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Enemas Pres. McKinley Received After Being Shot

October 20, 2013 in Excerpts, Politics, Science/Tech | Permalink

From a very detailed 1901 New York Times report about President McKinley’s failed medical treatments following the attempt on his life:

  1. A saline enema.
  2. One pint of saline enema.
  3. A saline enema.
  4. A saline enema with somatose.
  5. Enema of salt and somatose.
  6. A saline enema with somatose.
  7. Enema of sweet oil, soap and water.
  8. Enema of egg, whiskey and water.
  9. Enema with soap, water and ox-gall.

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Old Print Article: “Lads Enact Buffalo Tragedy,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1901)

April 12, 2012 in Old Print Articles, Urban Studies | Permalink

The 1901 assassination of President William McKinley in Buffalo, New York, had a bizarre and tragic echo in Muncie, Indiana, soon thereafter. A short article from the September 20, 1901 Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

“Muncie, Ind.–Omer Peolee, aged 10, was fatally shot at Winchester last evening while posing as President McKinley at Buffalo for Emil Miller of the same age, who was the pretended anarchist in the case.

The lads were playmates and undertook to enact the Buffalo tragedy. Miller secured his brother’s rifle for the work. The ball passed almost through the child’s stomach and he will die. The parents are distracted.”

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McKinley inauguration, 1901:

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