Word: waynesburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pauline Lucas, 31, of Waynesburg, Pa., was hiccuping last week 10 to 25 times a minute, as she has since last Feb. 23. She has not tried Syvertson's method. Suggestions received in 8,000 letters have included such standard remedies as breathing in & out of a paper bag and eating ice cream. Doctors at Greene County Memorial Hospital have tried sedatives, anesthesia, benzyl benzoate (a relaxing drug), quinidine sulfate (a quinine-like drug used to regulate abnormal heart rhythms), amyl nitrite (a drug used to treat angina pectoris...
...turned up in southwest Pennsylvania fifteen years ago with a set of documents he called the Horn Papers. They were full of surprising new findings about Pennsylvania in the 17005. Soon a series of articles, based on what he said were family diaries, began to appear in the Waynesburg (Pa.) Democrat Messenger. The diaries no longer existed; but Horn explained that he had made careful copies of them...
...mistake he soon corrected. When Grover Cleveland and the Democrats took the high tariff off imported wools and ruined Ed's sheep-raising father, Ed reformed and joined the Republicans. In 1898 he marched off to fight the Spanish in the Philippines. He came back and graduated from Waynesburg College...
...discussion of college traditions would not even be acceptable without some mention of John B. G. Rinehart '00, of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. For nearly half a century, the cry of "Rinehart" has been the signal for a general uprising of the student population and, perhaps, a subsequent march on Radcliffe. It is the old spring riot call, and has seldom gone unanswered...
...whose members now have an estimated 600,000 sons in the armed services, has changed its mind. It appropriated $250,000 for "an intelligent, aggressive campaign to inform eligible veterans of the advantages offered by the American Legion," put at the head of the drive James E. Isherwood of Waynesburg, Pa. who is being groomed as next year's National Commander...