Showing posts with label asylum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label asylum. Show all posts
Sunday, June 8, 2008

Says She is Sane

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New York, 1895 Sent to an Asylum After Marriage and Wants to Get Out. Mrs. Mary S. Half, 45 years old, who was committed to the Long Island ...
Monday, May 19, 2008

Grave Yards Not Wanted

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New York, 1895 Respecting Farmer John O'Donnell's suggestion that the Long Island railroad company establish cemeteries in the ...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Back To The Asylum

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New York, 1895 Mrs. Maggie Lepper, aged 40 years, was taken to Newtown Tuesday to undergo an examination as to her sanity. Mrs. Lepper is th...
Sunday, April 13, 2008

Temperance Notes

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1900 The first temperance journal to be published in Russia is the Viestnix Tresvosti (messenger of temperance). Its first issue appeared Se...
Thursday, April 10, 2008

Insane Man Clings to His Blind Wife

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1919 WILL BE RELEASED FROM ASYLUM TO JOIN HER. Love Keeps Sightless Girl and Mad Husband Together Despite Obstacles Imposed. NEW ORLEANS, La...
Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Slain By Naked Maniac

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Iowa, 1900 James Fitzsimmons Dead, Three Others Injured Cedar Rapids dispatch: Charles Mefford, a maniac, at 5 o'clock a.m. killed James...
Monday, June 11, 2007

Sledgehammer Bandits Raid St. Paul Safes

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1920 Also Steal 800 Quarts of Liquor From State Asylum ST. PAUL, Minnesota — The band of "sledgehammer" bandits, after looting mor...
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Thursday, June 7, 2007

Sane Woman Describes Her Experiences in Insane Asylum

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1905 "Ordeals There Would Drive Any One Crazy" NEW YORK, Dec 2. — "The best way to make a sane person demented is to send him...
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

A Two Day's Bride Insane

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Kansas, 1879 July 13 — Mr. Oliver Mottier was joined in matrimony with a very estimable young lady of Williambury. On Tuesday, the 15th, onl...
Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Pretty Co-ed Loses Heart to "Doctor," A Lunatic

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1920 Pretty Co-ed Loses Heart to "Doctor" Before She Finds He Is a Lunatic DES MOINES, Iowa — Before a pretty Drake University co-...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Faust Story in Court

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1901 Des Moines, Dec. 28 — Suit has been brought in the district court by J. R. Faust against the Hawkeye Insurance company to recover on a ...
Saturday, April 14, 2007

No Lunatic Asylums in Antiquity

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1912 Insane Asylums The great Greek physicians had devoted much attention to insanity, and some of their precepts anticipated modern discove...

Man Blows Off Head with Shotgun, Temporarily Insane

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Waupaca, Wisconsin, 1912 BLOWS HEAD OFF WITH A SHOT GUN George B. Rhodes Suicides While Temporarily Insane RELATIVES ARE SUMMONED Mr. and Mr...
Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Deaf and Dumb, Insane 42 Years, Ends His Life

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1913 ESCAPES ASYLUM BY SUICIDE Pauper, Born Deaf and Dumb, Ends Long Life As Public Charge BEACON, N. Y., Nov. 12 — Levi Bodine, deaf and du...
Friday, April 6, 2007

Wedded, Then 15 Minutes Later Off to Asylum

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1909-- WEDDED AND THEN TAKEN TO ASYLUM After Courting Girl Twelve Years Man Has Hard Luck. WORCESTER, Mass., Feb. 20.— Wedded to Miss A. Mar...