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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1920
Page
11
In Baltimore on July 16, Dr Walter E Dandy of Johns Hopkins reports a breakthrough for brain operations. He describes a three stage procedure to reach the third ventricle and remove tumors restoring speech and mobility, aided by air channels to prevent paralysis or death.
London July 16 Jack Plummer director of Reading football club died recently and requested burial in a white coffin. The wish was granted.
In Brighton on July 16 Harry Wilfred Broad aged 15 killed himself with a pistol. Inscribed on his skin above the wound was the message Good-bye, all Harry.
The rat infestation on Foulness Island near Essex grew to enormous proportions after a relief ship carrying grain stranded last year. Rat nourishment boosted the pest population, leaving the island alive with rodents through the winter and causing extensive damage.
Ossining N Y July 16 inmates in the Death House complain a fellow prisoner snores loudly disturbing their sleep They ask that Samuel Mickalow the noisemaker be moved to the old Death House Melbourne Australia July 16 whale products will be marketed soon canned at Eden N S W for sale this season
NEW YORK July 14 The largest single package ever mailed will depart for France this week. Sculptor Paul W. Bartlett arranged with US and French postal offices to ship four bas reliefs of the Knights of Columbus Lafayette statue. Each relief weighs 4,400 pounds and depicts Wilson Pershing Marshal Foch and Columbus. The statue is incomplete and the reliefs will be attached to the pedestal in Metz.
Paris July 16 French interest in petrol grows after discovery of two oil wells in Ilaute Bavole frontier department. One find is expected to yield 26 000 gallons a minute.
Wilmington court refuses Mrs. Hopper Biddle's request to raise support for herself and two children. She argues nine cats in the family add to necessities to be funded.
London reports Mrs. Grant involved in a case described as notes in an oven leading to burning or attempted arson as part of a dramatic episode. Details are sparse in the readable fragment.
Ham, wife of a baker, hid $590 in an oven for safekeeping but forgot. While cooking a roast, she discovered the money burned after opening the oven door.
Banks in Sydney oppose the government plan to mint square pennies saying odd shapes will be hard to handle and confuse customers. The July 16 report notes bankers warn of practical difficulties in circulation and vending.
Horace Hartup was sentenced to months of hard labor at a letchley prison for not providing sufficient food for his family of six, the youngest seven months old. In Evansville, Floyd W. Lantaff, 45, fell 45 feet from a wheelbarrow and died after the ground gave way at a well.
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