car driven by Foster Clark from White Plains owned by Kelsey Smith went over embankment and fence destroying sunken garden.
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Inggeu
East View
Westechester
Frederik Hunt
Port Chester
Frederick Hunt
George Smith
Pleasantville
Seinty House
Hunt
Kelsey Smith
White Plains
Foster Clark
Smith
Charalter
George 1. Smith
Fant
Betsy the Brown Mery Leads Militant Wagon Protest
Betsy a Brown Mery attracted to an express wagon took part in a militant demonstration against automobiles yesterday afternoon. From Pennsylvania Station to 82nd Street and Fifth Avenue scenes of vandalism unfolded as three cars were attacked and more potential victims faced danger. A police intervention stopped Betsy before she caused further harm. Police dragged Betsy to safety and escorted the driver to the station, returning Betsy to the stable via side streets.
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Betsy
Pennsylvania Station
82D Street
Fifth Avenue
West 10Th Street
Seventh Avenue
Bint Street
Elizabeth Daly
Conroy
Suuhie
Appleton Mayor Added as Co-defendant in Sterilization Suit
In Appleton Wisconsin on May 25 Mayor J V Canavan former county physician is named co defendant with George R Downer superintendent of the Outagamie County Asylum for the Insane in a $10000 damage suit brought by Victor Reiner guardian of John Repfeldt who underwent sterilization as an asylum inmate two years ago Repfeldt has since recovered and is able to work The case draws interest as authorities consider sterilization laws and precedent is claimed to be without precedent in related states.
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Appleton
Wis
J. V. Canavan
George R. Downer
Outagamie County Asylum For the Insane
Victor Reiner
John Repfeldt
Repfeldt
Downer
Policeman Shot in Cliffside Vaudeville Case
Patrolman Patrick Considine shot by James Devlin a vaudeville actor in his Cliffside home Hudson Heights. Considine, thirty four, believed dying. revolver belonged to Considine. Mrs Devlin and Annie Devlin held as witnesses. Devlin jailed. Investigation ongoing with liquor influence noted.
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North Hudson
Hellstein
Richard J. Fox
W. V. A. Blanvelt
Considine
Fox
Hanoi
Cette
Devlin
Mackensick
Mra. Devlin
Annie Devlin
Herman A. Berg
Devlins
Mra. Devin
Mra
Ellwood & Co
Hammerstein's
New York City
Cliffside
Narrow escape as aviator falls from flight
Mas George Hamilton of Reno narrowly escaped instant death in Long Island when his iron tubed monoplane flipped at about 100 feet, crushing him under wreckage. He suffered a scalp wound, facial and chest cuts, and contusions but remained alive and was taken to Nassau Hospital for treatment.
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Long Island
George Hamilton
Reno
New
Hamilton
Nassau Hospital
Mrs Jack Gardner Set For Boston Circus Elephant Ride
Boston society leader Mrs Jack Gardner will ride a circus elephant next Tuesday at Mrs Larz Andersons Brooks Hill estate in a Persia themed charity pageant for the Massachusetts Babies Hospital. Hamilton Fish Jr will ride as bodyguard if another elephant is obtained. The event features 250 amateurs in costume, camels, and elaborate roles among Boston society figures.
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the Tribune
Boston
Jack Gardner
Trinity Church
Larz Anderson
Brooksline
Massachusetts Bubles’ Hospital
Hamilton Fish, Jr
Gardner
Mr. Fish
Persia
Tlra
John ©. Fairchild
Alfred Codman
Joseph Linden Smith
Augustus Po Gardiner
Charles
Auto Stall and Tragic Jump Claim Woman's Death
A Bellevue Hospital ambulance stalled on 14th Street night crisis left a dying woman unnamed until arrival. Mrs Anna Cartto, 25, of Avenue B, leaped from a fourth floor window after a quarrel with husband James. Doctors said delay likely fatal.
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Bellevue Hospital
14Th Street
Hellevic
Anna Cartto
Avenue B
James
Baseball by Aeroplane Delights Pawtucket Crowd
Jack McGee the aviator thrilled a big Pawtucket crowd by circling the diamond dropping baseballs to players. He flew from Tamford twelve miles away in under twelve minutes, startling the field and prompting a crowd rush onto the sod. Third baseman Harry Linwky made a notable catch before McGee halted the plane, bending a field upright in the maneuver.
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Rye Vrimune
Pawtucket
Jack" McGee
Tamford
McGee
Harry Linwky
Woman escapes bomb threat at New York tenement
Mary Goldstein opened her door to a wax fuse and alarmed cries of bomb as a man in Paterson New Jersey emailed a marriage proposal. A policeman disarmed the fuse while Goldstein, praised as brave, considered the suitor who signed as William C. Dalton from North Uth Street.
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Mary Acumen
Mimont Hundred
Chrystie Street
Miss Goldstein
Jeter
Pastor tears IWW flag in sermon at Siloam Church
In Philadelphia a Methodist pastor Rev A M Vivien displayed and tore apart an Industrial Workers of the World flag during a sermon at Siloam Church. He called the flag a symbol of anarchy and lawlessness and stomped on fragments before unveiling an American flag and declaring it the only true flag.
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the Tribune
Philadelphia
Siloam Methodist Episcopal Church
A.M. Vivien
Industrial Workers of the World
Vivien
Eight Men Donate Skin to Save Nutley Boy’s Life
Nutley New Jersey reports William Colwell ten years old underwent his second skin graft after eight New York men donated skin from arms to his back. Doctor Edward WheLan plans additional grafts as about eighty more square inches are needed to complete the treatment begun two weeks ago.
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Nutley
Dr. Whelan
Benjamin Cotwell
Taad
Mack
William F. Wallace
Walter Fair
James Miller
Manhattan
Board of Health
Colwell
Vreeland Avenue
Fight arena in flames after McCarty death in Calgary
A prizefight arena in Calgary Alberta burned to the ground after Luther McCarty was fatally injured yesterday in a match with Arthur Pesky. Tommy Burns's arena sustained total destruction as investigators assessed the blaze.
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Luther McCarty
Calgary
Alb
Tommy Burns
Arthur Pesky
Baby Born in Ambulance on Third Avenue Train
A son was born to Mrs Sophie Linker yesterday afternoon while en route to Lincoln Hospital in an automobile ambulance. The Bronx couple live at 125 Bathgate Avenue. They were on a Third Avenue S train when the birth occurred, the mother and baby both doing well.
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Sophie Linker
Lincoln Hospital
Poor results from turtle germs shock New York hospitals
Physicians report that Dr. Friedrich Friedmann’s turtle germ treatment for tuberculosis shows nine out of ten cases worsening, with only three of thirty three Bellevue patients showing outward improvement. Records indicate disease progression despite some weight gain and mixed symptom changes. Bellevue and other hospitals show no clear cure. a few patients report weight gain or symptom shifts, while a meningitis case worsened. Free clinic day announced for Friedmann Institute with appointment system.
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New York
Friedrich Friedmann
Bellevue Hospital
Bellevue
Friedmann
Seton
Mount Sinai
Montefiore
Rundy
Friedmann Institute
103D Street
West End Avenue
French Physiologist Demonstrates Pearl-Forming Micrococcus
Professor Raphael Dubois of the University of Lyons reports experiments showing a micrococcus that forms pearls in oysters may kill the tuberculosis bacillus. Infected guinea pigs recovered, with one surviving after ten months. no conclusions are claimed yet, but potential TB eradication implications are noted.
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Paris
Raphael Duboin
University of Lyons
Dubois
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