Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Death Follows an Operation.

New York, 1895

Miss Ida Skidmore, of Setauket, aged 26, died in New York Monday night, from an operation for a cancer. The operation was performed and the deceased was improving, when suddenly she began to sink.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 28, 1895, p. 8.

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