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But to her sister, Mrs. McDonald, the money only meant increased tragedy. Immediately the check arrived her husband quit his job to enjoy the sudden affluence. When she protested, there were quarrels; finally a separation. Her one concern now is for her two-small children, and for their education the bulk of her money has been transferred to a trust fund.But the fifth and last fights back at fate. No acceptance of science’s word for Grace Fryer. She holds her job with a Newark trust company, her money invested as though she were providing against a ripe old age. Her outlook is unchanged. If anything she is more interested in life, and in rallying her four friends. She is the irreconcilable one, intelligently following every effort of the experts who are striving hard to stave off fate.Doctor Explains Cases.But Dr. Harrison S. Martland, who has followed the cases from their inception and led the search for a solution, says:“For a time after the radium salts reach the bone, the subject aituajiy feels better than normal. But the constant bombardment of the alpha rays emanating from the salts eventually breaks down the blood-forming centers. Anemia develops and the condition spreads.”Science knows what occurs, but it doesn’t know—-yet, at least—how to forestall or remedy it. *“Nothing we know will counteract the condition,” says Doctor Martland.
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Reporter Boyden
Boyden, Iowa, US
Thu, Jan 10, 1929
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