Nov. 13, birthdays for Jimmy Kimmel, Whoopi Goldberg, Gerard Butler
Brooklyn Today
Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 317th day of the year.
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ON THIS DAY in 1914, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Slim Hope to Save Girl Rabies Victim.” The article focused on a rabies probe that was to take place at the time due to children being bitten by infected animals.
“Hope was abandoned today for the recovery of Grace Polhemus, the 13-year-old … who is dying from hydrophobia, more than a year after she was infected by the bite of a stray cat,” the Eagle reported. “The coma which has marked her condition for the last two days has increased today…. In their opinion, death cannot be delayed beyond tomorrow.”