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...wars, for every ten men slain by the enemy, pestilence has killed its thousands. In the Thirty Years' War, an estimated 8,000,000 Germans were wiped out by flea-borne bubonic plague and louse-borne typhus fever. On Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, typhus, dysentery and pneumonia killed 450,000 of the Grand Army...
...high hills of southern Tennessee, is short on doctors but long on religion. At Lawrenceburg, the county seat, Farmer Joe Brady went on trial last week for religion's sake. Reason: he had fetched no medical aid for his wife Unice when she lay ill of pneumonia last fall. "I told her I'd sell the mule, get a doctor and some medicine if she wanted it," said deep-voiced Joe Brady. "But Unice wouldn't hear to it and she died with the Lord's praises on her lips...
Died. Anne Harriman Sands Rutherford Vanderbilt, 76, dowager socialite, daughter of Railroad Tycoon Oliver Harriman, follower of Cultist Oom the Omnipotent; of double pneumonia; in Manhattan. Her first husband, Sportsman Samuel Stevens Sands, was killed riding to hounds in 1889; her second, Racquet Champion Louis Morris Rutherford, died in 1892; her third, Yachtsman William Kissam Vanderbilt, died...
Died. James Francis Smith, New York City Police lieutenant, 56; of pneumonia and heart disease; in Manhattan. Biggest adventure: at 16, as a telegraph messenger boy, he traveled 12,000 miles during the Boer War to deliver a message of sympathy to President Oom Paul Kruger of the Transvaal Republic from 29,000 Philadelphia schoolboys...
...intense ambition to become world's greatest saint. Spring ferment set up a crossruff resulting in terror, self-mortification, pneumonia. A kind Jewish doctor relieved him at once of his guilt...