Word: fla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eight women and two old men, receiving treatment for cancer at Orlando, Fla., last week became violently ill. With muscles screwed up in agony, they died within a few hours of one another, suffering either from tetanus or from what doctors called "anaphylactic shock." Their deaths were traced to hypodermic injections of a special bacterial filtrate. The physician of the victims, conscientious Dr. Thomas Albert Neal, protested that he had administered 10,000 injections of the filtrate during the past two-and-a-half years "with remarkable success and with no previous ill effects." He announced his belief that...
Died. Mrs. Elinor Miriam Frost, 65, wife of famed Poet Robert Frost; of a heart attack; in Gainesville, Fla...
Chamber of Commerce Fort Lauderdale, Fla...
Novelist Ernest Hemingway, refereeing a Negro prizefight at Key West, Fla. was counting out one of the fighters when a Negro second threw in a towel. Referee Hemingway threw it out. The second jumped into the ring, swung at the referee. Mr. Hemingway gave him a left jab to the chin, twisted his ear. Said Referee Hemingway, "He must have lost his head...
...chimerical cages in which to keep them, so those were also listed as abandoned-so were wagons, horses and railroad cars. "Bridgeport, Conn.," said Mr. Burns in a rather bitter mood, "must have resembled a jungle when the circus moved from there to new winter quarters in Sarasota, Fla. in 1927. Income tax returns for that year show the abandonment of 46 elephants, 23 camels, 23 lions, 18 bears, hundreds of monkeys and some 800 horses...