People, Aug. 24, 1936

"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

Rushing to visit his wife & newborn son at the hospital, South Carolina's Governor Olin Dewitt Talmadge Johnston was knocked unconscious when his car struck the machine of Mrs. Marie Loop of Eldred, Pa., looped over three times on the road.

Fishing near Saratoga, N. Y., Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle was stung 26 times by yellow jackets.

When Alabama's poliomyelitis ("polio") epidemic intensified, Governor Bibb Graves ordered all inmates in State institutions to be given an immunizing nasal spray (picric acid + sodium alum),...

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