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Scallawaggery received its punishment in a Chicago court last week. Some 20 years ago one Peter Grimes broke his leg at Waterloo, Iowa. He became young Dr. Joseph Ambrose Jerger's first case. Dr. Jerger mended the leg with metal plates and, a good artist, scratched his name on the plates. His fee was $500. Peter Grimes did not pay. Pleading poverty, he disappeared...
...lawyer-politician idolized by Mississippi's swamp folk, Governor Bilbo served his State as Lieutenant Governor (1912-16) and Governor (1916-20). He was elected again in 1928. With a son at West Point, he likes to compare himself to Napoleon. But what he fears most is a Waterloo at the hands of the Mississippi Legislature. When State finances went from bad to worse last winter and voters began to clamor for legislative relief, Governor Bilbo propounded this political proposition: he would issue the necessary call for a special session, provided a majority of the legislators would first sign...
...Waterloo, N. Y. Barbers James Baldassare and William Menzer raced to see how many heads of hair each could clip in the shortest length of time. Baldassare won by cutting 23 heads...
...Killed Bhagat Singh? Six thousand delegates to the 45th Congress of Mr. Gandhi's Indian Nationalist Party had gathered last week in Karachi, grouped in a great camp of tents and bamboo shanties. Correspondents were not sure but what St. Gandhi was drawing near his Waterloo. Younger elements in the party were urging violent resistance to the British Raj. Leaders of this young rebellion against elderly, non-violent Mr. Gandhi were the Mayor of Calcutta, Subhas Chandra Bose and the retiring President of the Congress, Pandit Jawarhalal Nehru...
Twenty years ago at Waterloo. Iowa, Dr. Joseph Ambrose Jerger ingeniously mended Peter Grimes's broken right leg with metal plates. It was Dr. Jerger's first case. So, like a medieval artisan, he proudly signed each plate with his initials...