Burns Dies in 1796 After Fever Harassed by Collector
Poet Robert Burns died of rheumatic fever in late 1796 while tormented by a bill collector. His reported last words condemn the pursuer: That damned rascal, Matthew Penn.
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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1998
Page
2
Poet Robert Burns died of rheumatic fever in late 1796 while tormented by a bill collector. His reported last words condemn the pursuer: That damned rascal, Matthew Penn.
Paula Jones, the former Arkansas secretary who sued President Clinton, was seen leaving a New York plastic surgery office with a heavily bandaged nose. The $9,000 procedure followed prior cosmetic work and tooth repair. It remains unclear who funded the surgery as Jones and her husband faced unemployment pressures.
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The Herald Journal urges readers to report errors to Tim Bunn at 470-2240 and provides a long list of toll free numbers for Syracuse area readers and county offices. It also states delivery guarantees by 3 pm and customer service hours, inviting calls to 470-0050 for missed papers and outlining ad and classifieds contact points.
The reader compares Cornelius Vanderbilt’s historic 105 million to Bill Gates’s 40 billion, estimating how Vanderbilt’s wealth would have grown since 1877 at 10 percent annually. Using 1997 as a benchmark, Vanderbilt would be worth about 267 times Gates, illustrating immense historic wealth disparities.
Harriet Fonda Warren 91 of Omaha helped launch Henry and Peter Fonda’s careers after aiding the Omaha Community Playhouse since 1824. Reyes Serrano 87, California vaquero and hunter, died in Lake Forest of pneumonia and heart attack. William Bertsche 79, translator of contracts from 12 languages, died July 11 in New York or Native.
A local obituary page lists many ages and names including Helen M Arthur 83, Mary H Beagle 84, Julia Boyd 55, Ann C Brown 79, Richard D Burns 56, and others with ages ranging from 25 to 94. The notice assembles a broad slate of recent deaths for community recording.
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