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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 1923)
Bays Suffer From Poison of Rat Bites Strange Disease Develops on Half-Brothers at Universi ty Hospital—Malady Not Fatal. _ * Many patients with unusual and sometimes mysterious maladies are cared for out at the University of Nebraska hospital. But of all these cases doctors assert the illness of the half brothers, Charles Jay, 12, and Charles Russell, 11, is the rarest and most perplexing. These two boys were bitten by a rat on September 23 while visiting their grandfather at Plattsmouth, Neb. The rat had been caught in a wire trap. The boys decided to play with it. They prepared a rope to lasso the rat and opened the door of the cage. The lasso missed the rat, and one of the boys seized it to prevent it from escaping. The rat bit him on the right hand. lie dropped it and the other boy seized it, only to be bitten in exactly the same place on his right hand. It was two weeks before the poison .’rom the rat's bite began to act. A nurse at Cass school discovered it. The boys were given medical atten ELDRIDGE Our Annual $1 SALE Thursday, Friday, Saturday 1313-1315 Fa mam St. If You Are Seeking HEALTH Investigate Chiropractic No matter what your '[ disease may be, you | can investigate with safety, as no qualified practitioner will ac cept a case he cannot help. 1712 Dodge, Gardner Bldg. » AT lantic 1293 i lion, but me swelling in tneir nanus and arms became worse. They were taken to University hospital. Rat Bite Fever. Several doctors examined the boys. Their condition was serious and the doctors were somewhat puzzled. It appeared that at least one of the boys was suffering from that rare malady known as "rat bite fever.” Few such cases have ever been re ported. Knowledge of the illness is limited. The action of the disease has been similar In all the known cases, how ever. The patient, at regular inter vals of from a week to a month, chills and then has a high fever. Rash generally appears on the body. The illness of Charles Jay, the old er boy, corresponds almost entirely to the course of the disease, except that there is no rash on his body. It is believed that every 14th day he has a chill, followed by a high fever, which on one occasion reach ed 105.5. The next chill and fever Is due to arrive Sunday. It strikes the youth between 6 and 7 in the evening and heretofore the fever has subsided by morning. The other boy is recover ing from the poisoning, and does not suffer from chills and fever. Both IVill Recover. Although not minimizing the seri ousness of the situation, doctors be lieve both youths will become entirely well. Dr. Walter Judd, who is serv ing as an intern at the hospital, has been studying the case cnrefully, and has done some research work in con nection with it. "The boys didn't tell me they had been bitten by the rat until the nurse at the school found their hands were poisoned,” explained Mrs. Russell, mother of both boys, who lives at 401 North Fifteenth street. It was a common house rat, too. Gray Asks Time for Railroads Union Pacific Head Says Car riers Are Slowly Recover ing From Losses. Plea for a furthern test of present railroad legislation was made Tuesday night by Carl Gray, president of the Union Pacific railroad, in an address before the Omaha Grain club at the University club. His topic was on pending legislation affecting the op eration of carriers. Mr. Gray outlined the present sys tem of federal control and declared that the railroads, "though not yet earning a fair return on their invest ment,” have made progress toward such a point. "The country cannot afford to tamper with this law now,” he said. "It has not had a chance to operate in a normal year and it would be disastrous to carriers of the country to pass furthern legislation at this time.” The speaker said that rates have not increased in proportion to prices of commodities they carry, or in pro portion to the materials which the railroads themselves must buy. Youth Is Grid Victim. Pipestone, Minn., Nov. 14.—Joe Fox. 17 years old, of Elbow Woods, N. D., a student at the government Indian school here, died of injuries received while practicing with the football team. Starting Thursday— A FORCED SALE! Caused by the Backward Season and s Continued Warm Weather. Entire Stock of Coats Thrown in This Great Sale at Reductions of 2d% 331/s% j It’s a business proposition witli us. Take our loss now or later on. We’ve decided to take it now. Coats of finest materials and richest fur trimmings, daringly sacrificed. Choose from all new colors—styles of the hour. Three Sensational Groups: $29.50 to $39.50 coats in A 7 C black, brown and grays; fur- J trimmed, in sale. $49.60 to $69.60 coats of AA7C finest materials, rich fur col- ^ * ** lars; choice of many at. a J — Beautiful coats with beaver ^ AC[j or squirrel collars and cuffs, worth to $95.00; on sale_ |l ■ - All our higher priced coats urid wraps |3 have been comparatively reduced. Many > stylish stout models included in this sale. A w w Two Thrilling Dress Specials Offerings that will compel the most intensified sort of dress buying—the savings are beyond your fondest hopes. ■' $14.90 150 wool and silk dresses worth up to $35; styles of the minute. " $21.75 Beautiful canton crepe and Poiret twills — smartest new rreationi — every dress worth I double. H. A. REYNOLDS Don’t Forget the Address—203 S. 15th St. Boy, Father and Woman They Seek Mr. and Mrs. II. I.. Sights of Portland, Ore., and their son, Wilfred Sights, 8, who has maintained a vigil at the general delivery window at the postoffice for five days, waiting for his mother to appear. -t A Queer World 3 Men, in Hot Pursuit of Some One Who Stole Their Car, Are Them selves Arrested a- Auto Thieves, On the Ollier Foot, Los Angeles, No. 14.—Three men in hot pursuit of an automobile some one hail stolen from them are in jail here today on a charge of stealing the ear in which they were doing the pursuing. t When jailed the three gave their names as It. Delimit, 2:4; (i. Delimit, 19, and It. Hawley, 19, all of Chicago. Their story, police said ran about as follows: They left Chicago in their own tar and then picked up a man in Iowa, who stole it when they reached Oro ville, Cal. Determined to recover their property they "borrowed” another rar and sped in pursuit of their miss ing passenger. They were still pur suing when the police cangiit them. • • • All Mixed i p, Fresno, Cal., Xuv. 14.—In a re cent operation on J. C. Moran, Fresno policeman, it was discovered his appendix was in the left chest, according to Dr George II. Sclaronl, operating surgeon. The operation also revealed that Moran's heart Is on the right side and that he has no left lung, according to Dr. Scaronl. Moran Is an active duty with the Fresno police department having pa«s»(l physical examina tions for the army with which he served in the Philippines and for the FrPsno fire department. • • • • Berkeley, Cal., Nov. 14.—Motion pictures and the radio are being sub stituted in leisure hours for the "flowing howl” and are doing murh to eliminate drink and enforce the prohibition laws, according to Dr. Warner Brown, professor of psy chology at the Cniversity of California. Professor Itrown declared there was no evidence to show that gentlemen of the middle-ages who imbibed deeply in the "cup tiiat < beers” did any more mental work titan people now do. "Men think when there are prob lems to solve,” he said. "Problems differ according to the epoch—but tlnee are always problems.” Mother-in-Law Asks Court Aid St. Clairsville, O . Nov. 14.—An eld erly woman, calling at the office of Prosecutor Herbert W. Mitchell, com plained that her son was. “being slowly starved to death” because his bride 'won't cook the same way" the mother-in law does. Mother-in-law wanted prosecutor to step In and 'save'' her son's life. Prosecutor Mitchell told her that the young man 'should speak for himself” to the bride. Being mar ried himself, the prosecutor knows what an outsider might expect if he intervened. 'That’s just the trouble. The poor hoy seems to like her cooking, hut I lynow what's good for him. Didn’t l cook for him for 2R years?” asked the indignant mother in law ns she left the prosecutor's office. The great all-year out-door play ground— land of sunshine, fruits and flowers. Straight through without change from Omaha in 55 hours, on the luxurious all-Pullman Igsjbndelesiimited 4-other trains direct for California Two daily trains to Denver with con nections for California. Living accommodations In California «o tult—Mg faaMonabla hotela, family hotala, apartments, bungalows, boarding houses, all moderately priced. Qood schools for tba children. For California booklet*, tierping car rase row* tiant and full information at k A- f Cf". CUT P*« Anent, U. P. Ryatam. r ,, ?4I#, St , Omaha. Phona Jack,on ckj, Consolidated Ticket Office Union Siaiinn .4«6 Dodge St.. Phone Atlantic ®i.4 " .oth and wirly Street, Union Pacific Hoy Holds Long Vigil for Mother Sits at Postoffice ^ indow All Day Long Waiting for Miss ing Parent to Call for Mail. — For five long, grief-filled days little Wilfred Sights, 8, hns sat at the gen eral delivery window in the Omaha postoffice, hoping to get some trace of his missing mother. Wilfred and his father, I?. L. Sights, came all the way from Portland, Ore., in the hope of finding the mother here. There are four letters ad dressed to her at the general delivery window, and the boy will not leave the window for fear his mothr might come for the letter* during his ab sence. Scene of Pathos. Accustomed as are the men at the general delivery window to sight* of sadness, they did not fall to notice the pathos on the countenance of the little boy when he first appeared. They placed a stool near the window for him to sit on when the$- found he intended to remain. And now the lad sits there all day long, waiting. "I pray that she'll come to this window,” said Wilfred. "She would come if she knew I was here waiting, I know.” Always Together. The boy and his father explained that the mother Ih 40 and that the three of them had always been to gether until she left on a trip to Idaho to visit friends. She did not stop with the friends, however, they learned, and since then they have traced her to Omaha, where they fear she is ill, or has met with some other misfortune. Sights says he and his son will go from here to Lallarpe, 111., if the mother is not found by Thursday night. But the little boy sits silently, wait ing. Samardiek Reads Bible, Robert Samardiek, general prohibi tion agent, receives all sorts of let ters. Some are from jealous bootleg gers who desire to give information others are from people who are In sympathy with his work. Yesterday Mr. Samardie k received a copy of one of the sermons which appear every day in The Omaha Bee The sermon was that of the Rev Douglas Lalng, Kingston, Ont. The text was: "Men ought always to pray and not to faint. Luke 18:1. Samardiek says he reads the Bible every day. Swap your house for a business. Read the Classified ads. T Jail Term on Hr end and Uater for Man Twice Convicted of Speeding Dps Moines, la., Nov. 14.—Five days in Jail on bread and water was the sentence passed by Judge Tom L. Sellers here yesterday upon W. A. Swab, who had been convicted for the second time within a few days of vio lating the speed lawB. Judge Sellers refused Swab's plea that he be per mitted to pay a heavy fine instead of going to jail. Fourteen other speeds paid fines today, rangipg from $15 to $23, and Fred Hyland of Oskaloosa was as sessed $100 for driving 40 miles an hour in the downtown district. Three Victims of Diphtheria Die Three deaths resulting from diph theria were reported to the city health department Wednesday. They were George Romes, 2, 5640 South Twentieth street, Agnes Eckex. Forty second and R streets, and Elsie Dishop, 4. 6713 South Twenty seventh street. This brings the total deaths from diphtheria so far this month to six. although only 27 cases have been re ported. East month there were 11 death3, and 107 cases reported. Dr. A. S. Pinto, city health com missioner, urged parents to consult a physician as soon as their children develop symptoms of the disease . $7r>.000 Damage Suit Begins. Jury to try the $75,000 damage suit brought against the Chicago, Burling ton & Quincy railroad by Otto Schwandt, for injuries received when he was struck by a locomotive at Fifth and Bierce streets, seven months ago, was impaneled Wednesday in , federal court. AN ADVERTISEMENT BY EDWARD REYNOLDS CO. Here is the most welcome news to be announced by this store this sea son. It is news of a wonderful sell ing of fine coats at prices that will read like a fairy tale. We have planned for weeks on this event. Nothing has been left undone tc make it the season's greatest mer chandise achievement. If you have need of a new coat and desire tc secure it at a price temptingly low, then make your plans now to be here Friday without fail. N'o mattei how exacting your coat needs ma> be, you are certain of complete satisfaction from the assemblage ol coats that will greet you here. Watch this paper Thursday for full details of Edward Reynolds Great est Coat Sale. EDWARD REYNOLDS CO. 1613 Farnam Street Killer Bandits Murder 2 Men .Shoot to Death Bank Messen gers at Brooklyn Subway Station—Seize $43,600. tty AmorlHtfd Pr«i. New York, Nov. 14.—Two bank mes sengers were murdered by two bandits who stole $43,600 from them in a spectacular holdup today at the Fifty fifth street station of the West Knd subway line in Brooklyn. The station was filled with persons on their way to work when the ban dits opened fire, later fleeing with the money in an automobile for which the police sent out a general alarm within a fifty mile radius of the city. The messengers shot were William .S. Barlow and William H. McLaugh lin, both of Brooklyn, and employed by the West End tank. They w^t* taking the money to another tank* • Mrs. Kels Has Breakdown Lodi," Cal.. Nov. 14.—Shock o learning that her husband when she believed dead, is alive and awi:l ing death on the gallows for murde^ has caused Mrs. Alexander A. Kels to suffer a serious breakdown. 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Give a Radio to the Family This Christmas. * Schmoller&JHueller Piano Co I JgtfV!IW.ft.lJLM-iawjuyrj*' j j 15l4-i6-18-Dod<fce St..* * * Omaha Magnificent Winter Coats Generously Furred—Superbly Self-Trimmed RrCU. flattering coats that fairly envelope one with their luxury—luxury of style, luxury of material and lining luxury. These coats are intended only for the woman who would not be content with anything short of the best. Milady will find in these groupings the one coat that has been a part of her dreams. Both Regular Sizes and Stouts Fur Trimmings of Viatka Squirrel, Black Fox. Natural Squirrel. Beaver, Brown Fox, Red Fox and Wolf. * I Another Fur Trimmed Coat Grouping— JCCT ! Extraordinary values at. 00 Junior Cloth Dresses Sizes 14 to 16 The most acceptable style*, straight line, tubular, tle-to-sido and coat effects; wool checks, polret twill, wool Jersey and wool crepes. Novelty color touches, embroidery and plaited skirts. Colors: Navy, rose wood. tan and brown. All specially priced at only— $14.50 $22.50 $32.50 Second Floor % Thursday Silk Costume Slips Of habatul silk, well tailored, bodice top; colors: Black, navy, brown and tan. Spe cial for— $2.95 A Special Purchase and Sale of Petticoats Straight line models, plaited flounee models, fringe models, embroidered models, straight and Irregular edg ings. The materials are— Victoire Jersey Treco Jersey High Grade Tricolette Radionette livery Imaginable color and combing tion. Including reseda, navy, tan, blue* Jay, brown, black, henna, emerald, taupe, flesh, fusehla. purple, American beauty, robin's egg blue and plum. Ilegnlar si/es only; values M.55 to $7.95; on sale Thursday— . k % ) rettleoAt lean#—Second Floor Childrens New Bloomer Dresses 2 to 6 Yen* Beautifully developed In velvet, wool jer aey nnd wool crepe, with hand applique, hand embroidery and ribbon triCi\o;s. Nut brown, copen. rust, tan and brown— $6.50 $7.75 $11.75 813.75 Second Floor Sport Hose for the Colder Weather \>w wool*. atlk and wool; women's sjvrt hosf*. at— $1.25. $1.65. $1.75. $2.25 Up to $5.95 \ Colors: tlray. bolRC, brown. tan. saud. I also heather mixture* amt black. I Main Floor I