Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little room in Queens, New York, 12-year-old Jane Ruby lay ill of pneumonia. Near her bed four newborn spitz puppies squirmed in a box. Outside, several laborers were repairing the street, among them a tall, dignified old man of 75 named Lawrence Smith, whose white mane and long white mustache seemed to betoken a distinguished past. In & out of the Ruby abode pranced a black spitz bitch named Fluffy, raising her family, amusing the sick girl, bringing companionship into the life of old Laborer Smith. Then one day last week Covetousness reared its ugly head...
Died. Mrs. Carrie Bell Reed Walsh, 65, Washington socialite, relict of the late mining tycoon Thomas Francis Valsh; of pneumonia; in Washington. Her daughter, Mrs. Edward Beale McLean, is suing the publisher of the Washington Post for divorce. Longtime Belgophiles, the Walshes incorporated a special suite in their mansion for the late King Leopold, but he was forced to cancel his trip to the U. S. Later, however, King Albert and the Prince of Whales were among Mrs. Walsh's guests...
Died. Mrs. Anne Weightman Penfield, 88, philanthropist, onetime "richest woman in the U. S.," relict of the late and last Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, Frederic Courtland Penfield; of pneumonia, after one day's illness; in Manhattan. At the death of her father, William Weightman, "the quinine king," she was sole heiress to a fortune of between $35,000,000 and $50,000,000, founded during the Civil War by selling quinine to the Federal Government (the old firm, Powers Si Weightman, was absorbed by Merck...
Died. Adelaide Scarcez Hermann, 79, "Queen of Magic," relict of Alexandre Hermann "The Great," famed conjurer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. As his assistant she frequently evaporated into space, received many a sword thrust, knew how he caught the marked bullets when ten U. S. troopers shot at him. Jesse Lasky got his theatrical start as their manager. After Hermann died on board their silver bath-tubbed private car, purchased from Lily Langtry, she formed her own show, in which once worked Buster Keaton...
...could be learned last week Dr. Avery has not tried the ferment on human beings. But he has promised: "Its effect in patients suffering from Type III pneumonia will be determined after its action in animals has been very fully investigated...