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...Manhattan, Thursday, July 30, 1914 dawned chill and damp. Europe had whelped the first World War and the morning sun, hidden from Wall Street behind a grey overcast, stippled with afternoon gold the dusty packs of Austrian infantrymen marching down to Servia and Armageddon. After the Stock Exchange had closed for the day, Manhattan's top-flight bankers gathered in the office of young (46) J. P. Morgan who 16 months before on the death of his late great father had become head of the most powerful banking house in the U. S. They gathered to discuss ways & means...
Under the caption of "Pranksters" in the Miscellany column, p. 30, issue of Aug. 13, you report the blowing up of one Jaspara Servia by employes of the Erie Railroad. In the first place, your caption is all wrong?"Assaulters" is the proper descriptive term. The inflation, per rectum, of persons employed in steel mills and railroad yards is not uncommon, as I have heard of many such assaults and have, on one occasion, treated such a case. Needless to say that my patient died?deliberately murdered by those you term "Pranksters," and from all the records I have...
Lucky Jaspara Servia recovered, after Dr. John S. Deyell of Ravenna sewed up two five-inch rips in the bowel. Pranksters Daniel Desko and Frank Pudaski, who admitted inflating Servia as "a practical joke," were arrested, held in $500 bond on charges of assault...
...Ravenna, Ohio, Jaspara Servia was ganged by fellow employes of the Erie Railroad. The pranksters pushed an air-hose into his body, turned on no l10b. pressure, blew him up to more than double his size. Hoping to save his life, surgeons cut open and deflated Jaspara Servia...
...time of the Turco-Russian War, the Post appeared to be stealing News despatches. The News printed a despatch concerning a riot in Servia and in the despatch were some Servian words. The Post printed it and the next day the News published a translation: "The McMullens' (publishers of the Post) will steal this sure." Within a couple of years Lawson was able to buy out the Post. In 1881 he founded The Morning News, later called The Chicago Record, later merged into the Record-Herald and finally sold to Hearst to become The Herald and Examiner...