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In the tiled passageways connecting New York City subway lines are colorful posters advertising businesses and products. One endorses The New School, a progressive university in Manhattan with a goal of supporting continuing education. Above a lush Gauguin painting, it counsels “IT’S NOT TOO LATE”, and reminds commuters that “At 35, Paul Gauguin was a stockbroker.” In the margin, someone has written “At 35, Mozart was dead.”
On one of the patriotic holidays, I decide to visit the grave of Gordon Gilchrest, my senior vice president when I worked at the Continental Insurance/Insco data center in Neptune. The Find-A-Grave website has lied to me; when I arrive at the advertised cemetery, he’s not there. I learn that he was cremated there, but his ashes were relocated by his family to Valhalla, New York. A helpful woman at the Kensico Cemetery there sends me scrupulous directions, along with a plot map. Maybe I’ll take a ride up to Westchester County this fall.
Rather than a “father figure”, Gordon always seemed to me more like a grandfather figure. Whenever I was called to his office to discuss some company business, we generally spent an extra 20 minutes covering his latest round of golf. He knew that I had been a caddie as a youth, but not for how long, and assumed incorrectly I had something beyond the most rudimentary knowledge of the game,
I learned very little about golf as a caddie, faking my way around the course carrying bags for leathery old ladies, and had never played a round myself. With Gordon, mostly I just listened to his play-by-play (“The 13th there is a dogleg left…”) and nodded as he broke open his second pack of Luckys that day.
Gordon had been in the Marines, fighting in the Pacific as a young second lieutenant. He and his platoon had fought their way through the Japanese defenses of several “stepping-stone” islands, taking bloody losses. He hated the Japanese, and years later if we had visitors from Continental’s Tokyo office or from a Japanese company trying to sell us some computer gear, he made sure to be out of the office that day.
One day there was a mix-up, and a delegation from the Tokyo office arrived in the executive suite without anyone having warned Gordon. During the introductions and pleasantries, one young visitor asked “Have you ever been to Japan, Gordon?” Gordon simply answered “yes”, and after a few minutes left the building.
Gordon, my boss’s boss at Continental Insurance, was a Scotsman, and he met the Scottish stereotype for thriftiness. In addition to leasing our computers, he oversaw the company’s phone services, including those of the computer room and branch offices, and paid the bills. He was a talented manager of the company’s money, and of his own.
He lived in Brielle, an upscale town at the Jersey Shore. One day he told me he had asked the phone company to set up his home service as an old-fashioned party line, getting a monthly discount.
I knew how party lines worked from visiting my uncle’s farm as a kid in the 1940s. A single line, a length of wire, was shared with several neighbors. Each neighbor had their own unique incoming ring code, such as two longs and three shorts.
When an incoming call arrived, the code rang on every phone on the line. If it was your code, you answered. If it wasn’t, and you were nosy, you could quietly listen in. Anyone else on the party line could listen in, too.
To make a call, you picked up the phone and hoped to hear the operator say “Number, please.” If instead you heard a neighbor talking, you tried again later.
I didn’t understand why Gordon would want to put up with all that uncertainty just to save a few dollars. He explained that no one else in Brielle would ever want to be on a party line, so for him it was a private line, at a reduced price. Gordon was always one step ahead.
“Study Chairman Mao’s writings, follow his teachings and act according to his instructions.” — preface by Lin Piao
In 1967, Mimi asked her sister to babysit and we took a ride to Montreal to visit that year’s World’s Fair, also known as Expo 67. As we wandered through the different countries’ pavilions, we came to a table loaded with stacks of the first English translation of Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book. I instantly wanted my own copy of that much-reviled and radical book, partly out of curiosity but mainly because I didn’t think I was supposed to have one – what was the big mystery? The Chinese ladies staffing the table happily took my fifty cents, and the Cold War ended. Well, not quite yet.
Mimi was not comfortable with my purchase, and, referring to the authorities we’d have to face when we crossed the border back into the United States, worried “What if they find it?” I didn’t expect I’d have to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee if they did find it, but back in 1967, who knew? Before we started home, I hid it in the trunk of the car, under our literal dirty laundry.
I left the book on my bedside table and read a little bit off and on; it was interesting in parts but kind of a slog. I wonder what my brother would have thought, given that he had been an infantryman fighting in Korea when the Red Chinese started streaming across the border to reinforce the North.
Researching pictures for this post, I was surprised to find that the People’s Republic of China, mainland “Red” China, did not host a pavilion at the fair. So where did I get that book? Probably at the Soviet Union pavilion, the most popular one there. I think the Russians likely shared some of their exhibition space with their Marxist comrades. Wherever it was, the space was decorated with heroic propaganda posters exhorting the citizenry to increase production in all things.
In unrelated Expo 67 news, I remember trolling an exasperated staffer at the Bell Telephone pavilion over whether dialing the newfangled “pushbutton phone” being demonstrated was really faster than the rotary model, and if so, was that bit of speed important?
The Mao book did eventually cause a problem, I believe. My cousin Barbara lived out in southwest Jersey somewhere toward the Delaware River, so family get-togethers were seldom. However, at Barbara’s husband’s funeral Mimi and I renewed our friendship with her, and we invited her and her teenage daughters to visit us. One day they did, and after lunch, the two girls went upstairs to change for the beach.
In a few minutes, they came back down and had a quick huddle with their mother, who then made some not-very-convincing excuse to leave and the three departed, never to be heard from again. What I think happened was that while doing some normal teenage-girl snooping, they saw the Mao book on my bedside table. This is just a theory, I never shared it with my wife, but why else would they leave in such a hurry?
Anyone who isn’t scared off by now can read a dozen or so selected quotations here. See you at re-education camp!
Back when the connection from my brain to my mouse and keyboard was faster, I always took the online Jeopardy! entrance test when it came up. I think I usually passed, but they don’t tell you unless you’re selected for an audition, and I never was.
To me, the contestant-interview part of the program is usually boring; some viewers even fast-forward it. I resolved not to be fast-forwarded, and to have the required “Five interesting facts about me for Alex” ready well in advance.
They were:
For extra credit,
My wife’s sister Marg went to parochial school at Saint Columba’s, just a couple of blocks from where we lived in Newark.
Marg’s friend Sandy was as innocent and bashful as any 16-year-old Catholic school girl could be. Her mother sent her to the butchers to get chicken breasts for dinner, but she was too embarrassed to say the word “breasts”, so she asked for “chicken chests” instead.
I was barely out of my own teens then, and I loved ferrying Marg and her girlfriends back and forth from their dances and other school events. It was like having a carload of ultra-cute nieces. Besides Sandy, the regular passengers I remember were Dolores, Geraldine, Loretta and Annette.
There was a Barbara, too, sometimes. She lived the furthest from the school, out by Ballantine’s brewery. I’ve always been partial to the name Barbara, so she was kind of my favorite; there’s just something about that name. I never had a girlfriend named Barbara, but I did have a cousin Barbara that I liked a lot when I was kid, so maybe that’s it.
Writing this, I could picture one other girl, but couldn’t remember her name. I knew it sounded French and that I’d recognize it if I saw it. Google led me to a site promising “Top 1000 popular baby names in 1944”, the year Marg and probably most of the other girls were born. The site was babynames.it, the ‘.it’ meaning located in Italy. I began scanning the girls’ names column, stopping at times to recall a bit of life detail floated up by a familiar name. Eventually, at 307th in popularity, there it was, “Camille”.
Camille herself wasn’t French, though, she was Italian like most of the other girls. A few years later she stayed with Marg babysitting our kids when Mimi and I drove up to Expo 67. She was sort of a favorite too, and maybe a little more sophisticated than the rest. Later, she worked at Bamberger’s and let me use her employee discount to buy stereo gear, so that was nice.
Also at the baby names site, I learned how to pronounce the newly-popular girl’s name ‘Saoirse’, as in actress Saoirse Ronan. It’s properly pronounced SEER-sha, assuming we can trust the pronunciation of an unusual Irish girl’s name to an Italian web site. SEER-sha does sound like the way I’ve heard it, though.
I was working at the Foodland store in Elizabeth then, and companies like Heinz pickles and Sta-Puf fabric softener were always competing to get more shelf space for their products, usually by gifting store management with some thing of minor value. At Foodland, the definition of “management” was loose, extending all the way down to the bookkeeper, me.
One company tried to curry Foodland favor with tickets to a concert by Bobby Darin, the teen heartthrob of the day — ‘Dream Lover’, ‘Beyond the Sea’, lots more. No one else was interested in going, so I collected their tickets and turned them over to Marg to pass along. I provided concert transportation too, but didn’t go inside.
One summer Mimi and I rented a house up at Lake Hopatcong for two weeks. I had just changed jobs, so I didn’t have enough seniority to take my vacation during the summer. I commuted daily from the lake to Newark on I-80, not finished yet but hosting light traffic. There were no police assigned to the stretch yet, so you could go as fast as you thought you’d still be able to stop for a deer, if that’s clear. Fortunately I never saw any deer; I think the new road and its shoulders were so wide the deer were afraid to venture into all that open space.
The house was right on the lake and we had lots of room, so Marg invited her girlfriends to stay, visiting in shifts. They were good kids, and we loved having them around.
After Mimi and I were married, we lived with her sister and mother on Pennsylvania Avenue in Newark. Her sister was about 16, and as she walked to school, boys in passing cars would call out to each other “Mira! Mira!”.
Mimi took the bus to work every day, at the Mega Foods store in Scotch Plains where she was the bookkeeper. I picked her up every night, and that’s where we bought our weekly groceries. A hundred dollars’ worth of groceries filled the trunk and half the back seat.
At the end of Pennsylvania Avenue was small, triangular Lincoln Park. President Kennedy’s motorcade was once rerouted past it to counter a threat about traveling on Broad Street. Mimi didn’t know Kennedy was in town that day, but she and our 3-year-old got to see him and wave as he went by.
A little-noted Lincoln Park event months earlier was a battle between blacks and Puerto Ricans. During the fighting, park benches were disassembled and their slats used as lances and clubs. When I saw the fighting from a block away, I thought to myself, “Boy, I’m glad I’m not involved.” The police eventually arrived and broke it up. Helping to keep the city’s lid on, the newspapers made no mention of the event.
We seldom overslept on holidays, because if there was a parade involved the sections formed up in front of our house before moving to the main route on Broad Street. We shared our porch steps with excited band families and early parade-goers.
Mimi and I went to the Mosque Theater, now Newark Symphony Hall, to hear Nina Simone. We were led to the balcony and seated there with the other white people, 20 or 30 of us. We didn’t care, she was fantastic.
Mimi has read about a cooling summer drink called “The Pimm’s Cup” which requires 3/4 cup of Pimm’s #1 liqueur. She asks me to pick up a bottle, and next day on my way home I stop at the S. Klein On The Square department store, which has a liquor department. I ask the help for a bottle of “Pimm’s Cup”, having to repeat myself twice. They chortle, this is a new one on them, and they keep calling back and forth “Pimp’s Cup, Pimp’s Cup” until they locate one.
There was a small, smoky fire in the rooming house across the street. Even before the fire trucks arrived, the residents were outside on folding chairs, watching a ballgame on their rabbit-eared TV, an extension cord plugged into the vestibule of the church next door.
Our neighbor dies and while the family is at the funeral his house is robbed. The neighborhood is changing.
Moving in
When Pennsylvania Avenue started going downhill, Mimi and I found an apartment in a two-family house in a nicer part of town, Highland Avenue in Newark’s North Ward. It was near Branch Brook Park and close to my job. For a few weeks before we moved in, I stopped by for a couple hours every day on my way home, painting and putting up wallpaper. The owners, Fred and Evelyn, lived in the upstairs apartment and were happy to see the downstairs looking nice again. Our rent was very reasonable, only $90 a month. A few years later, they raised it, apologetically, to $95.
The neighborhood
With some exceptions, our neighborhood was Italian, from the family-friendly bar at one end of the block to Celentano’s latticini food store and pasta works at the other. A fancy Italian bakery was a few blocks west on Bloomfield Avenue; small and casual Vesuvio’s restaurant was a half block east. A tiny grocery store, John’s, was in the middle of our block, two steps down into what was once someone’s cellar. On the narrow shelves along one wall, there was just enough room for four units of any item you might need to make a meal or do a load of laundry. After you left, John would go into the back room and restock the shelf.
One exception to the mostly-Italian rule lived a few doors down, an Irish gent so pale that our new neighbor Josie referred to him as Mozzarella Face. My family and I were also exceptions to the rule, the worst kind, new arrivals to the neighborhood. When the window of a garage behind our back fence had a rock thrown through it, the owner implied that our five-year-old was responsible, saying “There was never any trouble in this neighborhood until your kind moved in.” I asked my son about it later. He didn’t want to get anyone in trouble, but he finally told me who threw the rock. I was happy to tell the garage owner that she might want to talk to little Carlo Parisi, a budding sociopath from the other end of the block.
The Saint
It’s true – you don’t realize what you have until it’s gone. One day we heard the sound of a brass band, and a religious procession began making its way down our cobblestone street. If you’ve watched the Sicilian funeral procession that opens Godfather II, you know what they sounded like. Our landlady Evelyn ran downstairs to announce “The Saint is coming!” and asked “Do you have your money ready!?” Mimi and I just looked at each other. By nature, I am a suspicious type, and I asked why we needed money. She said “For the Saint! To put on the Saint!”, as though it was the dumbest question she’d ever heard. Mimi was brought up Catholic, but this was a new one on her too, and we looked at each other again. Evelyn said “You have to, it’s bad luck if you don’t!”
So we located some cash and stepped outside. I hate making another Godfather comparison, but if you’ve seen the feast day procession in Godfather II during which Don Fanucci meets his end, you’ve seen the feast day procession of Saint Gerard too, Saint Gerard’s on a smaller scale of course. When the procession paused for a moment, someone gave us pins and we pinned our offering to the statue of Saint Gerard Majella, patron saint of motherhood, pregnancy, and those trying to conceive.
Summer fun
During the summer, portable kiddie rides like the Whip and the Ferris Wheel came by and parked for a few hours. Looking at the pictures now, the rides look pretty tame, but the smaller kids were crazy about them. A Good Humor or Mr. Softee ice cream truck usually tagged along.
For personal fun, Fred made radio-controlled airplanes in his cellar workshop, big buzzy ones with a four-foot wingspan. I went flying with him once out in the boondocks. It was fun, but I think he was disappointed that I wasn’t interested in taking it up as a hobby myself.
The North Ward seemed to be hosting the last hurrah of the horse and wagon. A wagon carrying fresh, green produce clopped down the street regularly, and every Friday a peddler of tripe, a local favorite, came by shouting “a-tree-po! a-tree-po!”. For anyone wondering, tripe is the stomach lining of a cow. I have not tried it. Occasionally the ragman’s sad wagon came by, with him calling out his offer to buy rags and old clothes.
I was making good money on my sales route, and we bought a window air conditioner, one of the first on the block. I put strips of red reflective tape on the sides so no one coming up the alley after dark would walk into it. With Fred’s blessing, I hired an electrician to add another circuit to our box downstairs. Under the air conditioner’s friendly hum, on Memorial Day 1964, Mimi and I made another baby.
Toward the end
The father who was treasurer of our son’s Cub Scout pack skipped town with the proceeds of a candy sale they held to finance a trip. I was elected the new treasurer. When I called Scout headquarters to ask what the Scouts could do about the stolen money, basically they said “Tough”, and that the kids were out of luck. So, the kids did not get to go on their trip, and justice was not served. I regret now that I didn’t threaten to notify the newspapers; that would have made them step up, I’m sure. Of course, nowadays the Scouts have bigger embarrassments to worry about.
A young Hispanic couple moved into the second floor of the building across the street. Their electricity wasn’t on yet, but I could see generally what was going on. She was leaning with folded arms on the windowsill, watching traffic. He stepped up behind her, flipped her dress over her back and together they christened their new apartment. I didn’t watch all of it, but it was sweet. May their first child be a masculine child.
While still on Highland Avenue, I finished computer school and got my first programming job, at Condé Nast Publications in New York City. Looking back, Condé was the best place I ever worked. I loved working there, but I didn’t love getting there — if it weren’t for the commute, I probably would have stayed there until they carried me out. Instead, I took a programming job at Hess Oil in Woodbridge, with the goal of eventually moving my family to the shore.
Moving out
While I worked at Hess, we took the next step. We found a winter rental at the shore and made it our base while we looked for what optimistic people call their “Forever Home”.
Our Newark neighbors, including Mozzarella Face, whose real name was Tom, helped us load the U-Haul.
I began commuting from the shore to Hess, 40 minutes each way, always keeping an eye out for a job closer to home.
Doesn’t anybody stay in one place anymore
It would be so fine to see your face at my door
– Carole King
In a moment of nostalgia, I look on Google Earth for the Continental Insurance data center in Neptune where I worked 35 years ago. The once starkly modern three-story building looks abandoned, its parking lots empty and overgrown. Trying to find an earlier view with any signs of life, I have to go back in the timeline more than twelve years.
I drive past the building to get a closer look, and see that giant demolition machines have begun chewing away at it. Already one corner of the building has been torn away – the third-floor executive offices are now just a ragged hole and a pile of broken concrete. Gone too is my up-and-comer, double-size cubicle location in the corner of the floor below. I think of my lost friends and moving myself and my family around the country chasing the next, better job.
All lost in the moves, me, all, all lost in the moves.
Even moving to another town, let alone another state, we lose something. It’s too bad we can’t all stay and live and love where we were born and not have all this loss.
While doing family tree research, I ran across a file that listed the cause of death and other details for 15,339 burials in the Wilkes-Barre, PA city cemetery. They date from the mid-1800s up to about 1960, when they slow down and stop, probably because of computers. Causes include such as “dropsy”, “fits”, “powder mill explosion” and “suicide by whisky”.
Here is what people were dying of back then, with the count for each cause. Many of these 2,300+ causes are duplicates except for small spelling or stylistic differences. I didn’t try to fix anything. When there was only one instance of a particular cause, I left the count blank to avoid clutter.
Trigger warning: some of these will make you very sad.
| count | cause of death | |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | ? | |
| ? & confinement 3 | ||
| 2 gsws in back of head: murder investigation | ||
| 35 yrs. | ||
| abb appendix | ||
| abcess | ||
| abcess of limbs | ||
| abcess of stomach | ||
| abcess on brain | ||
| abdominal aorta | ||
| abdominal cancer | ||
| abdominal tuberculosis | ||
| abdominal tumor | ||
| abnormal aorta | ||
| abortion | ||
| 7 | abscess | |
| abscess & died in hospital | ||
| abscess in foot | ||
| abscess in the head | ||
| abscess inside | ||
| 4 | abscess of brain | |
| abscess of lob. | ||
| abscess of lung | ||
| abscess of lungs | ||
| abscess on head | ||
| abscess on lung | ||
| 4 | absess | |
| absess & sore on leg | ||
| absess in head | ||
| absess of bowel | ||
| absess of bowels | ||
| absess of liver | ||
| absess of stomach | ||
| 84 | accident | |
| accident - fractured skull | ||
| accident crushed head | ||
| accident dislocation vertebrae | ||
| accident due to burns | ||
| 9 | accident in mines | |
| accident on cars | ||
| accident on r. r. | ||
| accident on railroad | ||
| accident swallowing meat | ||
| accident with street car | ||
| accident: fell in stone quarry | ||
| accident; collapse of the bennett building | ||
| accident; struck by car june 14th | ||
| 17 | accidental | |
| accidental (jumped from window-suicide) | ||
| 2 | accidental burns | |
| accidental choking | ||
| accidental death: mine explosion | ||
| accidental drowing | ||
| 2 | accidental drowning | |
| accidental drowning in susquehanna river | ||
| accidental electrocution | ||
| 2 | accidental fall | |
| accidental fall of rock | ||
| accidental gun shot wound to the heart | ||
| accidental hanging while trying to get in window | ||
| accidental r/r | ||
| 2 | accidental shooting | |
| accidentally run over by street car in miner's mills | ||
| accidently killed | ||
| accidently run over in mines | ||
| accidently shot | ||
| accidently shot by brother at lake nuangola | ||
| accidently shot by his brother william while hunting at fox hill | ||
| acdinental fall | ||
| acute aedema larynx | ||
| acute aftersis myocardial infection | ||
| acute albuminuria | ||
| 9 | acute alcoholism | |
| 2 | acute appendicitis | |
| 4 | acute brights disease | |
| 6 | acute bronchitis | |
| 5 | acute cardiac dilatation | |
| acute cardiac dilation | ||
| acute cardiac dilatitis | ||
| acute cardiac failure | ||
| acute cardiac insufficiency | ||
| acute cardio failure | ||
| acute cerebral vascular accident | ||
| acute circulatory failure | ||
| acute congenital heart failure | ||
| 2 | acute coronary occlusion | |
| acute coronary thrombosis | ||
| 11 | acute dilatation of heart | |
| acute dilation of heart | ||
| 2 | acute dilitation | |
| acute dilitation of heart | ||
| 2 | acute dysentery | |
| 2 | acute endocarditis | |
| acute endoracditis | ||
| acute enteritis | ||
| acute erysipelas | ||
| acute exaculation of a chronic alchoholism | ||
| acute gas | ||
| acute gastio intestinal infection | ||
| acute gastriitis | ||
| 5 | acute gastritis | |
| acute gastro enteritis | ||
| 2 | acute heart disease | |
| 6 | acute heart failure | |
| acute hemorrhagic gastritis | ||
| acute hepatitus | ||
| acute hydrocefalus | ||
| acute hydrocephalis | ||
| acute ileo colitis | ||
| 5 | acute indigestion | |
| acute indo carditis | ||
| acute intestinal obstruction | ||
| 2 | acute laryngitis | |
| 3 | acute meningitis | |
| acute mi | ||
| acute myocardial infarction | ||
| acute myocardial infection | ||
| acute myocardial insufficiency | ||
| acute myocardio infection | ||
| 6 | acute myocarditis | |
| acute myocarditis infection | ||
| 15 | acute nephritis | |
| acute nephritis after scarlet fever | ||
| acute occlusion | ||
| acute pancarditis | ||
| 2 | acute pericarditis | |
| 2 | acute peritonitis | |
| acute peutonitia | ||
| 2 | acute pneumonia | |
| acute pulmonary edema | ||
| acute pulmonary hemorrhage | ||
| acute pulmonary tuberculosis | ||
| acute sinusitis | ||
| acute tonsilitis | ||
| 2 | acute tuberculosis | |
| addisons disease | ||
| addison's disease | ||
| adema | ||
| adema of lung & heart disease | ||
| adenitis | ||
| advanced bright's | ||
| aedema gottidis | ||
| 3 | aedema of lungs | |
| aedemia | ||
| aeute nephritis | ||
| affection of brain | ||
| 5 | ague | |
| albumanic | ||
| alcholism | ||
| alcohilic stimulant | ||
| alcohol poisoning | ||
| alcohol toxemia | ||
| alcoholic neuritis | ||
| 3 | alcoholism | |
| alectesis | ||
| alectises | ||
| 14 | amputation | |
| amputation; arm taken off by cars. | ||
| amputation; falling under cars | ||
| 10 | anemia | |
| anemia & general debility | ||
| anemia pectoris - acute indigestion | ||
| aneurysm | ||
| aneurysm of aorta | ||
| angina pectoria | ||
| 9 | angina pectoris | |
| anthososilicoies | ||
| anthra sclerosis | ||
| anthracosis | ||
| anthrasicicosis | ||
| anthristosis | ||
| anthro sclerosis | ||
| anthrocosis | ||
| antra coliscosis | ||
| aoatetis | ||
| aorta regurgitation | ||
| aortic aneurism | ||
| aortic insufficiencies | ||
| aortic insufficiency | ||
| aortic obstruction | ||
| 3 | aortic regurgitation | |
| 2 | apendicitis | |
| apoplegy | ||
| apoplely | ||
| apopletic fits | ||
| apoplexa | ||
| 124 | apoplexy | |
| apoplexy & dropsy | ||
| apoplexy & paralysis | ||
| apoplexy and paralysis | ||
| 12 | appendicitis | |
| appoplexy | ||
| appoplictic stroke | ||
| apuosis | ||
| arrest. | ||
| arsenic poison | ||
| artereo sclerosis | ||
| arteri sclerotic heart | ||
| arteria selerocis | ||
| 8 | arterial sclerosis | |
| arterial sclerosis heart disease | ||
| arterial sclerotic heart disease | ||
| arterio claratic heart disease | ||
| arterio occlusion | ||
| 2 | arterio schlerosis | |
| arterio schlerosis heart disease | ||
| arterio scleroris | ||
| 28 | arterio sclerosis | |
| 3 | arterio sclerosis heart failure | |
| arterio sclerosos | ||
| arterio sclorosis | ||
| 10 | arteriosclerosis | |
| arteriosclerosis heart | ||
| arteriosclerosis heart failure | ||
| arteriosclerotic heart | ||
| arteriosclerotic heart disease | ||
| 2 | artero sclerosis | |
| artery selerocis | ||
| artherio sclerosis | ||
| arthritis deformities | ||
| arthrosclerosis | ||
| 2 | ascuhd | |
| ascvd | ||
| ascvhd | ||
| ashd | ||
| ashd (heart disease) | ||
| ashma | ||
| 15 | asphyxia | |
| asphyxiated by gas | ||
| 5 | asphyxiation | |
| aspiration pneumonia | ||
| aspirin poisoning | ||
| assault | ||
| asthema | ||
| 2 | asthemia | |
| 67 | asthma | |
| 2 | asthma & dropsy | |
| asthma and fits | ||
| asthma and heart disease | ||
| asthma and stomach trouble | ||
| asthma cardiac | ||
| asthma; general debility | ||
| ataxia | ||
| atedectosis | ||
| 2 | atelactasis | |
| atelactasis pulmonalis | ||
| atelectasis | ||
| atelectasis pulmonalis | ||
| 2 | atelectosis | |
| atelectosis pulmonosis | ||
| atelectrosis | ||
| ateledosis | ||
| ateloctysis of left lung | ||
| atelsctrosis | ||
| 2 | aterio selerosis | |
| athero sclerosis | ||
| athesia ani vesicalis | ||
| atolectrosis | ||
| atrophy | ||
| atrophy of liver | ||
| 13 | auto accident | |
| auto accident - fractured skull | ||
| autopsy requested | ||
| axlectulis | ||
| azotemia | ||
| 3 | baby sore mouth | |
| bilateral p | ||
| bilious | ||
| 2 | bilious colic | |
| 6 | bilious fever | |
| bilious fever & ague | ||
| bilious intermittent fever | ||
| biliousness | ||
| billious colic | ||
| 2 | billious fever | |
| bite of a dog | ||
| 2 | black fever | |
| blast/explosion | ||
| 2 | bled to death | |
| bleeding | ||
| blood aspiration trachea | ||
| 5 | blood poison | |
| blood poison and childbirth | ||
| blood poison from popping a pimple with a pin | ||
| 9 | blood poisoning | |
| blood poisonmiong | ||
| body found in river | ||
| boiler explosion | ||
| born dead | ||
| 7 | bowel complaint | |
| bowel complications | ||
| 4 | bowel obstruction | |
| 4 | bowel trouble | |
| 3 | brain abscess | |
| brain affliction | ||
| brain croup | ||
| 8 | brain disease | |
| brain embolism | ||
| 59 | brain fever | |
| brain fever & inflamation of bowels | ||
| 3 | brain trouble | |
| 4 | brain tumor | |
| brancho pneumonia | ||
| 2 | breast cancer | |
| bright disease | ||
| 55 | brights disease | |
| 29 | bright's disease | |
| brights disease - heart trouble | ||
| brights disease & pneumonia | ||
| brights disease (kidneys) | ||
| 2 | bright's disease of kidneys | |
| brights disease: apoplexy | ||
| brobchitis | ||
| brochal catarrh | ||
| 6 | broken back | |
| broken hip | ||
| broken leg and complications | ||
| 2 | broken neck | |
| broken neck; accident | ||
| bron?? pneumonia | ||
| 3 | bronchial asthma | |
| 25 | bronchial pneumonia | |
| bronchio asthma | ||
| 5 | bronchio pneumonia | |
| bronchio pneumonia - influenza | ||
| 5 | bronchio-pneumonia | |
| 97 | bronchitis | |
| bronchitis & croup | ||
| 2 | bronchitis & old age | |
| bronchitis and bowel trouble | ||
| bronchitis pneumonia | ||
| bronchitis whooping cought | ||
| broncho infection disease | ||
| broncho pneumoni | ||
| 80 | broncho pneumonia | |
| broncho pneumonia following measles | ||
| 35 | broncho-pneumonia | |
| bronco pneumonia | ||
| brunt | ||
| 3 | bullet wound | |
| bullet wound of chest | ||
| buried alive in sand while making a tunnel with his companions. | ||
| buried with mother ellen | ||
| burn | ||
| 17 | burned | |
| burned at mines , by explosion of gas at wyoming colliery | ||
| burned at sickler's fertilizing plant | ||
| burned by gas | ||
| burned by gas in mines | ||
| burned by stove cleaning polish explosion | ||
| burned in accident | ||
| burned in mine | ||
| 13 | burned in mines | |
| 2 | burned in prospect shaft | |
| burned in stanton mines | ||
| burned in the mines | ||
| burned in the stanton shaft | ||
| 3 | burned to death | |
| burned to death by parlor matches | ||
| burned to death in blacksmith shop | ||
| burned with kerosene oil | ||
| burned with powder | ||
| 42 | burns | |
| burns about head | ||
| burns from hot ashes | ||
| burns from mine accident | ||
| 4 | burnt | |
| burus | ||
| by fall of roof in mines | ||
| c. s. meningytis | ||
| 116 | cancer | |
| 2 | cancer & old age | |
| cancer amputation | ||
| cancer in stomach | ||
| cancer in the womb | ||
| 2 | cancer of bowel | |
| cancer of bowels | ||
| cancer of esophagus | ||
| cancer of hand | ||
| 6 | cancer of liver | |
| cancer of mouth | ||
| cancer of pancreas | ||
| 3 | cancer of rectum | |
| 14 | cancer of stomach | |
| cancer of stomach and liver | ||
| cancer of throat | ||
| 3 | cancer of uterus | |
| 6 | cancer of womb | |
| cancer on liver | ||
| cancer on womb | ||
| cancer uterus | ||
| cancerous tumor | ||
| canker sore mouth | ||
| cankered throat | ||
| can't read the cause | ||
| capilary biomilitis | ||
| capilary bronchitis | ||
| 8 | capillary bronchitis | |
| cappilary bronchitis | ||
| car. of cervix | ||
| 2 | carbolic acid poisoning | |
| carbon monoxide poisoning | ||
| 2 | carbuncles | |
| carbunkle & fever | ||
| 2 | carcenoma | |
| carcenoma general | ||
| carcimona of pyforus | ||
| carcimona of rectum | ||
| carcimona stomach | ||
| 34 | carcinoma | |
| carcinoma left breast (breast cancer) | ||
| 2 | carcinoma of breast | |
| carcinoma of breasts | ||
| carcinoma of bronchus | ||
| carcinoma of cervix | ||
| carcinoma of duodenum | ||
| carcinoma of esophagus | ||
| carcinoma of forehead | ||
| carcinoma of glands | ||
| carcinoma of heart | ||
| carcinoma of intestines | ||
| 3 | carcinoma of jaw | |
| carcinoma of larynx | ||
| 3 | carcinoma of liver | |
| carcinoma of lung & breast | ||
| carcinoma of ovaries | ||
| carcinoma of ovary | ||
| carcinoma of pancreas | ||
| carcinoma of pancres | ||
| carcinoma of prostate | ||
| 3 | carcinoma of rectum | |
| 2 | carcinoma of right lung | |
| carcinoma of right womnary island | ||
| 13 | carcinoma of stomach | |
| carcinoma of the prostrate gland | ||
| carcinoma of uterius | ||
| 5 | carcinoma of uterus | |
| 2 | carcinoma prostate gland | |
| carcinoma sigmoid | ||
| carcinoma stomach | ||
| carcinoma upper gastral | ||
| carcoma of neck | ||
| cardia rine disease | ||
| 2 | cardiac | |
| cardiac arithmia | ||
| 9 | cardiac arrest | |
| cardiac arrhythmia | ||
| 5 | cardiac asthma | |
| cardiac convulsions | ||
| cardiac damage | ||
| 2 | cardiac decompensation | |
| 2 | cardiac decompression | |
| cardiac degeneration | ||
| 2 | cardiac dilatation | |
| cardiac dilatutions | ||
| 2 | cardiac dilitation | |
| 3 | cardiac disease | |
| 2 | cardiac dropsey | |
| 6 | cardiac dropsy | |
| cardiac dylation | ||
| cardiac embolism | ||
| 36 | cardiac failure | |
| cardiac hypertrophy | ||
| 2 | cardiac insufficiency | |
| cardiac insuffiency | ||
| 5 | cardiac paralysis | |
| cardiac renal | ||
| cardiac renal disease | ||
| cardiac respiratory failure | ||
| cardiac secumpution | ||
| cardiac syncope | ||
| cardiac valvular disease | ||
| cardio disease | ||
| cardio myopathy | ||
| 2 | cardio pulmonary arrest | |
| 4 | cardio renal | |
| cardio renal disease | ||
| 2 | cardio respiratory failure | |
| 3 | cardio vascular | |
| 4 | cardio vascular disease | |
| cardiopulmonary arrest | ||
| cardiovascular disease | ||
| 2 | carditis | |
| cariac failure | ||
| caries of spine | ||
| cat. pneumonia | ||
| catalase of stomach | ||
| 8 | catarrh | |
| catarrh of stomach | ||
| 3 | catarrhal pneumonia | |
| 2 | catherine kechline & louisa bevan on same line of lot record | |
| caught in machinery | ||
| 2 | cause not given | |
| cause unknown by person who applied for burial permit | ||
| caused by drinking alcohol | ||
| cba | ||
| cellulitic pelumn | ||
| 2 | cellulitis | |
| cellultiis | ||
| ceptic degeneration of uterus | ||
| 4 | cerebal hemorrhage | |
| cerebis - spinal syphylis | ||
| cerebral ??something | ||
| cerebral anemia | ||
| 8 | cerebral apoplexy | |
| cerebral applexy | ||
| cerebral arteriosclerosis | ||
| 3 | cerebral compression | |
| cerebral congestion | ||
| cerebral disability | ||
| 9 | cerebral embolism | |
| cerebral embolysm | ||
| cerebral hemmerhage | ||
| 2 | cerebral hemmorage | |
| 3 | cerebral hemmorhage | |
| cerebral hemmorrhage | ||
| cerebral hemorage | ||
| cerebral hemorhage | ||
| cerebral hemorrage | ||
| 100 | cerebral hemorrhage | |
| cerebral hemorrhage - from accidental fall | ||
| cerebral hyperaemia | ||
| cerebral injuries | ||
| 9 | cerebral meningitis | |
| cerebral spinal meningitis | ||
| 7 | cerebral thrombosis | |
| cerebral tumor | ||
| cerebral valvular disease | ||
| 2 | cerebral vascular accident | |
| cerebral vascular disease | ||
| cerebral vascular thrombosis | ||
| cerebritia | ||
| cerebro meningitis | ||
| 4 | cerebro spinal meningitis | |
| cerebro spinal syphilis | ||
| cerebro-spinal meningitis | ||
| 4 | cerebrovascular disease | |
| cerebrovascular occlusion | ||
| cerebutis | ||
| cetebral anaemia | ||
| ch. myocarditis | ||
| ch. pul. antheaposis | ||
| change of life | ||
| chemia | ||
| 3 | chicken pox | |
| child bed fever | ||
| 10 | child birth | |
| child birth & tuyphoid pneumonia | ||
| childbed | ||
| 34 | childbirth | |
| childs sore mouth | ||
| chills | ||
| 2 | chills, infl. | |
| choera morbus | ||
| choked on piece of meat | ||
| 2 | choking | |
| 3 | chol. inf. | |
| choleceatitis | ||
| 2 | cholecystitis | |
| 6 | cholera | |
| 2 | cholera imorbus | |
| 14 | cholera infantium | |
| cholera infantm | ||
| 700 | cholera infantum | |
| cholera infantum & measles | ||
| cholera infantum & pneumonia | ||
| 2 | cholera infanum | |
| 2 | cholera infanutm | |
| cholera infection | ||
| cholera morbers | ||
| cholera morbis | ||
| 2 | cholera morbitus | |
| 25 | cholera morbus | |
| cholera murbus | ||
| cholera pneumonia | ||
| choleramorbus | ||
| choleva morbus | ||
| 3 | cholic | |
| chorea | ||
| chr. alcoholism - heart failure | ||
| 2 | chr. myocarditis | |
| chronic | ||
| chronic alcoholism | ||
| chronic anthia silicous | ||
| 2 | chronic asthma | |
| chronic atrophy | ||
| chronic brain disease | ||
| chronic brights disease | ||
| chronic bright's disease | ||
| 4 | chronic bronchitis | |
| chronic cardiac disease | ||
| chronic cysititis | ||
| chronic cystitis | ||
| 13 | chronic diarrhea | |
| chronic diarrhoea | ||
| chronic dyspepsia | ||
| chronic elino. | ||
| 6 | chronic endocarditis | |
| 3 | chronic enteritis | |
| chronic gastritis | ||
| chronic heart | ||
| 2 | chronic heart disease | |
| chronic heart trouble | ||
| chronic hypertensean | ||
| chronic inflamation of bowels | ||
| chronic inflamation of stomach | ||
| chronic intestinal catarrh | ||
| chronic laryngitis | ||
| chronic mastoiditis | ||
| chronic mylitis | ||
| chronic myocardia | ||
| 29 | chronic myocarditis | |
| chronic n?phi?tis | ||
| 30 | chronic nephritis | |
| chronic omyocarditis - apoplexy | ||
| chronic passive congestion | ||
| chronic pluericy | ||
| chronic pulmonary disease | ||
| chronic pulmonary tuberculosis | ||
| chronic rheumatism | ||
| chronis pulmonary disease | ||
| cinsumption | ||
| cirorsis of liver | ||
| cirrhosis | ||
| cirrhosis liver | ||
| 23 | cirrhosis of liver | |
| 5 | cirrhosis of the liver | |
| cnsumption | ||
| cnvulsions | ||
| coasting accident on new year's day | ||
| cold | ||
| cold & rheumatism | ||
| cold from bathing | ||
| 2 | cold on lungs | |
| cold settled on lungs | ||
| 3 | colic | |
| 3 | colitis | |
| collapse of heart | ||
| colored: died from stab wounds | ||
| complete facture skull | ||
| complication of diseases | ||
| complication of bowels | ||
| 16 | complication of diseases | |
| 86 | complications | |
| complications - embolism | ||
| complications following pneumonia | ||
| complications from intestinal obstruction | ||
| complications of diseases void ? | ||
| 3 | complications of disease | |
| complications post mortem | ||
| complications with ? | ||
| complications; acute indigestion | ||
| 3 | compression of brain | |
| concussion & hemorrhage | ||
| concussion fo brain | ||
| 61 | confinement | |
| confinement fever | ||
| confinment | ||
| congenital asthma | ||
| congenital debility | ||
| congenital heart defect | ||
| congenital heart disease | ||
| congenital luis | ||
| congenital malformation | ||
| congenital stricture | ||
| congested heart failure | ||
| congested u of a failure | ||
| congestiion of lungs | ||
| 2 | congestion of bowels | |
| 27 | congestion of brain | |
| congestion of kidneys | ||
| 2 | congestion of liver | |
| 2 | congestion of lung | |
| 32 | congestion of lungs | |
| congestion of lungs and meningitis | ||
| 2 | congestion of stomach | |
| 3 | congestion of the brain | |
| 2 | congestive chills | |
| 9 | congestive heart failure | |
| congestive pneumonia | ||
| congestrual heart failure | ||
| conggestion of lungs | ||
| conmvulsions | ||
| constipation | ||
| 467 | consumption | |
| consumption & asthma | ||
| consumption & heart disease | ||
| consumption and bright's disease | ||
| consumption convulsions | ||
| 12 | consumption of bowels | |
| consumption of brain | ||
| 4 | consumption of lungs | |
| consumption of stomach | ||
| consumption of the bowels | ||
| consumption of the lungs | ||
| consumptionm | ||
| convulsion | ||
| convulsion fits | ||
| convulsiona | ||
| 425 | convulsions | |
| convulsions & fits | ||
| convulsions caused by burn? | ||
| convulsions following whooping cough | ||
| convulsions with measles | ||
| convulsive chills | ||
| convulsive fits | ||
| convultions | ||
| convultions ? | ||
| convulusions | ||
| copd | ||
| cor. patmorale | ||
| cor. thrombosis | ||
| 2 | coronary | |
| coronary acclusion | ||
| 2 | coronary artery disease | |
| coronary artery occlusion | ||
| 2 | coronary embolism | |
| coronary myocarditis | ||
| 70 | coronary occlusion | |
| coronary oculsion | ||
| coronary sclerosis | ||
| 25 | coronary thrombosis | |
| coroners office | ||
| cou. of brain | ||
| could not tell the cause | ||
| cousetonic? | ||
| 28 | cramps | |
| cramps and lockjaw | ||
| cramps in stomach | ||
| cronic bronchitis | ||
| cronic endocarditis | ||
| cronic gastritis | ||
| 9 | cronic myocarditis | |
| 3 | cronic nephritis | |
| 219 | croup | |
| croup & congestion of lungs | ||
| 14 | croup & diphtheria | |
| croup & fits | ||
| 2 | croup & inflamation of lungs | |
| croup & inflammation of lungs | ||
| croup and defiletheria | ||
| croup following measles | ||
| croup, diptheria | ||
| croupous pneumonia | ||
| croupus pneumonia | ||
| crushed by fall of rock | ||
| crushed by fan dropping on him in mines | ||
| crushed pelvis | ||
| ct. of nosophargr?? | ||
| cut while shaving | ||
| 4 | cutting teeth | |
| 2 | cva | |
| 10 | cyanosis | |
| cyclone | ||
| cyclone accident | ||
| cyonosis | ||
| cystis with senectis | ||
| 4 | cystitis | |
| dead 2 weeks before birth. | ||
| 10 | dead born | |
| deadborn | ||
| death caused by eating lye | ||
| death caused by gun shot. | ||
| death during delivery | ||
| 19 | debility | |
| decapitated by cars while working in franklin colliery | ||
| 4 | decline | |
| decline (old age) | ||
| dehydration | ||
| 3 | delerium tremens | |
| delerium tremons | ||
| dementia | ||
| demtia | ||
| 29 | diabetes | |
| diabetes (2nd word unreadable) | ||
| diabetes gangrene | ||
| diabetes meelitis | ||
| diabetes melitis | ||
| 7 | diabetes mellitis | |
| 3 | diabetes mellitus | |
| diabetes millitus | ||
| 2 | diabetic coma | |
| diabetic gangrene | ||
| diabetic mellitis | ||
| 2 | diabetis | |
| diarhoea | ||
| diarhora | ||
| 64 | diarrhea | |
| diarrhea & ague | ||
| diarrhea & croup | ||
| diarrhea & teething | ||
| 2 | diarrhoea | |
| diarrhora | ||
| diarrhorea | ||
| dibility | ||
| 2 | did not know | |
| died 8 wks. after surgery for an intestinal obstruction | ||
| died after a short illness | ||
| died after an operation; 3rd child of abraham broody to die within 5 months | ||
| died at city hospital | ||
| died at hospital | ||
| died at hospital of fits | ||
| died at the hospital | ||
| died from a fall | ||
| died from injuries rec'd in laurel run colliery accident on 27 jul 1906 | ||
| died from injuries received in laurel run colliery accident on 27 jul 1906 | ||
| 4 | died from injuries received in mines | |
| died from injuries received. | ||
| died in childbirth | ||
| died in harrison co., oh | ||
| died in hospital | ||
| died in south carolina | ||
| died in the hospital | ||
| 2 | died in utero | |
| died same day | ||
| died suddenly of heart disease | ||
| diffi ??? | ||
| difficult labor | ||
| 2 | dilatation of heart | |
| dilatation of the heart | ||
| dilated heart | ||
| 3 | dilation of heart | |
| 3 | dilitation of heart | |
| dimentia | ||
| dinerrhora | ||
| diph | ||
| dipheria | ||
| 2 | diphthemonia | |
| diphthera | ||
| diphthereia | ||
| 7 | diphtheretic croup | |
| diphtheretic paralysis | ||
| 536 | diphtheria | |
| diphtheria & blood poisoning | ||
| diphtheria & cholera infantum | ||
| 24 | diphtheria & croup | |
| diphtheria & dropsy | ||
| 2 | diphtheria & membranous croup | |
| 7 | diphtheria & scarlet fever | |
| diphtheria & scarletina | ||
| 6 | diphtheria and croup | |
| diphtheria and membranous croup | ||
| diphtheria and scarletina | ||
| diphtheria and weakness | ||
| 2 | diphtheria croup | |
| 3 | diphtheriatic croup | |
| diphtheric croup | ||
| 6 | diphtheritic croup | |
| diptheratic croup | ||
| 61 | diptheria | |
| 2 | diptheria & croup | |
| diptheria & scarlet fever | ||
| 2 | diptheria and croup | |
| 4 | diptheria croup | |
| diptheria laryngitis | ||
| diptheria scarlet fever | ||
| diptheriatic laryngitis | ||
| diptheric croup | ||
| diptherite shotriatitis | ||
| diptheritic croup | ||
| dirrohea | ||
| disease not known | ||
| disease of bowels | ||
| disease of kidneys | ||
| 2 | disease of liver | |
| 2 | disease of spine | |
| disease of womb | ||
| disease organite | ||
| dislocation of hip | ||
| dislocation of neck by hanging | ||
| disorder of brain | ||
| dopsy of brain | ||
| double lobar pneumonia | ||
| dragged by a mule | ||
| 5 | dropsey | |
| 179 | dropsy | |
| dropsy & asthma | ||
| dropsy & bronchitis | ||
| dropsy & confinement | ||
| dropsy & heaart disease | ||
| 3 | dropsy & heart disease | |
| dropsy & heart failure | ||
| dropsy & inflamation of lungs | ||
| dropsy & old age | ||
| dropsy & paralysis | ||
| dropsy and heart disease | ||
| dropsy and senility | ||
| 3 | dropsy of brain | |
| 4 | dropsy of heart | |
| dropsy of the heart | ||
| dropsy of the lungs | ||
| 2 | dropsy on brain | |
| dropsyconsumption | ||
| drosey | ||
| drowing | ||
| 36 | drowned | |
| drowned at blackman mines | ||
| drowned at retreat state hospital | ||
| drowned by his mother, who commited suicide | ||
| drowned in baltimore dam | ||
| 3 | drowned in canal | |
| drowned in canals | ||
| 2 | drowned in river | |
| drowned in sump in buttonwood | ||
| drowned in susquehanna river | ||
| "drowned: at first unknown, but now presumed to be that of john stephens, a | ||
| polander or hungarian from the poor district." | ||
| 24 | drowning | |
| drowning accident | ||
| drowning in the river | ||
| 2 | drug overdose | |
| drunkenness | ||
| dyotheria croup | ||
| 2 | dyphtheria | |
| dyptheria | ||
| 12 | dysentary | |
| 89 | dysentery | |
| dysentery & typhoid fever | ||
| 3 | dysentry | |
| 2 | dyspepsia | |
| dystentery | ||
| 9 | eclampsia | |
| ectopic pregnancy | ||
| 9 | edema of lungs | |
| effects of a fall | ||
| effects of accident in mine | ||
| electruction | ||
| elileptic fits | ||
| emaciation | ||
| embolis of brain | ||
| 13 | embolism | |
| embolism of brain | ||
| 10 | emphysema | |
| empyema | ||
| empyencg | ||
| emypynecia | ||
| encapaloclel | ||
| encepalitis lethargica | ||
| encephalitis | ||
| encephalomalosis, left | ||
| 3 | endo carditis | |
| endo myocarditis | ||
| 16 | endocarditis | |
| enlarged heart disease | ||
| enlarged liver | ||
| enlarged liver & spleen | ||
| enlargement of brain | ||
| enlargement of heart | ||
| 3 | enlargement of liver | |
| enlargement of the liver | ||
| 20 | enteritis | |
| 34 | entero colitis | |
| enteron colitis | ||
| entertis | ||
| entis colitis | ||
| entritis | ||
| 8 | entro colitis | |
| entro-colitis | ||
| enysipelas | ||
| epethetonia | ||
| 4 | epilepsy | |
| epilepsy & dropsy | ||
| epileptic convulsions | ||
| epileptic convuslion | ||
| eremia | ||
| erisypilas | ||
| ersipelas | ||
| eryciphelas | ||
| erycipilas | ||
| 2 | erycypilis | |
| erysepelas | ||
| 18 | erysipelas | |
| erysipelas (aka st. anthony's fire) | ||
| 2 | erysipelas from vaccination | |
| 2 | erysiphelas | |
| erysiphelas from vaccination | ||
| 2 | erysipilas | |
| erysiplas | ||
| erysyphelas | ||
| eterus colitis | ||
| euleritis | ||
| euremia | ||
| eurpynemia | ||
| 2 | euteritis | |
| 8 | eutero colitis | |
| exapthalmic goiter | ||
| 8 | exhaustion | |
| exhaustion - old age | ||
| exhaustion during labor | ||
| explosion | ||
| explosion accident in mines | ||
| 4 | explosion in mines | |
| 3 | explosion of gas | |
| 3 | exposure | |
| exsanguination | ||
| extensive burns | ||
| exzemia inflamation of cervical glands | ||
| fainting | ||
| fall | ||
| fall at work in mines | ||
| fall down a shaft | ||
| fall from a breaker | ||
| fall from wagon | ||
| fall in mines | ||
| fall of mines | ||
| 2 | fall of rock | |
| falling down shaft | ||
| falling in sewer trench | ||
| 3 | fatty degeneration | |
| 2 | fatty heart | |
| fatty inflamation of the heart | ||
| fecal impaction | ||
| fell dead from heart disease | ||
| fell down bank & broke his neck | ||
| fell down mine shaft at d.l.& w. | ||
| 6 | fell down shaft | |
| fell down stairs | ||
| fell down stairs of baptist church | ||
| fell down step | ||
| fell down steps | ||
| fell from car | ||
| fell in shaft | ||
| fell on sidewalk | ||
| fell through bridge | ||
| fell under wheels of d&h freight train while jumping off | ||
| female complaint | ||
| feveer & ague | ||
| 33 | fever | |
| fever & ague | ||
| fever; died at city hospital | ||
| fibroid phthisis | ||
| fibroid tuberculosis | ||
| fibrosis | ||
| 266 | fits | |
| 2 | fits & inflamation | |
| fits & influenza | ||
| fits & weakness | ||
| fits, cramps | ||
| flu | ||
| 2 | flu - pneumonia | |
| foot cut off by cars | ||
| found dead | ||
| found dead in river | ||
| found dead, cause unknown | ||
| found drowned in river | ||
| found floating in susquehanna river | ||
| found in old grave yard | ||
| found in river | ||
| found in river with throat cut | ||
| found on culm bank | ||
| found on empire culm bank | ||
| foundling from infants home | ||
| fracture of back | ||
| fracture of base of skull | ||
| fracture of hip | ||
| fracture of pelvis | ||
| fracture of skull | ||
| 2 | fracture of spine | |
| fracture of vertebra | ||
| fracture of vertebrae | ||
| fracture pelvis | ||
| fracture right scapula | ||
| 2 | fracture skull | |
| fractured base of skull | ||
| fractured femur | ||
| 2 | fractured hip | |
| fractured pelvis | ||
| fractured pelvis; accident at work | ||
| fractured ribs | ||
| 23 | fractured skull | |
| fractured skull & cancer | ||
| fractured skull due to tornado. daughter mary may have survived. | ||
| fractured skull due to tornado. father james survived. | ||
| fractured skull from a fall from telephone pole at work, 26 aug 1915. | ||
| fractured skull from being hit with a falling tree | ||
| fractured skull from falling 30 feet from a roof, while hanging laundry | ||
| fractured skull, struck by train | ||
| fractured spine | ||
| fractured vertebra | ||
| fractured vertebrae | ||
| fractured vertibrae | ||
| fractures and lacerated scalp | ||
| fractures of legs | ||
| frightened to death | ||
| from fall | ||
| from injuries received | ||
| from injuries received from a 17 oct 1916 automobile accident. | ||
| 5 | from injuries received in mines | |
| from injurries doing acrobatic stunts on an iron bar at meade st. playground. | ||
| 2 | frozen | |
| frozen dead | ||
| frozen on wilkes-barre mountain | ||
| fuerrcular menngitis | ||
| 2 | fusion of brain | |
| g. i. hemorrhage | ||
| gall stone surgery and weak heart | ||
| gall stones | ||
| gallstone colic - cronic intestial neph. | ||
| 2 | gallstones | |
| gangreen of lung | ||
| 4 | gangrene | |
| gangrene stomatitis | ||
| gas asphyxiation - suicide | ||
| gas poisoning | ||
| 2 | gastric cancer | |
| gastric carcenoma | ||
| 2 | gastric carcinoma | |
| 2 | gastric enteritis | |
| 3 | gastric hemorrhage | |
| 2 | gastric ulcer | |
| 3 | gastritis | |
| 23 | gastro enteritis | |
| gastro enteritis from ingesting poisoned candy given by a stranger | ||
| gastro entero colitis | ||
| gastro entritis | ||
| gastro intestinal hemorrhage | ||
| 2 | gastro uteral colitis | |
| 4 | gastroenteritis | |
| 4 | gastro-enteritis | |
| gathering in throat | ||
| gen debility | ||
| gen paralysis | ||
| general asthemia | ||
| 136 | general debility | |
| general debility & cardiac dilation | ||
| general debility and premature birth | ||
| general debility from gripp | ||
| 3 | general debiliy | |
| general deformity | ||
| 2 | general delility | |
| general dibility | ||
| 5 | general disability | |
| general paresis | ||
| general peritonitis | ||
| general prostration | ||
| general senility | ||
| general sypticemia | ||
| 3 | general tuberculosis | |
| general weakness | ||
| generalized anterio sclerosis | ||
| generlised sclerosis | ||
| gereral paresis | ||
| glomerulopathies | ||
| goitre toxemia | ||
| granular abscess | ||
| gravel | ||
| gripp and pneumonia | ||
| 6 | grippe | |
| group of diseases | ||
| 2 | gun shot wound | |
| gun shot wound by tony vergari | ||
| haematuria | ||
| haemofitysis | ||
| hanged in w-b for killing cameron cool of w. pittston | ||
| hanging | ||
| 2 | hanging by prison | |
| hardening of arteries | ||
| hardening of kidneys | ||
| hardening of the artery of the heart | ||
| 2 | head injuries | |
| 5 | heart | |
| 7 | heart attack | |
| 3 | heart clot | |
| heart desease | ||
| 265 | heart disease | |
| heart disease - arterio?l?rtic | ||
| heart disease & tumor | ||
| heart disease, scarlet fever | ||
| heart disease; found dead in draywagon. | ||
| heart diseasse | ||
| 101 | heart failure | |
| heart failure - broncho pneumonia | ||
| heart failure & dropsy | ||
| heart failure after diphetria | ||
| heart failure due to arterial sclerotic | ||
| heart scrafula | ||
| 24 | heart trouble | |
| heart trouble - pneumonia | ||
| heart trouble (didn't know exactly) | ||
| heart trouble and miner asthma | ||
| heart weakness | ||
| hearth failure | ||
| heat | ||
| 2 | heat exhaustion | |
| heat stroke | ||
| heat stroke & heart disease | ||
| heights; date: 1905-03-01; paper: wilkes-barre times | ||
| hemiplegia | ||
| hemirrhagia | ||
| hemmorage | ||
| hemmorage brain | ||
| hemmorage caused by stabbing: ruled murder | ||
| hemmorrhage caused by bullet wound | ||
| hemophlegia | ||
| 2 | hemoplegia | |
| hemorage | ||
| hemorahage | ||
| hemorhage of the lungs | ||
| hemorhagia cystitio | ||
| 39 | hemorrhage | |
| hemorrhage & stomach trouble | ||
| hemorrhage of bowels | ||
| 7 | hemorrhage of lungs | |
| 2 | hemorrhage of stomach | |
| hemorrhagic colitis | ||
| hemorrrhage of lung | ||
| hemorrrhage of spinal cord | ||
| hemplaza | ||
| hemylegia / r side | ||
| henorrhage | ||
| hepatic c. | ||
| hepatic cirrhosis | ||
| hepatic failure | ||
| hepotics failure | ||
| hereditary disease | ||
| 3 | hernia | |
| herniated umbilical | ||
| hiccoughs | ||
| hip disease | ||
| hipatee cirrhosis of liver | ||
| hippocratic pneumonia | ||
| hiptoma primary | ||
| hirschopring | ||
| hodgkins disease | ||
| hodgkins lymphoma | ||
| homorrhage | ||
| horde fever | ||
| 10 | hurt in mines | |
| hurt on railroad | ||
| hurt on railroad [died from injuries] | ||
| hydatios of liver | ||
| hydrated cyst | ||
| hydro cephilis | ||
| hydrocephalis | ||
| hydrocephalus | ||
| hydrocephalus (water on the brain) | ||
| hydrocephelas | ||
| hydrocephilus | ||
| hydrocephlus | ||
| hyperneuresis | ||
| 6 | hypertension | |
| hypertensive arteriosclerosis | ||
| hypertensive cardio-? | ||
| 2 | hypertensive encephalopathy | |
| hypertensive vascular heart disease | ||
| hyperthemia | ||
| hyperthoses | ||
| hypertrophy cirrhosis of liver | ||
| hypocephalus | ||
| hypoglycemic coma | ||
| 2 | hypostatic pneumonia | |
| hysteria | ||
| ibabition | ||
| icterus menbrane | ||
| icterus neonatalorium (jaundice) | ||
| ilea colitis | ||
| 17 | ileo colitis | |
| ileocolitis | ||
| 2 | ileo-colitis | |
| ilio colitis | ||
| illeus | ||
| 2 | imflamation of bowels | |
| immaturity | ||
| in hospital | ||
| inainition | ||
| inanitian | ||
| inanitiation | ||
| 53 | inanition | |
| 2 | inantion | |
| inantion plus lupus | ||
| 2 | inauition | |
| 5 | indigestion | |
| inf of bowels | ||
| inf of lungs | ||
| inf. & typhoid fever | ||
| 2 | inf. of bowel | |
| 4 | inf. of bowels | |
| 11 | inf. of lungs | |
| infant died at infants' home | ||
| 4 | infantile convulsions | |
| infantile diarrhea | ||
| infantile paralysis | ||
| infantils meningitis | ||
| infe. rheumatism | ||
| infection of bladder | ||
| infection of bowells | ||
| infection of brain | ||
| infection of kidney | ||
| 3 | infection of lungs | |
| infestation | ||
| 12 | inflamation | |
| inflamation & croup | ||
| inflamation & fits | ||
| inflamation caused by sprained leg | ||
| inflamation in head | ||
| 18 | inflamation of bowel | |
| 104 | inflamation of bowels | |
| inflamation of bowels & cutting teeth | ||
| inflamation of bowels & dysentery | ||
| inflamation of bowels & pleurosy | ||
| inflamation of bowels & teething | ||
| 25 | inflamation of brain | |
| inflamation of intestines | ||
| 2 | inflamation of kidneys | |
| inflamation of kungs | ||
| inflamation of liver | ||
| 408 | inflamation of lungs | |
| inflamation of lungs & bronchitis | ||
| inflamation of lungs & whooping cough | ||
| 2 | inflamation of lungs & bowels | |
| inflamation of lungs & consumption | ||
| inflamation of lungs & convulsions | ||
| inflamation of lungs & dysentery | ||
| inflamation of lungs & liver | ||
| inflamation of lungs & whooping cough | ||
| inflamation of lungs and bowels | ||
| inflamation of lungs and brain | ||
| inflamation of lungs and old age | ||
| inflamation of lungs, diptheria | ||
| 7 | inflamation of stomach | |
| inflamation of the bladder | ||
| 2 | inflamation of the bowels | |
| 8 | inflamation of the brain | |
| inflamation of the groins | ||
| inflamation of the kidney | ||
| inflamation of womb | ||
| inflamation on lungs | ||
| inflamatory rheumatism | ||
| inflamitory rheumatism | ||
| inflammation bowels | ||
| 11 | inflammation of bowels | |
| 5 | inflammation of brain | |
| inflammation of kidneys | ||
| 14 | inflammation of lungs | |
| inflammation of lungs & malaria | ||
| inflammatory diarrhea | ||
| inflammatory rhuematism | ||
| 37 | influenza | |
| influenza & pneumonia | ||
| influenza and croup | ||
| 3 | influenza and pneumonia | |
| influenza complications | ||
| 3 | influenza pneumonia | |
| injured at oakwood mines | ||
| injured by explosion | ||
| injured by horse | ||
| injured by street car | ||
| injured falling from wagon | ||
| injured in a fight | ||
| injured in mine | ||
| 4 | injured in mines | |
| injured in mines; died from effects | ||
| injured in steinheur planing mills | ||
| injured in the mines | ||
| injured on cars | ||
| 3 | injured on railroad | |
| injuried in mines | ||
| 6 | injuries | |
| 2 | injuries from cave in | |
| injuries from fall | ||
| injuries from falling down stairs | ||
| injuries in mines | ||
| 2 | injuries received from a fall | |
| injuries received from assault | ||
| injuries received in auto accident | ||
| injuries received in mine | ||
| injuries received in mines | ||
| injuries received in the mines | ||
| injuries to bus accident | ||
| injurues | ||
| injury at birth | ||
| injury of back and pelvis | ||
| injury of internal organs | ||
| injury received from fall | ||
| 2 | insane | |
| 3 | insanity | |
| insanity/apoplexy (died at retreat) | ||
| insolation | ||
| insufficient circulation | ||
| int. hemorrhage | ||
| inter cranial hemorrhage | ||
| 5 | intermittent fever | |
| internal cancer | ||
| internal cancer supposed | ||
| internal hem. | ||
| internal hemorage | ||
| 3 | internal hemorrhage | |
| 2 | internal injuries | |
| internal injuries - colliery accident | ||
| internal injuries & cramps | ||
| internal injuries caused by suicide attempt | ||
| internal strain | ||
| interstitial nephritis | ||
| intestinal catanah | ||
| intestinal catarrh | ||
| 3 | intestinal hemorrhage | |
| 5 | intestinal nephritis | |
| 17 | intestinal obstruction | |
| intestinal obstructions | ||
| intestinal paralysis | ||
| intestinal toxemia | ||
| intra hemorrhage | ||
| intuerruption of bowel | ||
| inuntion | ||
| inward convulsions | ||
| 6 | inward fits | |
| inward spasms | ||
| 12 | jaundice | |
| job accident, buried by sand | ||
| 2 | juliet catlin & james keithline on same line of lot record | |
| kicked by a cow; fracture of left tibia | ||
| kicked by a horse | ||
| kicked by a horse; fractured skull | ||
| 23 | kidney disease | |
| kidney disease & dropsy of brain | ||
| kidney disease & summer complaint | ||
| kidney infection | ||
| 3 | kidney trouble | |
| kidney, liver and heart disease | ||
| 5 | killed | |
| killed at [?] slope no.3, runaway car | ||
| killed at dorrance shaft | ||
| killed at empire mines | ||
| killed at hartford breaker | ||
| 2 | killed at parsons | |
| 2 | killed at pittston | |
| killed at port bowkley | ||
| killed by a fall | ||
| killed by a mule in the mines | ||
| killed by accident | ||
| killed by an axe. | ||
| killed by an ice slide in canada | ||
| killed by being run over | ||
| killed by car | ||
| killed by carriage in shaft | ||
| 22 | killed by cars | |
| killed by cars - fall of top coal | ||
| killed by cars at ?& h breaker, mill creek | ||
| killed by cars at franklin mines | ||
| killed by coal car | ||
| killed by d&h passenger train at scott st. crossing. | ||
| killed by electric car | ||
| killed by electric cars | ||
| killed by explosion | ||
| killed by explosion of mine gas | ||
| killed by fall of coal | ||
| killed by fall of rock | ||
| killed by fall of rock in mines | ||
| killed by fall of rock. | ||
| killed by fall of stone in marble yard | ||
| killed by fall off top coal | ||
| killed by falling | ||
| killed by falling down shaft | ||
| killed by falling on icy steps | ||
| killed by falling timber | ||
| killed by gas | ||
| killed by mule | ||
| killed by piece of coal from blast | ||
| killed by premature explosion | ||
| killed by railroad train | ||
| killed by rr cars (not taken) | ||
| killed by street car | ||
| 7 | killed by the cars | |
| 2 | killed by train | |
| killed by train of cars | ||
| killed by wagon | ||
| killed in a culm bank fire | ||
| killed in black diamond mine | ||
| 2 | killed in breaker | |
| killed in broom factory | ||
| killed in coal breaker | ||
| killed in daimond breaker | ||
| killed in engine house | ||
| killed in fight | ||
| killed in franklin coal mine by fall of top rock | ||
| killed in franklin colliery | ||
| killed in johnstown | ||
| killed in mine accident | ||
| 90 | killed in mines | |
| killed in mines: fall of top coal | ||
| killed in mones | ||
| 3 | killed in shaft | |
| 2 | killed in stanton shaft | |
| 9 | killed in the mines | |
| killed in the port blanchard mine shaft | ||
| killed in tornado in arms of her mother, elizabeth mcginley. | ||
| killed in wreck on lehigh valley rr | ||
| killed of railroad | ||
| killed on ashley planes | ||
| killed on c.r.r. of n.j. | ||
| killed on d&r rr | ||
| killed on l. v. r. r. | ||
| killed on lvrr | ||
| killed on lvrr at midvale | ||
| killed on railraod | ||
| 17 | killed on railroad | |
| 2 | killed on the railroad | |
| killer by car | ||
| killer on railroad | ||
| killled by engine | ||
| la gripp | ||
| 19 | la grippe | |
| la grippe - rheumatism | ||
| lagrippe | ||
| laryngeal abscess | ||
| laryngeal croup | ||
| 3 | laryngeal diphtheria | |
| laryngismus stridulus | ||
| laryngitis | ||
| laryngitis & pulmonary tuberculosis | ||
| larynxitis | ||
| laudanum poisoning | ||
| leakage of heart | ||
| leaky heart | ||
| legs cut off by cars | ||
| leptomening | ||
| leukemia | ||
| 3 | lingering illness | |
| listed in index, but not in lot records for lot 131 | ||
| liver | ||
| liver & kidney disease | ||
| liver abscess | ||
| 3 | liver cancer | |
| 21 | liver complaint | |
| 2 | liver complications | |
| liver complt | ||
| liver complt. | ||
| liver disease | ||
| 2 | liver trouble | |
| 95 | lobar pneumonia | |
| lobar pneumonia - diphtheria | ||
| lobar pneumonia following an operation | ||
| lobar pneumonia, tongue and lung cancer | ||
| 2 | lock jaw | |
| lock jaw (a.k.a. tetanus) | ||
| 3 | lockjaw | |
| loco ataxemy | ||
| 7 | locomotor ataxia | |
| locomotor atuxia | ||
| loomis | ||
| lubar pneumonia | ||
| ludwigs angina | ||
| lung abcess | ||
| lung abcess | ||
| 2 | lung cancer | |
| lung complaint | ||
| lung consumption | ||
| 17 | lung disease | |
| lung embolism | ||
| 9 | lung fever | |
| 2 | lung inflamation | |
| 6 | lung trouble | |
| lungs poisoned by acid | ||
| lymphatic leukemia | ||
| maeamcus | ||
| mal gestation | ||
| 14 | malaria | |
| malaria & typhoid | ||
| malaria and typhoid | ||
| 3 | malaria fever | |
| 12 | malarial fever | |
| malarial tuberculosis | ||
| malarial typhoid | ||
| 2 | malformation | |
| malignant pectule | ||
| malignant tumor | ||
| 25 | malnutrition | |
| malnutrition of spine | ||
| malnutrtion | ||
| 2 | malpractice | |
| mania & po | ||
| 2 | marasinus | |
| 3 | marasmas | |
| 155 | marasmus | |
| marasmus & yellow jaundice | ||
| marasuiris | ||
| 2 | marasums | |
| masosmus | ||
| mastoid anscess | ||
| mastoid operation | ||
| measales | ||
| measeles | ||
| measels | ||
| measels & croup | ||
| 84 | measles | |
| measles & diphtheria | ||
| measles & fever | ||
| measles & fits | ||
| 3 | measles & inflamation of lungs | |
| 3 | measles & pneumonia | |
| measles & whooping cough | ||
| measles and croup | ||
| measles and spinal meningitis | ||
| mediastatic emphysema | ||
| membramous croup & whooping cough | ||
| membramus croup | ||
| membrane croup | ||
| 12 | membraneous croup | |
| membraneous croupe | ||
| membraneous laryngitis | ||
| 87 | membranous croup | |
| 3 | membranous croup & diphtheria | |
| 2 | menbraneous croup | |
| menengitis | ||
| 6 | meningeal croup | |
| meningeal tuberculosis | ||
| 42 | meningitis | |
| meningitis (spinal) | ||
| meningitis following pneumonia | ||
| menningitis | ||
| mental insufficiency | ||
| merasmus | ||
| merentuic trombosis | ||
| merraeggattis | ||
| mesentens thrombosis | ||
| metatasis | ||
| metistatic endometrial cancer | ||
| miliary tuberculosis | ||
| millary tuberculosis | ||
| 77 | mine accident | |
| mine accident at d&h coal co. | ||
| mine accident; found dead in stanton colliery | ||
| 2 | mine explosion | |
| mine injuries | ||
| 21 | miners asthma | |
| 3 | miners' asthma | |
| 2 | miner's asthma | |
| miners astma | ||
| miners consumption | ||
| 2 | miners' consumption | |
| miner's consumption | ||
| 3 | miscarriage | |
| miteorl regurgitation - gen. debility | ||
| mitral heart disease | ||
| 5 | mitral insufficiency | |
| mitral insufficiency heart | ||
| mitral musupation of heart | ||
| 6 | mitral regurgitation | |
| mitral regurgitation colored | ||
| mitral stenosis | ||
| monstrosity | ||
| mortification | ||
| mortuary notice; date: 1905-03-17; paper: wilkes-barre times | ||
| mother had diabetes | ||
| mule kick | ||
| 3 | mumps | |
| 2 | murder | |
| murder - shot in heart | ||
| 4 | murdered | |
| myelitis | ||
| myocardiac infarction | ||
| myocardial damage | ||
| myocardial infection | ||
| 4 | myocardio infarction | |
| 200 | myocarditis | |
| myocarditis (chronic) | ||
| myocarditis heart condition | ||
| myocarditis heart disease | ||
| myocardits | ||
| 3 | myocharditis | |
| myoletis | ||
| narcotic poisoning | ||
| nasal diphtheria | ||
| 4 | natural causes | |
| natural fever | ||
| necrosis of spinal column | ||
| nephriths | ||
| 67 | nephritis | |
| nephritis - chronic heart trouble | ||
| nerve fever | ||
| nervous attack | ||
| nervous prostration | ||
| nervous prosttration | ||
| nervousness | ||
| neuralgia | ||
| neuralgia of heart | ||
| neuralgia on brain | ||
| neurosthemia | ||
| newsboy; killed by central flyer | ||
| nitral regrergitation | ||
| 126 | no cause given | |
| 2 | no cause listed | |
| 2 | no dates | |
| no entry | ||
| 5 | no given cause | |
| no information | ||
| 2 | none given | |
| not given | ||
| 2 | not known | |
| not listed | ||
| nothing listed | ||
| nural mitengation | ||
| obesity | ||
| 2 | obstruction of bowel | |
| 3 | obstruction of bowels | |
| obstuction of bowels | ||
| occlusive coronary | ||
| ocnsumption | ||
| oedema of lungs | ||
| of congestion | ||
| 143 | old age | |
| old age & dropsy | ||
| old age & general debility | ||
| old age & malarial fever | ||
| old age & paralysis | ||
| old age (exhaustion) | ||
| old age and cold | ||
| old colored woman died at city hospital | ||
| 2 | oleo colitis | |
| onthrocosis | ||
| operation | ||
| operation for goiter | ||
| 2 | organic disease | |
| 11 | organic heart disease | |
| 2 | organic heart disease and dropsy | |
| osteo colitis | ||
| osteo sarcoma | ||
| ovarian cyst & appendicitis | ||
| overdose of laudanum | ||
| overdose of laudnum | ||
| overdose of opium | ||
| palpitations of heart | ||
| palpural convulsion | ||
| 3 | palsey | |
| 14 | palsy | |
| pancreatic cancer | ||
| paraletic stroke | ||
| parallysis | ||
| 114 | paralysis | |
| paralysis - stroke | ||
| paralysis and apoplexy | ||
| paralysis and general debility | ||
| paralysis following diphtheria | ||
| paralysis following diptheria | ||
| paralysis of brain | ||
| 4 | paralysis of heart | |
| 3 | paralysis of insane | |
| paralysis of nerves | ||
| paralytic dementia | ||
| paralytic fit | ||
| paralytic fits | ||
| 11 | paralytic stroke | |
| parcetic dementia | ||
| parcoma | ||
| 3 | paresis | |
| paretic dementia | ||
| paretic dimentia | ||
| pectisis | ||
| pectoris | ||
| pediatric tuberculosis | ||
| pelvic abscess | ||
| pelvic cellulitis | ||
| pemphegos | ||
| pending (drug od) | ||
| perferia | ||
| perforated gastric ulcer | ||
| 3 | pericarditis | |
| periferal sepcis | ||
| perisis | ||
| peritonistis | ||
| 51 | peritonitis | |
| peritonitis following an operation | ||
| peritonitis with dropsy | ||
| peritonits | ||
| peritonits, typhoid fever | ||
| 3 | pernicious anemia | |
| perontitis | ||
| 3 | perotinitis | |
| phbhisis pulmonalis | ||
| phithisis | ||
| phithisis pulmonalis | ||
| phlebitis | ||
| 7 | phthesis | |
| phthesis puleroualis | ||
| 15 | phthisis | |
| phthisis pneumonalis | ||
| phthisis pneumonia | ||
| 7 | phthisis pulmonalis | |
| 6 | phthisis -tuberculosis | |
| 11 | phthsis | |
| phthsis paresis | ||
| phthsis pneumonia | ||
| phthsis pulmonaris | ||
| phthsis: complications | ||
| phthsis; tuberculosis | ||
| piles | ||
| piricarditis | ||
| pistol shot | ||
| pistol shot wound | ||
| pistol shot wound; suicide | ||
| "pistol wounds through heart and face by stewart whorley, a negro, supposedly over a mulatto girl named alice wilson. see article in w-b times dated 2 july | ||
| 1894. whorley claims it was self defense." | ||
| placenta previa | ||
| placenta previa (during childbirth) | ||
| pleural tuberculosis | ||
| pleuresy | ||
| pleuresy & pneumonia | ||
| 6 | pleurisy | |
| pleurisy of bowels | ||
| pleuro endocarditis | ||
| 7 | pleuro pneumonia | |
| pleuropneumonia | ||
| 2 | pleuro-pneumonia | |
| 5 | pleurosy | |
| pleurosy & inflamation of lungs | ||
| plu carcinoma | ||
| plural meningitis | ||
| pluresy | ||
| pluricy brights disease | ||
| pluro-pneumonia | ||
| plymouth disease: typhoid or malaria | ||
| plymouth fever | ||
| pnemonitis | ||
| pneumatic uremia | ||
| 2 | pneuminia | |
| pneuminia whooping cough | ||
| pneumonai | ||
| 715 | pneumonia | |
| pneumonia & cerebral meningitis | ||
| pneumonia & general debility | ||
| pneumonia & heart disease | ||
| pneumonia & hepititis | ||
| pneumonia & influenza | ||
| pneumonia & meningitis | ||
| pneumonia & whooping cough | ||
| pneumonia after appendicitis | ||
| pneumonia and croup | ||
| pneumonia following burns | ||
| pneumonia following measles | ||
| pneumonia following scarlet fever | ||
| pneumonia following whooping cough | ||
| pneumonia inflamation | ||
| pneumonia lagrippe | ||
| pneumonia lober | ||
| 2 | pneumonitis | |
| 2 | pnuemonia | |
| pnuemonia and inflamation of bowels | ||
| poisioning | ||
| 3 | poison | |
| poisoned | ||
| poisoned by paris green (an insecticide) | ||
| poisoned by wild parsnip | ||
| poisoning gas | ||
| possible suicide, under investigation | ||
| post scarletina nephritis | ||
| postfracture hemmorrage | ||
| potts disease | ||
| 2 | powder explosion | |
| powder explosion in mines | ||
| 3 | powder mill explosion | |
| pramature birth | ||
| 2 | prematire birth | |
| 20 | premature | |
| 239 | premature birth | |
| premature bitrth | ||
| premature childbirth | ||
| premature irth | ||
| 6 | prematurity | |
| primary anemia | ||
| proas abacess | ||
| probably heart disease | ||
| prolitis | ||
| prostate cancer | ||
| prostatic hypestrophy | ||
| protracted labor | ||
| prucious anemia | ||
| ptheisis | ||
| ptomaine poisoning | ||
| pueperal eclampisia | ||
| puerperal convulsions | ||
| puerperal eclampsia | ||
| 2 | puerperal fever | |
| puerperal infection | ||
| puerperal lepticalnia | ||
| pul pneumonia | ||
| 4 | pul tuberculosis | |
| pulm. tuberculosis | ||
| pulmanary collapse | ||
| pulminary tuberculosis | ||
| pulmnary hemorrhage | ||
| pulmonary ?? | ||
| pulmonary abscess | ||
| pulmonary asthma | ||
| 2 | pulmonary bronchial pneumonia | |
| 2 | pulmonary congestion | |
| 3 | pulmonary consumption | |
| pulmonary disease | ||
| 8 | pulmonary edema | |
| 4 | pulmonary embolism | |
| pulmonary endema | ||
| 5 | pulmonary hemorrhage | |
| pulmonary hemorrhage - mine accident | ||
| pulmonary hemorrhage - tuberculosis | ||
| pulmonary homorrhage | ||
| pulmonary hypo congestion | ||
| pulmonary infection | ||
| pulmonary insufficiency | ||
| 2 | pulmonary oedema | |
| 2 | pulmonary phthisis | |
| 2 | pulmonary phthsis | |
| 3 | pulmonary thrombosis | |
| 63 | pulmonary tuberculosis | |
| purpora hemorrhages | ||
| purura | ||
| pyanemia | ||
| pyelitis | ||
| pyena | ||
| pyjhlitis | ||
| pyloric stenosis | ||
| pyloric ulcer | ||
| pyonephrites (probably pyelonephritis) | ||
| pythisis - tuberculosis | ||
| 5 | quick consumption | |
| quick ocnsumption | ||
| quinzy | ||
| r. r. accident | ||
| rachitis | ||
| 49 | railroad accident | |
| 2 | railway accident | |
| 3 | rectal cancer | |
| rectal collapse | ||
| renal disease | ||
| 2 | renal dropsy | |
| respiratory and cardiac failure | ||
| respiratory collapse | ||
| 8 | respiratory failure | |
| result of a stroke on dec 3 | ||
| result of delivery | ||
| result of injuries received in a trolly car accident july 11th, 1911 | ||
| result of injury | ||
| result of railroad accident | ||
| result of trolly accident | ||
| rheumatic arthritis | ||
| rheumatic feveer | ||
| 5 | rheumatic fever | |
| 3 | rheumatic heart | |
| 22 | rheumatism | |
| rheumatism & dropsy | ||
| rheumatism & pneumonia | ||
| 7 | rheumatism of heart | |
| rhumatic inflamation & typhoid fever | ||
| rhumatic myocarditis | ||
| rhumatism | ||
| rhumetoid arthritis | ||
| 2 | ricketts | |
| rr accident | ||
| run over by a wagon | ||
| 9 | run over by cars | |
| run over by cars on july 17 | ||
| run over by coal cars | ||
| run over by d & h cars | ||
| run over by street car | ||
| run over by train while laying on tracks | ||
| run over by wagon | ||
| run ovver by train | ||
| 7 | rupture | |
| rupture bladder | ||
| rupture of aortic aneurysm | ||
| rupture of blood vessel | ||
| rupture of blood vessels | ||
| rupture of lung | ||
| rupture of lungs | ||
| rupture of ovarian cyst | ||
| rupture of spine | ||
| rupture of stomach | ||
| rupture stomach | ||
| ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm | ||
| ruptured blood vessel | ||
| ruptured liver | ||
| ruptured sacular | ||
| salt rheum. | ||
| 4 | sarcoma | |
| sarcoma of left ulna | ||
| sarcoma of liver | ||
| sarcoma of pelvis | ||
| sarcunis | ||
| saricoma of lung | ||
| scald | ||
| 11 | scalded | |
| scalded by bursting of steam pipe | ||
| scalded by explosion | ||
| scalded by water | ||
| 2 | scalded in mines | |
| scalding | ||
| 2 | scalds | |
| scarlatania | ||
| 2 | scarlatina | |
| scarlet feaver | ||
| scarlet feve | ||
| 183 | scarlet fever | |
| 4 | scarlet fever & diphtheria | |
| scarlet fever & dropsy | ||
| scarlet fever & heart failure | ||
| scarlet fever & inflamation of lungs | ||
| scarlet fever & measles | ||
| scarlet fever & measles & diphtheria | ||
| scarlet fever diptheltheria | ||
| scarlet fever diptheria | ||
| scarlet rash | ||
| scarlet rash & dropsy | ||
| 7 | scarletina | |
| scarletina & dropsy | ||
| scarofula | ||
| sciatica endocarditis | ||
| 2 | sclerosis | |
| 7 | scrofula | |
| 2 | scrofulus fever | |
| scrofulus sore mouth | ||
| sea poison | ||
| senile cardiac faillure | ||
| senile changes | ||
| senile depepuation | ||
| senile deterioration | ||
| senile gangrene | ||
| senile pneumonia | ||
| 7 | senility | |
| 3 | septacemia | |
| septenemia | ||
| septic cysts | ||
| 6 | septic infection | |
| septic meningitis | ||
| septic peritonitis | ||
| 5 | septic pneumonia | |
| 3 | septicaemia | |
| 16 | septicemia | |
| septicemia - due to infected naval | ||
| septicemia following blood poison | ||
| 2 | septiremia | |
| severe birth | ||
| severe generalized arteriosclerosis | ||
| severe illness | ||
| severe sickness | ||
| 10 | shock | |
| shock - burns | ||
| shock & concussion | ||
| shock accidental | ||
| shock during injury from being hit by train | ||
| shock following absess | ||
| shock following accident at unattended railroad crossing. | ||
| shock following birth | ||
| shock following injury | ||
| shock following miscarriage | ||
| shock following operation | ||
| shock following railroad accident | ||
| shock from injury | ||
| shock received from broken leg | ||
| shock; fractured skull from fall down stairs. | ||
| shot | ||
| shot by connell bros. | ||
| shot to death murder | ||
| sick suddenly | ||
| 2 | silicosis | |
| 2 | sinking of home, mine cave | |
| sirrosis of liver | ||
| 40 | small pox | |
| 5 | smallpox | |
| smothered in culm pile | ||
| smothered in mine | ||
| softening of brain | ||
| sore head healed too quick | ||
| 4 | sore mouth | |
| sore throat | ||
| 2 | spasm | |
| spasmadic croup | ||
| spasmodic | ||
| 35 | spasms | |
| spelled rasper in lot record; brought in from old point comfort | ||
| spimal meningitis | ||
| spina bifida | ||
| spinabufida | ||
| spinal & cerebro menengitis | ||
| spinal bifida | ||
| 13 | spinal disease | |
| spinal injury | ||
| spinal malaria | ||
| spinal mengitis | ||
| 3 | spinal meningitis | |
| 3 | spine disease | |
| 3 | spiral meningitis | |
| splenic anemia | ||
| 18 | spotted fever | |
| sprain | ||
| srterio heart disease | ||
| ssepticemia | ||
| stab wound | ||
| stagnation of the blood | ||
| starvation | ||
| starvation in prison confinement | ||
| statras thymicus | ||
| status epilepticus (convulsions) | ||
| still birth | ||
| 18 | still born | |
| still bron | ||
| stillbirth | ||
| stillbor | ||
| 1232 | stillborn | |
| 2 | stillborn - premature birth | |
| stillborn male | ||
| stillborn, premature birth | ||
| stillborn: anoxia | ||
| stomach canceer | ||
| 16 | stomach cancer | |
| 8 | stomach trouble | |
| stomach trouble cold | ||
| 2 | stomach ulcers | |
| stone gall of the liver | ||
| 4 | strangulated hernia | |
| 8 | strangulation | |
| strangulation - hanging | ||
| 3 | street car accident | |
| stricture | ||
| stricture of throat | ||
| 2 | stroke | |
| stroke of paralysis | ||
| struck by a car | ||
| struck by lehigh valley engine | ||
| struck by passenger train | ||
| 3 | struck by train | |
| struck by train 21 aug 1916 | ||
| 2 | struck by trolley car | |
| structure of bile ???? | ||
| suffication | ||
| suffocated by gas. | ||
| 6 | suffocation | |
| suffocation of gas | ||
| suffocation or inflamation | ||
| sugar diabetes | ||
| 49 | suicide | |
| suicide - alcoholism | ||
| 2 | suicide - hanging | |
| suicide (cut throat) | ||
| suicide (drowning) | ||
| 2 | suicide by carbolic acid poisoning | |
| suicide by drowning; jumped from dagobert st. into susquehanna a week ago. identified by 1910 miner's certificate found in his pocket. | ||
| 10 | suicide by hanging | |
| suicide by hanging in scranton jail | ||
| suicide by laudnum | ||
| suicide by pistol shot wounds | ||
| suicide by poisioning | ||
| suicide by revolver wound | ||
| suicide by shooting himself in the head at 87 dagobert st. spanish-american war veteran. survived by his father and 4 sisters. | ||
| suicide by whiskey | ||
| suicide from shotgun wound. | ||
| suicide, bullet through roof of mouth | ||
| suicide; jumped from the market st. bridge into the susquehanna river | ||
| summer c ??? | ||
| 2 | summer compalint | |
| 163 | summer complaint | |
| summer complications | ||
| summer croup | ||
| summer diarrhea | ||
| summer diarrhora | ||
| summer dranhora | ||
| summercomplaint | ||
| 2 | sun stroke | |
| 5 | sunstroke | |
| supposed he was murdered | ||
| susmmer complaint | ||
| sustained fractured skull | ||
| swelling in neck | ||
| swelling of the larynx | ||
| sycope | ||
| syncope | ||
| 2 | syphilis | |
| syphilitic | ||
| syphilitic aortitic | ||
| systhis of nephritis | ||
| syticemia | ||
| tabes dorsalis (a late form of syphilis resulting in nerve damage) | ||
| tachycardia | ||
| taking medicine | ||
| 53 | teething | |
| teething & cholera infantum | ||
| teething & croup | ||
| 2 | teething & dysentery | |
| 2 | teething & fits | |
| teething & measles | ||
| teething & summer complaint | ||
| teething and fits | ||
| teething and inflamation of brain | ||
| teething and membranous croup | ||
| teething cholera infantum | ||
| 4 | tetanus | |
| third degree burns | ||
| thphoid fever | ||
| 2 | throat cancer | |
| 2 | throat disease | |
| throat hemorrhage | ||
| 9 | thrombosis | |
| thyphoid fever | ||
| thypoid pneumonia | ||
| tibercular menengitis | ||
| toxema | ||
| 7 | toxemia | |
| toxic gastric enteritis | ||
| toxieosis | ||
| traumatic meningitis | ||
| traumatic peritonitis | ||
| traumatic shock | ||
| traumatic agitation ? | ||
| trouble with spine | ||
| tuarition | ||
| tubercular bronchial pneumonia | ||
| 8 | tubercular meningitis | |
| 4 | tubercular peritonitis | |
| tubercular pleurisy | ||
| tubercular pneumonia | ||
| 134 | tuberculosis | |
| tuberculosis - obit says dropsy | ||
| tuberculosis & premature birth | ||
| tuberculosis emphysema | ||
| tuberculosis meningitis | ||
| 2 | tuberculosis of lungs | |
| tuberculosis of rectum | ||
| tuberculosis of skin | ||
| tuberculosis pulmonalis | ||
| tuberculosis, whooping cough & pneumonia | ||
| tubicular mirentery | ||
| 3 | tuburcular meningitis | |
| tuburculer meningitis | ||
| 15 | tumor | |
| tumor & dropsy | ||
| tumor and dropy | ||
| tumor in brain | ||
| tumor of bowels | ||
| 2 | tumor of brain | |
| tumor of liver | ||
| tumor of spine | ||
| tumor on back | ||
| tumors | ||
| tumors of brain | ||
| turbercular meningitis | ||
| turbercular pneumonia | ||
| turmor in stomach | ||
| tyhoid fever | ||
| typhiod fever | ||
| 3 | typhoid | |
| typhoid and scarlet fever | ||
| typhoid feveer | ||
| 221 | typhoid fever | |
| typhoid fever & diphtheria | ||
| typhoid fever & kidney disease | ||
| typhoid fever & spinal disease | ||
| typhoid fever and heart failure | ||
| typhoid malaria | ||
| 30 | typhoid pneumonia | |
| typhus abdominalis | ||
| 3 | typhus fever | |
| ulcer | ||
| ulcer in throat | ||
| ulcerated stomach | ||
| ulceration of stomach | ||
| ulcers on lungs | ||
| undetermined | ||
| 24 | unknown | |
| 15 | unknown cause | |
| unknown cause of death | ||
| 3 | unknown causes | |
| unknown cod | ||
| upper gi bleed: anthracilacosia | ||
| ur..fibrillation | ||
| 9 | uraemia | |
| uraemia convulsions | ||
| uraemic convulsions | ||
| uranamia | ||
| urania poisoning | ||
| urasma | ||
| 49 | uremia | |
| uremia & heart disease | ||
| uremia & nephritis | ||
| 3 | uremia nephrosis | |
| uremia poisoning | ||
| 3 | uremic coma | |
| 3 | uremic convulsions | |
| 2 | uremic poisoning | |
| 2 | uterine cancer | |
| uterine hemorrhage | ||
| uterine sarcoma | ||
| utero colitis | ||
| utero hemorrhage | ||
| uterus | ||
| vaalvular heart disease | ||
| 2 | vaccination | |
| valoular heart trouble | ||
| valvular disease of heart | ||
| 15 | valvular heart disease | |
| valvulitis | ||
| vascular disease | ||
| vascular stroke | ||
| ventricular fibrilation | ||
| virus pneumonia | ||
| volivus | ||
| vomiting blood | ||
| water of brain | ||
| 8 | water on brain | |
| 2 | water on the brain | |
| 2 | weak heart | |
| weak lungs | ||
| 453 | weakness | |
| weakness & general debility | ||
| 2 | weakness from birth | |
| weakness from premature birth | ||
| weakness; la grippe | ||
| 4 | weeakness | |
| wesogestation | ||
| 90 | whooping cough | |
| whooping cough & complications | ||
| whooping cough & fits | ||
| 2 | whooping cough & pneumonia | |
| whooping cough & spasms | ||
| whooping cough & weakness | ||
| whooping cough croup | ||
| whooping cough w/ convulsions | ||
| whooping vough | ||
| whoopiong cough | ||
| wilkes-barre | ||
| wood alcoholism | ||
| worm fever | ||
| 2 | worms | |
| wound of brain | ||
| 3 | yellow jaundice |
Original file from
https://www.wilkes-barre.city/sites/wilkes-barrepa/files/uploads/wbcemeteryrecordscomplete.pdf
Readers here know I’m a big fan of advice columns in general, and of Heloise in particular. In a recent Heloise column, 13-year-old Jenna D. asked “Why are items priced at $4.99 instead of $5?”
Heloise had a good answer: “It’s based on the fact that we read [prices] from right to left. Your brain perceives the number 4 as less than 5, which it is. So we’re thinkin’ we’re getting a heck of a deal!“ God, I love Heloise. It’s like hearing from Marge Gunderson.
I’ve heard another good reason for pricing goods this way: it’s to reduce employee theft. Ever since the invention of the cash register, store owners have known that on even-dollar items, cashiers would sometimes slip the cash into their own pocket instead of ringing it up.
In the late 1800s, a manager at Sears Roebuck, or maybe Montgomery Ward depending on who you believe, came up with the idea of reducing even-dollar prices by one cent as a way to force cashiers to open the register to give change on every sale. This created a record of the sale, rang a bell to announce it, and got the cash into the proper hands.
Wikipedia article Psychological pricing gives us several other good reasons for this sometimes annoying pricing practice.
Below, the book’s title says it all – it’s a history of the cash register.
Probably every commercial building in New York City has led several lives. The building at 310 Fifth Avenue, between 32nd and 33rd, is a good example. In 1927 it was an IBM showroom; in 2021 an upscale men’s hat store.
The 1927 display window featured pre-computer–era business machinery such as a time clock to track employee attendance, a parcel-post scale and meter, grinders for coffee and meat, and various types of punched card equipment.
Ninety-plus years later, this busy Manhattan neighborhood is known as Koreatown. The IBM showroom is now the nicely-fitted-out J.J. Hat Center.
Next door at 308 Fifth Avenue is the Manhattan branch of the Bank of Hope, the world’s largest Korean-American commercial bank.
On the other side, at 312 Fifth, is Gopchang Story BBQ, a Korean barbecue restaurant focusing on beef intestines. Gopchang’s intriguing intro page and delivery menu make me wish I still worked in Manhattan.
Yes, Dallas. Even sixty years later, that name brings sad memories to those who were watching television on November 22nd, 1963 and over the long weekend that followed.
From the moment we heard that shots had been fired at the President’s motorcade, then later heard Walter Cronkite’s announcement that the President was dead, we could not take our eyes off the screen.
Stunned, we watched over and over the motorcade turn into the Dealey Plaza ambush, the President be shot, Jackie reach for something, the limousine speed off to the hospital.
We watched the vigil outside the emergency room, we watched Air Force One’s return to Washington with the President’s body and the new President, we watched the thousands of mourners pass by the casket, we watched over and over Jack Ruby kill Oswald, we watched the funeral procession, we watched Jackie at the grave.
We had a Thanksgiving, winter came, we had a Christmas, then more winter.
Then, on February 9th, we watched a new band called the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show.
Somehow, when we went to bed that night, we felt like everything was going to be all right.
Abe went to the widow
and before he would leave her
he split her rails
and then her beaver
After checking in at Labcorp, I am called to room #3, followed by the technician. After our hellos and identity confirmation, I pass along some news from the waiting-room TV.
Me, lightly: “Hey, some sorta bad news just now on the TV.”
She, a bit wary: “Oh?”
Me: “Yeah, they just said Grumpy Cat died.”
She: “Oh no!” (looks distressed)
Me: “Yeah, plus the guy on TV said ‘Grumpy THE Cat has died.’”
She, disgusted: “He didn’t. Even. Know.”
We talk a bit more about the life of Grumpy, then she draws my blood.
As I roll down my sleeve to leave, she mentions Grumpy again.
Me, solemnly: “You will never forget where you were this day.”
She, solemnly: “Yes… in Room 3, with Paul.”
I have a small framed print of this photo in a prominent spot in my house. When a friend noticed it for the first time, she asked me who the girls were. I couldn’t resist, and said “Oh, that’s my Aunt Mabel and my mom helping out at a streetcar strike in New York City.”
She started to say how wonderful that was, but I told her I was only kidding – what I said was just something I liked to imagine because my Aunt Mabel and my mom were both the right age to have looked like that in 1916.
Full-size retouched photo, much crisper than the one above
(Crisp: “Pleasantly clear and sharp”)
Plinth, the original title of this article, is an odd-looking word. It means “a heavy base supporting a statue or vase.” My wife Mimi and I first became aware of the word when we were in England on vacation in 1989.
I know the year was 1989 because I looked up the date the newly-repaired Portland Vase (pronounced “Vahhhse” if you are British) was restored to its plinth at the British Museum.
That much-celebrated artifact, a violet-blue Roman glass urn taken from the tomb of Emperor Alexander Severus, is probably the most famous glass object in the world. Believed to date between A.D. 1 and A.D. 25, the first recorded mention of it was in 1601, as it began its travels among the collections of Pope Urban VIII, Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, and several noble Roman families including the Barberinis. During those years the vase was known as the Barberini Vase.
In the 1770s, it was sent to Britain in repayment of gambling debts incurred by Donna Cordelia Barberini. From there it came into the possession of the 3rd Duke of Portland, earning it the name it is known by today. After further travels, in 1810 the vase was transferred safely to the collection of the British Museum—so far so good.
But one afternoon in 1845, a drunken student named William Mulcahy threw a heavy sculpture onto the artifact’s glass case, smashing the vase to pieces (189 of them, to be precise), and precipitating years of news stories and three vase restorations. The first two restorations were unsatisfactory—as time passed, the glue yellowed and became visible. The third and most recent restoration, completed over the 1988 Christmas holiday, took nine months and used modern adhesives and methods. That restoration was pronounced a success and predicted to last 100 years.
This is where Mimi and I come in. We had been wandering through the museum admiring such treasures as the Rosetta Stone, taken from the French after their 1801 defeat in Egypt, and the so-called Elgin Marbles, decorative friezes stripped from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin in the early 1800s. We came to a room devoted to artifacts of the Roman Empire.
The Portland Vase wasn’t in the room yet, but shortly after we entered it was rolled in and placed on a plinth by a solemn procession of guards, curators and officials.
Having never heard of the Portland Vase, and knowing nothing of its history, I was curious about the object that had been brought into the room with such ceremony.
Being an American, I walked over to get a better look, ending up about three feet away. The vase was not yet enclosed in protective glass, and was truly beautiful. Its guards were not prepared for the sudden appearance of this much-too-close visitor, and froze. Could it happen again? Time stood still.
Surprisingly, no one tackled me or tried in any way to move me away from the venerated object.
After a minute or two, I finished my inspection, rejoined Mimi and we moved on.
Special thanks to restoration site sylcreate.com for their article “A restoration 144 years in the making – how the Portland Vase was restored to its Roman glory”
“You’re not gonna believe this”
Three unrelated things I’ve seen that people seem reluctant to believe when I tell about them. Your mileage may vary.
“…and when I woke up the next morning, my cavities was filled!”
“What were thy filled with?”
“They was filled with… SILVER!”
Google is no help tracking down this preacher or his show, so good luck to you and keep me posted.
The Star-Spangled Banner has four verses, not that you’d know it from seeing any ball games. I have never heard verse 2, 3 or 4 sung in public. Verse 3 is especially interesting because it dumps all over that ‘band’ of dirty Redcoat bastards. It goes like this:
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
courtesy newberry.org
This Thursday was Thanksgiving, a religious and secular holiday Americans observe every year. What made this year’s Thanksgiving even more significant, although the fact was overlooked by the media, was that it marked 400 years since the Pilgrims set foot on this continent, November 11th, 1620.
Unlike the media, I am proud of those 400 years.
The Post Office hasn’t forgotten; they have a commemorative Forever stamp showing the 1620 date.
