Word: townships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Proviso township, near Chicago, Oscar Atkins, who had lived 17 days in a grave five feet deep in a vacant lot, clambered up, peevishly took down his sign MAN BURIED ALIVE, Ten Cents a Look. In a vacant lot two blocks off, Mrs. Marion Weaver had also dug a grave, had put up a sign GIRL BURIED ALIVE, was taking away all of Oscar Atkins' customers. Two miles away, Lester Mclntyre, buried alive 21 days, clambered out when it started to rain. Said Lester McIntyre: "My grave leaks...
John E. Massengale, 3rd., 16, of Evanston; Evanston Township High School...
Clifford S. Goodman, 17, of Wilmette; New Trier Township High School...
...much simpler cure was suggested last week for a much noisier head noise under observation at Hines Hospital, run by the U. S. Veterans Administration in Proviso Township, near Chicago. Charles Hester had complained of a ticking in his head, and doctors could actually hear the ticking by cupping their ears a few inches away. It had bothered him intermittently ever since a shell exploded near him in the War. Colonel Hugh Scott, chief of the hospital staff, diagnosed as follows: "The tick-tock is caused when he moves a certain muscle in his palate. The movement of the palatal...
Last year Amishmen and Mennonites of East Lampeter Township, Pa. petitioned the Government not to grant $56,200 of PWA money to their school board for a consolidated school. Their petition failing and the school completed, the Mennonites were about to defy the law and keep their children at home last month, when Pennsylvania's liberal Governor George Howard Earle came to the rescue. He ordered that they be permitted to put their children in rural one-room schools as they had been accustomed to. In gratitude last week 500 Mennonites and Amishmen of East Lampeter voted to give...