Medicine: LIFE

Last week these births made medical news:

In Oakland distracted young Horatio Randall shot his pretty estranged wife Elsie in the head. Elsie was almost nine months pregnant. Less than ten minutes before she died, Surgeon Clarence Augustus De Puy delivered her by Caesarean section of a robust boy.

In East Irvington, N. Y,, answering a midnight emergency call, Patrolman George Butler sped his radio car to an out-of-the-way household where Mrs. Eleanor Moller, 22, was about to bear her third child, in a kitchen, alone. Police Doctor Cassius De Victoria was soon en route...

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