Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Calcium. Dr. Weston A. Price of Cleveland reported data furthering scientific knowledge of the effect of the ultraviolet ray in aiding calcium assimilation (bone growth). This knowledge, already applied to the treatment of rickets, definitely relates influenza epidemics with city smoke-palls; definitely benefits gravid women, who, according to the old rule, sacrificed "a tooth for every child...
...must to all men, death came last week to Krao Farini, "the missing link," who had a long black beard and monkey hands. She died of influenza in Manhattan (where she was with Ringlings' circus...
Died. Mme. Krao Farini, 49, famed "Siamese Missing Link, for 30 years a strange hairy freak in the employ of numerous circuses; in Manhattan, of asthma and influenza, while employed by the combined Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Brothers circuses...
...closer scrutiny revealed that Mr. Gould was not dead. Far from it. He had merely defaulted his U. S. and international court tennis titles to Charles Suydam Cutting* because, as the result of a bad attack of influenza, his muscles were so stiff that he could not play in the challenge round of the national court tennis tournament at the Racquet & Tennis club. The funereal tone of the newspaper notices merely emphasized a statement made by a wise man that "athletes die twice?once when Death takes them and once when they retire from sport...
Died. Viscount Takaaki Kato, Premier of Japan; at Tokyo, following an attack of influenza...