Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Show. Adjoining the meeting hall was a medical exhibit. Medical literature, pharmaceutical products, surgical supplies, health foods vied for attention. Outstanding among the popular shows was the new cure for hay fever. Like a kitchen stove it looked, with a pipe leading out through a fake window. Fresh air enters the pipe, is drawn into the body of the contrivance where it is purified of all pollen, and is then released into the room for respiratory purposes. Not much protection on a country ramble, but a great relief to the cityfolk...
Bitten. In Chicago Frank Martin, 36, a hobo, lying down drunk in a police station to sleep by the stove near a big, muzzled airedale, bit the dog, was fined $200 (not for this act, but for violating the prohibition laws...
Death sped unseen across a white-walled courtyard, passed up a marble stair, and seemed to pause, irresolute, last week, in the bedchamber of Rumania's greatest man. The room, warmed by a great tile stove, was cozy; and Prime Minister Jon Bratiano, 63, clung hard to warmth and life. He could not speak, for inflammation brought on by blood infection, had gagged his throat; but with a steady hand he wrote to the physicians who bent over him: "Do not be impatient. I shall make a good fight...
Died. Mrs. Wayne B. Wheeler, 51, wife of the Anti-Saloon League counsel, from burns when an oil stove exploded in their summer cottage at Shelby, Mich. Mr. Candy, 81, her father, with her at the time, died from shock when he saw the flames envelop Mrs. Wheeler...
...Paris, police agents found two old women living in great iron steam-boilers discarded by a factory. Each had a boiler-room 8 ft. long, 5 ft. wide, 4 ft. high, equipped with stove and, for shelving, boxes. Their food they got by diligent search of the public market garbage buckets. No wastrels, no disturbers of the public peace, the two old beldams were permitted to continue peacefully in their squalor...