Word: asthma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smoke, dirt, and odor "nuisances" which cause citizens to heckle corporations. Last week in Toledo one Herbert D. Widmer sued Toledo Seed & Oil Co., subsidiary of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., for $25,000. Charge: Castor bean dust released by the defendant's plant caused Plaintiff Widmer to contract asthma. Eagerly awaiting the suit's outcome are more than 250 asthmatic Toledans, some of whom had to drive into the country of nights to escape the castor bean dust before the City Council recently ordered the plant shut...
...stockings, gloves, a nightcap. He lived on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris, in a cork-lined attic room. His curtains were drawn against the tree-dust he found obnoxious. The smell of perfumes, flowers, steam heat, oppressed him unbearably. Only at 3 a.m., when breathing was easiest for his asthma, would he venture into the street. In a drawing-room he would not doff his fur-lined coat. Once someone entered his house from several flights below, leaving the street-door ajar. Quavered Proust: "Shut that door!"-and died. Author Proust, woman-reared, was olive-skinned, black-haired, heavy-eyed...
...Philadelphia, a Mrs. Arthur B. Huey was being treated for asthma. A capsule attached to a cord and containing 25 milligrams ($1,700 worth) of radium was inserted in her nostril. The cord became detached. A sharp intake of breath popped the capsule into the throat, where it was swallowed. Purgatives were unavailing but after several days the capsule was located inside Mrs. Huey by Xray. An operation was undertaken, successfully. In spite of the capsule having remained in the body so long there was no sign of the severe intestinal burns which had been feared...
Died. James Roosevelt Roosevelt, 73, philanthropist, half-brother of onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt; father-in-law of present Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson; onetime brother-in-law of the late Colonel John Jacob Astor; of asthma; at his estate, Red House, near Hyde Park...
Died. Mme. Krao Farini, 49, famed "Siamese Missing Link, for 30 years a strange hairy freak in the employ of numerous circuses; in Manhattan, of asthma and influenza, while employed by the combined Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Brothers circuses...