Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peace of Europe extended, last week, very generally across Asia except in China. Even there, however, the incessant civil wars have smouldered down to a truce of exhaustion. The great hinterlands of Mongolia and Tibet continue slumbrous under the rule of local chieftains and priestly cults whose sovereignty is ill defined. Even the pugnacious Shah of Persia, Reza Khan Pahlevi, is at peace. So calm is neighboring Afghanistan that the Amir, Amanullah Khan, has left his realm to shortly begin a pleasure tour through Europe. Finally, crossing over from Asia to Africa, the various tribesmen there subject to Britain, France...
Died. Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen, 89, first surgeon to operate successfully on cancer of the throat; at Philadelphia. He developed the science of laryngoscopy and taught most of the present specialists. When J. Ramsay MacDonald, onetime English Prime Minister, visited the U. S. last April and fell ill, Dr. Solis-Cohen attended him personally...
...evidence of the messages and money supposed to have been telegraphed from Mexico to Consul General Elias. Such evidence, to prove the validity of Hearst-published documents, was lacking. Investigation continued. Publisher Hearst's Washington Herald brazenly stated: "The least unfortunate result was bound to be suspicion and ill will between the two countries." Alert citizens, however, felt more suspicion and ill will for Publisher Hearst than for Mexico...
...Royal, Neb., one W. L. Seaman carried a package into a store. Here he unveiled two gloomy and fetid objects, a pair of shoes, which he handed to the man of the shop, saying: "Fix these. Half-soled I want them." Unabashed, in response to scornful comments ill-disguised as polite curiosity, W. L. Seaman admitted that his shoes had never been repaired before; that they were 25 years...
...Springfield, Ill., one Jim Hayes, murderer, made a statement: "Women got me into a peck of trouble, and, if I must hang for the murder of a woman, I don't want any more of them around to gloat over the spectacle." There were two women who were eligible to assist at the "spectacle." They were Mrs. Dorothy Tedell, policewoman, and Miss Nina Bowers, nurse. Said the sheriff, uninfluenced by the wishes of Jim Hayes, "These women will be allowed to witness the hanging...