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...accumulated in his left pleural cavity (the space in which the lung moves), had squeezed his left lung up until it barely moved under his shoulder blade, had forced his heart far out of normal over to the right side of his body. Surgeons at Columbus' New McKinley Hospital tapped his chest with a hollow, apirating needle, drew off some pus, a minor operation which gave Switchman Cramer some relief. Fluid again accumulated. So surgeons last week cut through his sixth rib (the routine procedure for an empyema operation), put a rubber tube into the opening, let the fluid...
...time mentor of Colonel Roosevelt and an assistant immigration commissioner in 1902; at New York. Died. Robert Todd Lincoln, 83, oldest and only living son of President Lincoln; at his home in Manchester, Vt. He (TIME, Dec. 7, POLITICAL NOTES) witnessed the assassinations of three Presidents (his father, Garfield, McKinley). He served as Secretary of War, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and president of the Pullman Company...
Canton, seat of Stark County, Ohio, had quieted down for the night. The late President McKinley and his wife slept the long sleep in their granite mausoleum on Monument Hill, with the distant flare of an all-night blast furnace occasionally spreading a ruddy glow over the bronze statue of McKinley, standing tall and pensive above the coffins. Every night the bronze McKinley stands there brooding over Canton, which is as ill-favored as growing industrial towns seem fated to be. At night, however, outward ugliness vanishes and the pensive statue seems to express sorrow over the internal, unseen uglinesses...
...town the size of Canton are usually conscious of corruption on only two planes-the dismayingly magnified obscenities of their own local government, and the almost mystical dereliction of national officeholders, such as various members of the late President Harding's cabinet. But statues like the bronze McKinley of Stark County most likely perceive, from their detached points of vantage, that corruption of one kind or another is visible wherever mankind sets up what it calls government, at least in the U. S. Public prints for last week alone, resounded or echoed with the following cases in various states...
Illinois. The Campaign Funds Investigating Committee of the U. S. Senate has opened headquarters in Chicago to sift charges that three millions were flung back and forth by the supporters of Frank L. Smith and Senator William B. McKinley in last month's primary. The star witness will be a pompous little man whose brain seems to live on huge financial figures, while his stolid personality presides over the gas works, electric dynamos, elevated railways and civic opera, that all contribute to make Chicago its bigger and better self. He is Samuel Insull, and it is charged that...