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Smoking Before Breakfast. During his discussion of stomach ulcers, to which he believes certain people are predisposed at birth, Dr. Edward William Alton Ochsner of Tulane University declared: "Excessive use of tobacco, especially between meals, on an empty stomach, is dangerous. Very bad is smoking in the morning before breakfast...
Near Sanford, N. C., Mrs. Alton Jourdon, 26, who expected to have a baby in another month, last week went to the well in her farmyard to draw water. "When I bent over the well," she said after an accident which drew newspaper attention throughout the nation, "everything went black. The next thing I remember was being in the cold water, trying to keep afloat. Soon there were two of us, and I had to keep...
...Westwood, Calif., a 16-year-old girl, who said he had knocked her on the head with a wrench and raped her twice, got Thomas Alton Tully, son of Jim Tully (Jarnegan, Beggars of Life), arrested for the fifth time on charges of criminal assault, sentenced to from one to 50 years in jail...
Last week Mr. Couch gave a house party at Couchwood. George B. Shaw and W. Alton Jones of Cities Service dropped from the skies in a great glistening white monoplane. Governor Futrell of Arkansas and a few ranking members of the State's judiciary were already on hand. From St. Louis went a delegation headed by Tom K. Smith of Boatmen's National Bank who lately resigned as an assistant to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. Higher education was represented by President Bruce Payne of Peabody College in Nashville, Tenn. and President Pat Neff of Baylor University, Waco...
...August Luer, 77, Alton, Ill. banker kidnapped in July 1933, was returned unharmed. Federal men were on the case early and three criminals got life sentences from the State courts...