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...Last week a Wisconsin Legislative committee at Madison was winding up a series of investigations into the conduct of State hospitals for the insane. Samples of testimony offered by inmates, relatives, onetime attendants: ¶ Among attendants at Oshkosh's hospital, to "neck out" means to rope a wet towel around an inmate's neck, twist. On Jan. 26 an attendant "necked out" Inmate Oscar Schrader so thoroughly that he died. Five other Oshkosh deaths apparently resulted from brutal treatment. ¶ When Clark Lyman entered Mendota's hospital on Feb. 14, 1931 he was in good physical condition...
...Harvard Athletic Association yesterday announced a reduction in locker rents for the rest of this year. From now until the end of college in June, the charge for a locker in any one of the athletic buildings, with the use of a towel, will...
Left By Elizabeth Bacon Custer (TIME, April 17), widow of General George Armstrong ("Last Stand") Custer: $101,492, to relatives and Vassar College; a white towel certified to be the first Confederate flag of truce and a white linen handkerchief used as a truce signal by Custer at Appomattox, to the U. S. War Department; a pine table used in the Grant-Lee surrender ceremony, a letter presenting the table to Mrs. Custer by General Phil Sheridan, Custer's sword & scabbard and other mementoes, to the Smithsonian Institution...
Seeking Divorce. Anne Ludlow Cannon Reynolds Smith, 23, daughter of Towel Tycoon Joseph F. Cannon, first wife of the late Zachary Smith Reynolds, tobacco scion; from Frank Brandon Smith Jr., Charlotte (N. C.) hardwareman; in Hot Springs, Ark., whither she was accompanied by vigilant Father Cannon...
...SILVER DUST SOAP GET DISH TOWEL FREE...