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Another outbreak of bacillary dysentery was reported last week from Northampton, Mass. There, "however, the epidemic is thoroughly localized among the 1,800 infirm and insane inmates of the Northampton State Hospital. Their dysentery score: 7 dead; 93 infected...
...retire Bishop Cannon for "ill health" - only grounds permissible under church discipline. But the conference, after two hours of debate in which the "Prohibishop" was pictured as a martyr to the machinations of the Wet Press and the Roman Catholic Church or as a man ''infirm" because of his "love of money and love of power," voted its confidence...
...magnate, has failed to re-elect the State's attorney who brought him back. There was certainly no triumphal return, with Samuel Insull dragging behind a chariot, nor was there an angry crowd at the station or the jail. The general notion is that Mr. Insull is a poor, infirm old fugitive whom the law is making into a scapegoat. Pity wells up all over the Windy City. Yet it was Chicago, not the law, which made the man poor by driving him away from his pile, which made him infirm by hounding him rather crudely in half a dozen...
...confused with the Panorama is the Cyclorama, a single long painting in which one place or event merges into the next. Examples: the famed Pantheon of the War (402 ft. by 43 ft.) done by aged & infirm French painters, now in Chicago (see above); Battle of Gettysburg (404 ft. by 72 ft.), by Paul Philippoteoux, also in Chicago...
Died, Pierre Carrier-Belleuse, 82, French painter, Sevres porcelain art director; of old age; in Paris. He conceived the Wartime chore for aged & infirm French painters of painting the famed patriotic cyclorama, Pantheon...