Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cattle ranch all right but to say he is a prison warden at Salmon, Idaho, is rather amusing because it is a little town far into the mountains and the only penal institution of which it might boast is a little two-by-four jail. Salmon is a county seat...
...Idaho state penitentiary at Boise, several hundred miles from Salmon, four consecutive two-year terms from 1900 to 1909. Again, in 1924, he was called to the wardenship of the institution but had served only a year when he accepted a call to the wardenship of the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., where...
Welfare Island is a bleak platform rising out of a river on the east side of Manhattan and supporting on its scanty ledge a workhouse, two hospitals and a prison. Straight over the island sweeps the grey arch of Queensborough Bridge and across the bridge all day pass elevated trains, funeral carriages and people on foot. It is easy, standing on the bridge, to drop something down onto the island. Last week a man on the bridge threw away a tin tobacco...
...City Hospital on Welfare Island, 219 men and 147 women- lean as gulls, most of them, some with red patches under their nostrils ("snowbirds," "sniffers") some with their forearms and thighs pockmarked with infected needle-sores; some sent to the narcotic ward by prison authorities, some self-committed in an attempt to get rid of their addiction-took the narcosan treatment. The solution is injected with a hypodermic syringe. The lipoids in narcosan neutralize toxic substances. The proteins stimulate new blood formation. This, at all events, is the theory of the way in which it works. The facts...
Last week Fuzzy Wuzzy (Osman Digna, called "The Ugly") died in Wadi Haifa, Egypt. He was 90. He had spent 22 years in prison, more than 20 years slave trading, some 25 years fighting. His father was a Scottish sailor or Beelzebub. Perhaps he had an Arab mother, or perhaps his mother was a Turk. Nobody is sure. History recognizes only that ugly Osman Digna* spent his boyhood and adolescence helping his parents sell slaves. The Digna family was very rich. In 1882 the British again forbade slave-trading. The Dervish Mahdi proclaimed a Holy War and Osman Digna, brown...