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Died. Thomas Meighan, 57, oldtime cinemactor (The Miracle Man); of influenza and cancer; at Great Neck...
Superior Judge Berry T. Moseley was in bed with influenza one day last month when an excited deputy sheriff rushed into his Danielsville, Ga. home, told him he had better hustle over to the jail. The 74-year-old jurist arose, put on some clothes, elbowed his way through a crowd that had just battered a two-foot hole in the jail wall. Sensing what was up. Judge Moseley mounted the steps, thundered: "This is an open violation of the law. ... I declare you all deputized as officers." The crowd quickly dispersed...
Died. Milo Reno, 70, tireless, belligerent Iowa farm strike leader, head of the National Farmers' Holiday Association (TIME, Aug. 29, 1932 et seq.); of a heart attack following influenza and pneumonia; in Excelsior Springs...
...jottings, however, is interesting to historian, layman and doctor. That is Dr. Cushing's record of how polyneuritis ambulatoria crept upon him and crippled him be fore he, a nerve specialist, realized what was occurring. The disease frequently is the sequel of some infection like scarlet fever or influenza. Nerves become inflamed, the inflammation progressing along nerve trunks and branches and indirectly causing muscles to waste away...
...losing side of the Ethiopian War, Wilfred Courtenay ("Will") Barber of the Chicago Tribune was posthumously awarded $500. First U. S. newshawk to get into the country after hostilities started, 31-year-old Correspondent Barber sickened after three months, died in Ogaden last October of tertian malaria, nephritis, influenza, was buried on a hill in Addis Ababa (TIME...