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"Sick List"

The Danville Commercial says, that on account of failing health, Hon. Joseph G. Cammon contemplates an extended trip, possibly to Europe for recuperation. (The Charleston Plaindealer, June 23, 1887)

Billy Brown took his little boy to Terre Haute last Monday to the mad stone. He had been bitten Saturday last, by a [dog??] hog belonging to Harry Parish. He telegraphed that the stone would not adhere to the wound.
From the Danville Daily News - January 14, 1892 [submitted by Barb Moksnes]

Jacob Hammer's baby is very sick.
From the Danville Daily News - January 14, 1892 [submitted by Barb Moksnes]

Constable W. C. Thompson was at Newton on business yesterday and while returning home frosted his feet badly. [From the Danville Daily News - Jan. 17, 1893 - submitted by Barb Moksnes]

Star Athlete In Squalor - Danville - Fred E Brown, once a star athlete and brilliant scholar has been found living in squalor in a dense woods near here. Has suffered many mental problems since being injured some time ago during a football game. [Litchfield Daily Union, Friday, July 8, 1927 - submitted by Lynn Boyd Reener]


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