Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William Ashley Sunday Jr., 37, second son of the late Evangelist Billy Sunday; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles...
Died. Hazlett Kyle Campbell, 80, last direct descendant of Fur Trader Robert Campbell, rival of John Jacob Astor; of pneumonia; in St. Louis, Mo. Mentally incompetent, Hazlett Campbell apparently left no will, and his $1,850,000 estate will probably be fought for by claimants...
Died. Bobby Jones, 25, Mexican-American professional jockey; of pneumonia; in San Ysidro, Calif. In 1933 Jones rode under two contracts, $12,000-per year plus 10% of winnings for the Kilmer Stables, $7,500 plus 10% for Mrs. John Hay Whitney. He rode unsuccessfully for Kilmer Stables, brilliantly for Mrs. Whitney, won, on 63 mounts...
...table with the family, to use the bathroom, to ride in an auto, to play with the children next door. One thing he refused to do, however: sleep in a blanketed bed. One night last fortnight he slept outdoors in a storm, three days later died of pneumonia. Paramount planned (but failed) to send a delegation of famed actors to watch Jiggs buried in his silk-lined coffin. A Christian Science funeral service was read at his grave...
...confused with the pneumonia serums now given to help victims of pneumonia recover. The cost of these serums and of preliminary tests necessary to determine which of 32 types of pneumonia a patient may have, is comparatively high, so that as yet only the rich can afford them, or the very poor, to whom several States this winter have supplied serum free...