The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 06, 1928, Image 2
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Surgcou*' Knive* Disrlotse Variety of
Objects in VariouH Stomachs
In hospitals in many parts of the
United iStuten are museums where are
diaplayed an umazirig assortment of
articles, mostly useless.
There are carpet tacks, pins, needlea,
fragments of combs ami eyeglass
frames thumbtacks, bits of wire, shoe
laces, pieces of bed springs, paper
clips, metal tags, washers, curtain
hooks, cartridges, shot, safety-razor
blades, teeth, both natural and false,
spoons, hairpins, phonograph needles,
safety pins, fragments of bone, watermelon
and other seeds, coffee beans,
pieces of solder, beads, strung and
unstrung and coins, the last almost
entirely of denominations less than
half a dollar.
Uuch articles, you would say, would
make only a poor display in a museum
case, They do.
v It happens, however, that, virtually
every one of the thousands of articles
so displayed represent a human life
that was saved, writes Adu Patterson
in Popular Science Monthly. For
these odd collections of useless Hardware
vegetable matter and trinkets
are made up of the mid things people
swallow.
People take these singularly indigestible
objects into their systems for
a variety of reasons. A most careful
person is likely to swallow a peach or
prune pit, a small bone, a pebble, or
bird-shot with his food and not realize
that he has done ho.
Most of these foreign bodies that
are swallowed, however, are taken by
intent. The professional swalloweis
-"human ostriches" they Oill themselves
who entertain at county fairs
have contributed many weird additions
at the odd surgical museums.
Many other persons swallow sharp
objects?nails, needles, knives, and
razor blades? with suicidal intent.
Other habitual swallowers are mentally
deranged, or suffer from some
peculiar physiological condition that
causes them to enjoy the irritation
hard or shnrp objects syt up in their
integral organs.
Then a great many of these who
have been operated on have been infants
whose careless mothers or
nurses have left bright and attractive,
but dangerous, objects within
their reach.
Not long ago an operation on a 15year-old
girl, in Michigan resulted in
the removal of almost a thousand
things she had swallowed. These included
safety-pins, earrings, watch
chains stove bolts, coins, metal street
car tokens, brooches, adhesive tape,
shoe laces and hits of ribbon ?almost
four pounds in all.
A professional "swallower" in Chicago
yielded 272 metal objects in an
operation the contents of his stomach
including upholstery tacks, nuts, bolts,
screws, a can opener, a couple of
handfuls of thumb tacks, almost a box
of fair sized nails, cartridges, safety
pins, paper clips and eoiign
Removal of foreign objects from the
throat or windpipe ha> been faciliated
greatly by the invention of the bronchoscope
by Dr. Chevalier Jackson, of
Philadelphia.
This device consists of a long flex
ible tube, within which i- a series of
mirrors that reflect, an image of the
object to be removed Illumination
is supplied h\ a small clectr.c light.
Through this tube. [ hv operating
surgeon inserts his tc>r> ops and readily
withdraws the object 'nal lias been
swallowed.
Coeds Stolen From Store \t ( heraw
fheraw Some time Tin >da\ r igh.
some one entered th* <to'o of |t. ('.
Moure and Sons hen h\ km.* king
out one <>t too .a.ge panes n one of
the' front doom and crawling through.
A suit and hat. a ::s Smith and Wo
ton revolver and the motiev e,'t in
the cash draum were taken and t he
thief's old coat and hat were !ef\
It is impn-sihlc t . v tie, k up the stock
after the Christmas rush. Mi. Moore
has offered a reward of $75 for the
t hit f's capture.
A11 red F. Smith o f N e w 5' o r k,
celebrated h.s 5-lth birthday at the
executive mansion at Albany on
Friday, December 2d. A lOO-'pound
fruit cake was a feature of the
birthday dinner.
NOTICE OK FI LI NO OF WILL.
State of South Carolina,
County of Kershaw.
(In Probate Court)
1N RE:
Estate of William Thompson,
? deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the last
will and testament of William Thompson,
deceased, was filed in the office
of the Probate Court for said County
and State on the 16th day of November,
1927. and is now on' file in said
office.
w. l. McDowell,
Probate Judge.
lVcembei 24. 1927.
I COLUMBIA LUMBER &I
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COLUMBIA, S. C.
| IN TUB CAKOI.INAS
| I tenia of Interest Gleaned from N?w?*
|>M pi*TH Of TWO State*
Four person* were killed and two
othura injured in the t wo Carolina*
Su t u rda y.
In the two Carolina* on < hriatmas
there wore mx persons killed and thirteen
injured by automobile accidents
gun battles an<J fires.
North Carolina has more than four
hundred cotton nulla now and leada all
the states in spindle-hours. The mjlla
there operate nearei full time than
thoae of Massachusetts which the
Tarheel state has i .w passed in the
textile industry.
Fred Smith, 22 had his hand cut
off by a corn xhredder on Mountain
View farm near Anderson.
An epidemic of robcrie* marked
Chriatmastide at Greenville and a <lo>en
men are in jail there, besides those
who escaped.
The week before ('h/istmas farmers
of Darlington county shipped their
twenty-aixth carload of poultry which
yielded $.'j,7().'J to them.
The heavy toll of casualties in
(Ireenville, at Christmas time included
twenty-seven Automobile accidents,
one fatal to two negroes, eight fires
and one person seriously injured by
exploding fireworks.
Two little children of Albert
Cuughman, negro laborer, were burned
to death in the home in Columbia
when that ,little shack burned while
the father was at a Christmas celebration.
Their mother is dead.
(ireenville Lcgionnaries refused Co
sell tickets on Sunday for an aviation
gypsy who offered them a share of his
receipts if tjjey would help hijn that
day. They said they would not violate
tly Sabbath.
Mr. Ncubnuer, of the construction
company working at Myrtle Beach,
was killed near there while hunting
quail by the accidental discharge of a
shot gun in the hands of a companion
His home was at Clinton, Massachuse
Its.
Fiie originating by a short circuit
in an electric train iri the toy.department
of Gilmer's department store in
(Ireenville caused damage of $5,000, on
Christmas. Seven residences and two
stores just outside the city limits also
burned two roofs in town caught fire,
and several minor blazes occurred
there thut day.
Surgeons from the two Carolinas
forming a section of the American
College of Surgeons, limited to outstanding
surgeons in this country, will
hold a meeting at Spartanburg Janu
aiy 2IJ-2-1 with some of the most distinguished
surgeons of America as
visitors and on the programs. A large
attendance of surgeons not members
is expected.
A High Point, N. ('., bank never received
a package of $25,000 and a $2,000
package for a Greensboro bank ?s
also missing, as a result of a robbery
at the railroad station at Danville, Va.,
where the mail sacks are transferred
from one train to another. Post office
inspectors are working on the
theft.
Dr. .J. K. .Jerome, a prominent pjiysician
?>t Wingate, died Saturday,
| aged tW*> years, after practicing medii
- :ue these thirty-five years.
| Frat A. Linney. United States
'district a 1 rtiey.of Booner, N. (\, has
resigned .,',1 in unees it for political
a ml to -top some talk
about a trade.
\ ada Wall, a colored girl. Id years
j old. wa- burned to death in Koi king1
ham. \. ( when her clothes were
j ign.tid at a lirephtce. Nobody was
, "' in and she ran into the garden and
! 1 1 ' he: e before -ho died.
j Alvai Bradley, a young textile
, w o ker ot Henrietta. N. C , near
j Shelby, was instantly killed Friday in
j an automobile collision, near Kilonj
bom, when his Ford coupe hit a
1 It'Mioi oil truck head on in a den-.'
I f"*\,
I 1 he sU',H.Mior court ot Concord, N.
| l'.. sentenced Harlen Searcy, a young
bo\ convicted of stealing automobiles
for joy rides, to be whipped by his
father once a week for two weeks.
Three others were bound over to
court.
Blood transfusion failed to save the
life of Bernard Davis, Jr.. 7 years old,
a ( harlotte boy, who was accidentally
shot through the thigh while playing
with another boy at a neighbor's. A
shot gun fell down and when the 9year-old
neighbor boy replaced it, it
went off.
The first woman hank cashier in
North ( arolina is Miss Annie Shipman,
of the Brevard Banking company,
who is also the first cashier
of a million dollar hank. She has
beer, assistant cashier for many years
and was promoted when Cashier
Lyon resigned to go into other business.
1 he dead body of Mrs. J. A. Dean,
an aged woman who disappeared four
days previously from her home near
T ayetteville, N\ C., was found in ?
dense thicket and partly in a pool of
water. Over a hundred men had been
searching for the woman for days. It
thought she fell in crossing a
small stream and died in the bitter
cold of Monday night of last week.
< harlotte. not satisfied with the
population estimate of the census bureau
just published, had another estimate
made b\ a newspaper organization
which gives it si.092 population,
which i- more than it gives WinstonSal,
ni and makes Charlotte the
laigcxt c11 \ in North Carolina, according
to the newspaper figures and
a- !. rea-e of 25.000 population which
1 O.. M.IU' annexed a: midnight on
Natyiday night, The same newspaper
estimate gave (lastoniQ 21,881
population and Concord, 12(37&.
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LYNCHING# DECREA8K
No Lynching Occurred in Houth Carolina
DurinK Year J oat Cloned
I'rot. Robert K. Moto/i, principal
of Tuskegee School, Hernia The
Chronicle the following concerning
lynchinga in the United Stutea during*
the year juat cloned:
"I tend you the following concerning
lynching)* for the pant year an
compiled by Tuskegee Institute in the
Department of Records and Research.
1 find there were 16 per won a lynched
in 1027. This is 14 leaa than the
number .'it) for 11*26, 1 leaa than the
number 17 for 1925, the name number
T6 an for 1924 and 17 leaa than the
number 33 for 1923. 12 of the persona
lynched were taken from the handa
of the law, 6 from juil* and 6 from
offieera of the law outside of jail*.
4 of the peraona were burned to death,
2 were put to deuth and then their
bodies burned.
"There were 42 instances in which
officers of the law prevented lynch*
ings. 8 of these were in Northern
states, und 34 in Southern states.In
24 of the cases the prisonera
were removed or the guards augmented
or other precautions taken.
In 18 other instances, armed force was
used to repel the would be lynchers.
68 persons, 15 white and 53 Negroes
were thus saved from death at the
handa of mobs.
"All of the persons lynched were
Negroes. The offenses charged were
? murder, 7'; attempted murder, 2;
rape, 2; attempted rape, 3; improper
conduct, 1; charge not reported, 1.
The states in which lynching* occurred
and the number in each state
are as follows: Arkansas, 3; Kentucky,
I; Louisiana, 1; Mississippi, 7:
Missouri, 1; Tennessee, 2; Texas, 1."
I.oeb Left Huge Fortune.
New York , Dec. 30.?Albert 1J.,
Loeb of Chicago, vice president of
Sears Roebuck & Co., who died in,
October 1924, after his son Richart!,[
had been convicted of murder and
sent to prison for life, with Nathan
Leopold Jr., left gross estate of
$.3,233,360, a transfer tax appraisal
revealed today. His wife, Anna Loeb
was named sole beneficiary.
The will made no mention of his
son. Though it was drawn up five
years before his conviction.
The debts and administration expenses
totalled $1,620,543 included
$27,500 due Clarence Darrow, who
headed the defense counsel during
the I^eopold-Loeb trial, and $15,000
and $10,000 respectively due to Benjamin
and Walter Baehrach, who assisted
in the defense.
Negroes Wreck Bank.
Memphis. Tenn., Dec. 31.?Two
officials of the Fraternal Savings
Bank, a negro institution which
closed its door yesterday, confessed
late today -they had embezzled $50,000
of the bank's funds.
The two negroes, A. F. Ward,
president, and L. W. Williams,
cashier, asked police to keep them
in jail as they feared violence at
the hands of angry depositors.
OAnothor negro, Th\ F. J. Walker,
was arrested and charged with
larceny of $20,000 through dealings
with the bank, which was said to
have had deposits amounting to a
million dollars.
Tragedy in Rock Hill.
L'm k Hill Herald, IuesiLiy: Briet*
Kddy Dunlap, N-year-o!d son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. H. Dunlap of Fairview
sivenue. died this morning at 3
odotk in a !>cMi hospital as a res'?ilt
ol seven burns sustained Sunday
morning when his clothing caught
t'.tv a< he walked in front of an open
lire. 1 he family had gathered around
the t hristmas tree and were receiving
gifts when the child walked in
front of the lire. The flame immediate^
flashed over his outing night
clothes and before his mother could
bring a blanket from the adjoining
room the child's body was badly burned.
His father's hands were also
binned in an effort to extinguish the
flames. Funeral arrangements had
not been announced at an early hour
this afternoon.
A congressman arriving after the
appointed hour at Q$orge Washington's
home and finding the party at
the table was informed that the cook
at that home did not ask if the
guests had arrived but If the hour
had.
National President
. Mrs, Ldwatd-Stork _oi Camdc: ,.
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The Touring . . 495
The Coupe .... 595
The Four-Door
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North Broad Street Camden, S.C