Word: wiegman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Wiegman is a 17-year-old Chicago boy who was born without trace of arms. Last week he was proudly feeding himself, typing, writing with the aid of artificial arms motivated by two arm stumps, which Dr. Harry E. Mock of Chicago had produced at the boy's shoulders by the wizardry of plastic surgery...
...becoming selfconscious, sorrowed that others had to perform personal attentions for him, hated the perpetual lapping up of his food "like a kitty," especially longed for shirts with sleeves instead of the sacklike garments slipped over his head. Then too a sideshow was tempting the Wiegman family with money for the boy's services as a "freak." He was ambitious, however; wanted to emulate the success of Michael Dowling, bank president of Olivet, Minn., who had lost both his legs and both his arms* at the age of 16, of Judge Corliss of Texas who lost both arms...
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