Boy Dies of Antrax; Woman Cutting Third Set of Teeth

1922

Illinois News Happenings

Harold Challacombe, six years old, is dead at Alton of anthrax. It is not known how the child contracted the disease.

A badger, the first found in years, was captured on a farm near Sterling. The animal weighed more than seventy-five pounds.

With the completion of the transferring of 343 square inches of skin from sixty-four persons to the body of Helen Hoage, sixteen-year-old explosion victim, Belvidere physicians declare that the most extensive skin grafting operation ever attempted in northern Illinois is a success.

Mrs. S. P. Leith, aged seventy, of Farina, is cutting her third set of teeth. A few days ago she had her teeth extracted, expecting to replace them with false ones. Soon after her gums healed she noticed they were swelling and a few days later she announced that some of her third set of teeth were breaking through her gums.

Every living thing in the Salt Fork river from Sidney east to Homer Park and for an equal distance west of Sidney has been killed by acid carried into the river from the Boneyard ranch in Champaign and Urbana, according to a statement made by C. E. Huff, state inspector of the department of agriculture, of which the game and fish division is a part.

Sudden deaths and misfortunes have beset the Van Duse family of St. Charles. Mrs. Leo Van Hove fell dead in her husband's arms a few days ago. Before the inquest her brother, Peter Van Duse, went in a taxicab to take another brother, Alphonse, to the proceedings. The taxicab turned over several miles from St. Charles. Peter was killed. Alphonse was probably fatally injured. Gus Alleman, the driver, was seriously hurt.

Now comes the bathtub, for hogs. It is advocated by the farm bureau of Jo Daviess county. The bureau says a bathtub for hogs is just as necessary as a similar modern improvement for human beings. The hog must be kept sanitary, and the only way to do it is to build it a tub and let it wash. "It has been found," says the bureau publication, "that a bathtub made of planks, eight feet long, four feet wide and one foot deep is a good size. Place it in the shade, fill it half full of water, add one pint of a coal-tar dip as a disinfectant and a tablespoonful of crude oil on top. This bath can be cleaned out and renewed frequently. A sanitary bath has been found to prevent hog troubles from progressing."

—The Pointer, Riverdale/Dolton, Illinois, July 28, 1922, page 8.