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Show FIRST-AID REMEDIES MORE THAN POISON Chicago. Aug 7. Jack Holler gulped down a weak poison as he stood by a coda fountain, hoping to end for all time his Bufferings from rheumatism. rheuma-tism. In the excitement which followed fol-lowed his collapse, persons who thought they knew best how to give first aid to the would-he suicide administered ad-ministered the following job lot of antidotes: A bottle of lemon syrup; a bottle of mucilage; a piece of chewing tobacco; to-bacco; two raw eggs; threo feathers, whisky and milk An ambulance surgeon arrived just in tome to save Heller from swallowing swallow-ing more antidotes which someone had suggested "If that's the way thev treat a poor man who wants to die, I won't trv it again. I'd rather suffer from rheumatism," rheu-matism," said Heller. |