Word: hagerstown
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Died. Colonel William Preston Lane, 87, football pioneer; of heart disease; in Hagerstown, Md. Colonel Lane was the last surviving member of the Princeton team which played against Rutgers in the first intercollegiate football game ever played in the U. S., in 1869. Rutgers won (6-4), did not repeat the victory until last week...
...sunny afternoon last May, 61-year-old Frank Hoffman, who was working on a farm outside Hagerstown, Md., began to disinfect the barn with a high-pressure spraying hose. Suddenly the machine jammed, backfired, showered Hoffman with carbolic acid and lime. He whipped out his bandanna handkerchief, rubbed his eyes, and despite the searing pain continued working. In a few days Farmer Hoffman was stone blind...
Several weeks ago, when the infection following the burn had abated, Hoffman went to Hagerstown, and asked Dr. Paul Nelson Fleming if he would ever be able to see again. Dr. Fleming examined his eyes, discovered that the fragile, shell-like corneas were completely useless, that each lens and iris had grown together in a tangled mass. He told Hoffman that he could only experiment, but Hoffman was willing to try anything. At Washington County Hospital Dr. Fleming removed the scarred cornea from Hoffman's right eye, straightened out the lens and iris as best he could. No human...
Enterprising reporters from Baltimore, Washington and New York soon discovered that Dr. Fleming had a big reputation among Hagerstown folk for his ingenious operations. Two years ago, when a patient was brought to him with trachea and larynx squeezed together by an automobile accident, he made an incision in her throat, inserted a rubber tube, and thus provided a firm wall around which a "new" windpipe could grow. Fourteen weeks later he removed the tube, and after a few minor operations, the patient was again able to swallow and talk...
...Liveliest White House visitor of the week was 85-year-old Mrs. Anne Howell Kennedy Findlay. During the Civil War, on the street outside her house in Hagerstown, Md., Mrs. Findlay's mother found a young Union captain wounded in the throat, took him indoors to be cared for. Mrs. Findlay, then a girl of ten, was leaning over the officer's bed when he recovered consciousness. She helped nurse him back to health. The captain was the late Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. It was at the little girl's house that Poet Oliver Wendell...