Word: poisoner
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...Ottawa, Ill., George Jakubsen, railroad crossing watchman, drew his life savings, $1,460. from a bank which he was afraid would fail, hid it. Later he looked for the money, could not find it. He brooded, finally killed himself with poison. When officers searched his effects they found the $1,460 between the leaves of a book...
...Portland, Me., E. H. Dunham, 31, thwarted in love, attempted to swallow poison while in a drug store. Store Manager Lyndon E. Harris saw him, hurled an egg which splattered over Dunham's waistcoat, startling him so that he spat out the poison...
Professor Cabot has taken an active part in the support of the Massachusetts Dry Enforcement Law. From his experience in many years of medical service he says that even the moderate, regular drinker was even more effectively poisoned than the occasional drinker who gave his system a chance to throw off the poison...
...Even though facts show that alcohol is both a food and poison, it is a poison that steadily progresses. In cases of pneumonia alcoholics are almost surely doomed, and no one is immune from pneumonia. The deaths after prohibition have decreased from 80 percent to 35 percent. In cases of tuberculosis the decrease is just as marked, and deaths from cirrhosis of the liver went down one-third after the prohibition...
...Poison...