Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-26

BY Newspaper Enterprise
PHILADELPHIA-Giving a quart
of his life's blood means no more
to Thomas Shaw, a Philadelphia
grocer, than going to see a baseball
game or attending the movies means
to the average personi
To date he has submitted to 26
blood TRANSMISSION operations, break
ing all worlds records!
Shaw is rs, five feet five inches
tall, broad-shouldered, and weighs
179 pounds.
Il have never felt the slightest
i'll effect from one of my 26 opera
tons" Shaw says. "As soon as the
TRANSMISSION has been made and the
surgeons have dressed and bandaged
my arm, l leave the hospital i'm
mediately and &C about my business
just as 1 do every day of the year.
Does Him Good
Shaw's case is one of the most
remarkable in the records of mod
ern surgery.
Three years ago he suffered slight
ly from pains in the head and his
family physician advised blood let
ting as a remedy for his trouble.
In five weeks three and one-half
quarts of blood were taken from his
veins and the pains in the head have
disappeared.
A short time after that Shaw
noticed an advertisement in one of
the local papers for someone to vol
unteer for a blood TRANSMISSION oper-
alton. He underwent the operation,
saved the patients life and felt none
the worse for his experience.
Since then he has submitted to rs
additional t~ransfusions and has
given something over II quarts Of
blood.
money available for the paving of
the second portion of the avenue at
the present time and that nothing
could be done now.
The Mechanicsville "hole in the
wall" was again brought UP in the
communication received from Jo-
seph jerome, of 521 Ridgeway ave-
Il Mr.. Jerome said he had been
a resident there for twenty-seven
years and during all that time had
been annoyed and endangered by
the conditions existing there. The
passage way is now two feet mar
rover. Mr.. Jerome stated, due to
the installation of uprights by the
railroad company to support their
tracks. Relief of the dangerous con-
dition was requested.
Freebooter Applegate said that
undoubtedly conditions at that
point were bad and deserved imme-
date action. 1t was said the rail-
road company had been notified "
eral weeks g to remove the truss
es and arrange a plan whereby the
water from the railroad tracks
would not be carried lnto the pas
sageway. No answer has been
received. BY motion of Freebooter
Orpen, Road Supervisor John Lessen
was authorized to wait upon the
railroad company and order the
elimination Of the interior trusses
and also to make arrangements for
proper drainage.
A letter from the Public Service
Company was read to the board o
the tracks on Ferry street, South
River, had been completed in &C
cordance with the instructions of
the freeholders. Freebooter Apple
gate noted that the work had not
been done properly.
A headstone for the grave of a de-
ceased soldier who was recently
shot at Chrome was requested by
the Roosevelt American Legion post.
Upon the death of the soldier. the
communication said, there were no
relatives to the burial ex-
penses with the exception of a dis
tant cousin who refused to bear the
cost of burial. The legion post stood
the cost of the funeral and requested
a monument for the grave, in accord
ance with the power granted boards
of freeholders by the state law.
The clerk was instructed IT, notify
the Roosevelt American Legion that
when a death certificate, together
with the discharge of the soldier,
was submitted to the freeholders
action in accordance with the law
would be taken.
In reference to the claim recently
made by Michael Apple5aum, of
Bound Brook, seeking to receive
damages incurred as the result of his
automobile crashing through the
bridge on the Englishtown-Spotss
wood road. Frederick Richardson's
| county counsel. reported that there
was no liability on the part of the
| county. Payment was therefore re-
fused.
BY a resolution introduced by
Freebooter Beloff the Bonnie Burn
Sanatorium was authorized to ac-
cept John Shipossky as a county pa
! tient at a cost not to exceed $l7.
Shipossky lives at 179 Pershing ave-
nue., Chrome. The resolution was