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After reading the following article that appeared in the Egyptian Press on January 20, 1913, about the use of a “mad stone” to diagnose and cure rabies, my curiosity got the best of me and I had to figure out what it was, so here is what I found out.
F. Smoot of Marion was bitten by a mad dog. The dog was captured and slain and has been pronounced a true mad dog. The injured man, Rev. Smoot’s only brother will be hastened to St. Louis or Chicago to undergo the Pasteur treatment. A “mad stone” was applied Thursday afternoon and is said to have “stuck.” Continue reading
A collection of news clippings from local papers in the period of 1913, January through June.
See also, 1913, Marion News Clippings, July – December. Continue reading
Marion Woman Finally Working as Police Officer
Dawn Williams (now, Tondini) can’t remember a time when she didn’t want to be a police officer.
As a baby she loved to dress up in her father’s police hat, and his leather slapstick was her favorite teething ring. When she learned to read, she turned first to her dad’s police training books.
Her ambition became reality recently when the 27 year old was sworn in as the first female patrol officer in the Marion Police Department. She has worked as a dispatcher for the department since April 1992, and was a member of the police auxiliary for 1 ½ years before that. Continue reading
John Allen Hay was born in Marion on March 17, 1902, at 513 S. Market Street in the home of his grandparents, Romulus and Adelle Holland who built the home in 1875. John was the second child born to the marriage of Charles W. Hay (1873-1967) and Elizabeth “Bess” Holland.
John’s mother, Bess Holland, died in 1908 when he was only six years old and the situation was reflected in the 1910 census. His grandfather, Romulus Holland, owner of the home on S. Market, was 64 and a salesman for a coal oil distributor. John’s father, Charles W. Hay, owned a shoe store at 304 Public Square, next to the First National Bank and was a widower, 37 years of age. Continue reading