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Died. Frankie McErlane, Chicago gangster, reputed inventor of the "one way ride"; of pneumonia; in Beardstown...
...apparent immunity of medical men to infectious or contagious diseases. All last year only one physician died of infantile paralysis, scarlet fever, anthrax, parrot fever, or undulant fever. Of 2,952 U. S. doctors who died during the year (average age: 63.8-) heart disease killed 1,065, cerebralhemorrhage 365, pneumonia 312, hardening of the arteries 252, kidney ailments 237, cancer 236, blood poisoning 45, influenza 36. Sixty-four committed suicide (most by shooting, only five by poisoning); 139 were killed accidentally (two took overdoses of medicine; one caught his head in a drawer of a wardrobe trunk; one overbaked himself...
Facts are that since His Majesty's pneumonia George V has seemed to relish only two things, oysters and sweet puddings, of which he eats as much as his doctors let him. In Edward of Wales farsighted Chummy sees a future King-Emperor even less likely to appreciate his art. The favorite dinner of H. R. H. consists of cold meat & whiskey-soda-a menu sometimes expanded by cabbage or some other vegetable, always boiled. Unlike his fat, great-eating grandfather, and unlike his father, Edward of Wales detests sweets. But both George V and his son prefer whiskey...
...Carbondale, Ill., M. J. Going, ill with pneumonia, died of shock during a thunderstorm...
Died. Arthur George Wells, 70, vice president in charge of operation for Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.; of pneumonia; in Chicago...