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Adopted. By Cinemactress Joan Crawford, 32: a four-month-old girl; to be called Christina...
...Crawford Long's claim set the date of his discovery in the year 1842 there is no evidence that ether was used to relieve the pain of wounded soldiers during the first year of the war with Mexico as much as four years later...
Most students of the history of anesthesia are convinced that it wasn't because Long was "Too modest to publish his early experiments" that "he laid his ether bottles aside." Crawford W. Long was simply not impressed with the fact that he had a great discovery in his hands, and so he "laid his ether bottles aside" until he read of Wm. T. G. Morton's work, and then three years after Morton's announcement he published his claim as the discoverer of anesthesia...
Died. John Crawford Anderson, 76, Chief Justice of Alabama; of a heart attack; in Montgomery, Ala. Lone dissenter on the Alabama Supreme Court in the Scottsboro Case, he doubted that the defendants had received a fair trial...
Divorced. Actor Franchot Tone,34; by Cinemactress Joan Crawford, 32, who in 1934 divorced Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; after sentimental get-togethers while the final decree was pending; in Los Angeles...