Remarkable Tongue and Throat Cancer Operation at New York Hospital
A colored man, 38, underwent a complex three-stage operation for cancer of the tongue and throat at New York Hospital. Surgeons performed tracheotomy, throat dissection, and removal of the tongue with wide vascular control, followed by antiseptic dressings. Doctors warn life may extend about eighteen months, even under successful outcome.
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Tribune
New ‘York Hospital
General Grant
Markoe
New York Hospital
Weir
Ram's Horn Tree Legend Surprises Union Pacific Office
A ram's horn relic in Pacific headquarters pairs with a mountain pine stump, with roots embedded seven inches. The horn block bears a Salmon River Idaho inscription near the Ram's Horn mine, tied to a legend of forbidden love, Indian wooing, and a couple's long, happy life.
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Union Pacific
Salmon River
Idaho
Buck
The Value of an Eyelash in Accounting
A Washington financier recounts Colonel Lew Washington of Lewis Johnson & Co. bank misreading a balance sheet by $990 due to a fallen eyelash turning 6,000 into 6,990. The eyelash attached to a zero created a nine, then noted the error after repeated review.
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Washington
Lew Washington
Adelaide Rudolph
Garfield
Latain
Kansas State University
Chicago
Faronte
Heer
Urinary
Oon
Pove Ag
Catarra i
Uede
C Tha & Co
Lowell Messom A
Lean
Cattaraugus County
HOWE
Howe Co
Howe Sewing Machine CO
No. 4
Sixth St
Pittsburgh
Pas
The West Virginia War Tickler Bottle Theft
The Boston Journal reports in West Virginia a method called the tickler where farmers in country stores use a linen cord and a quartered cork to steal bottles. Shoppers slip quarters, tie empty bottles to a ceiling cord, lift them, fill, and return then ride away with the bottle concealed for private use.
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West Virginia
Boston Journal
Castoria and patent medicines in old ads text
A chaotic extract touts Castoria for babies and children, claims cures for numerous ailments, and promotes Acker's Toad Elixir, Bucklen's Arnica Salve, Electric Bitters, and various patent remedies. The copy markets tonics, laxatives, salves, and tonics with testimonials and endorsements amid medical patter.
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Acker
Bucelen
A. W. Merck
ROVER
VPENG
Eaward Shepherd
Havenahore
Ami Bucklan
Arnien Salve
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