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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1909 | 1 |
1 story matching sickroom
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:stockroom, sick, backroom, sickb, sickl, checkroom
- The Cruelest Con: Fake Letters From the Sickroom
Police say an Englishman charmed strangers, learned their children’s addresses, then mailed desperate pleas for medical money.
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- Delirium and Chaos at the Pest House
Patients suffering from smallpox break into a violent frenzy, forcing the Health Officer to intervene.
- Quarantined Residents Left Without Food in Seattle
Thirty people trapped inside the St. Denis hotel by a smallpox order face city bureaucracy and hunger.