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Principal diversion at Saratoga, after each day's races, is gambling in roadhouses like the Brook Club and the Piping Rock. Last week gambling-room proprietors expected to be allowed to run their games without interference from local authorities. To Miss Emma F. St. John, 300-lb. Saratoga chiropodist and church worker, who had requested him to remove the local commissioner of public safety, the district attorney and sheriff for their failure to clean up the town, Governor Herbert H. Lehman replied that he saw no need for executive action. When Miss St. John continued to protest...
...have a sore foot you can get it fixed by a chiropodist...
...chiropractors who, as the American Bureau of Chiropractic, met in Manhattan last week, saw no fun in the pun and joke played on them by the new Encyclopedia Britannica. Explained therein in immediate sequence are Chiromancy (Palmistry), Chiron (centaur wise in healing), Chiropodist, Chiropractic, Chiroptera (Bats). In chronicling Chiropractic the Encyclopedia commits one of its numerous errors. It pronounces B. J. Palmer the chief founder of the movement. The late Daniel David Palmer laid the foundations of chiropractic (1895). Bartholomew Josiah Palmer, his son, founded the Palmer School of Chiropractic...
...unknown assailant who struck Dr. George Kovacs, chiropodist, of 125, Tremont Street over the head and dashed from his office at 5 o'clock last Friday, left behind him an overcoat which contained the plans for the new Harvard Gymnasium, it was learned last night at Police Headquarters. He had stolen the plans, which were in the form of blue-prints, from a contractor on the Wellesley-Boston train last Wednesday morning, and was in the Doctor's office having his foot treated when the assault was committed. A warrant has been sworn out for the criminal, but the police...
...enjoyment of this romantic tale will depend upon his feeling toward the profession of chiropody. The rush of events involves pearls, hurricanes, shipwreck, Catholicism, natives of Australia, primitive rites, a heroine of dusky beauty and high intelligence, and yet, strange as it may seem, the hero is a chiropodist. He made his fortune caring for feet in London and the Australian goldfields, and it was with his knives that he later redeemed imperfect pearls at Droone, the mythical antipode where he became a dark little power...