June 30, 1841: The Whig reported that it had regretted to learn from a source, âthat the Hon. E.H. Foster, is again confined to his bed on account of the wound he received at the hands of Mr. Brown â The facts are, that a few days after the occurrence, the wound healed up, and all apprehensions of danger passed away, and his Physicians were of opinion, that the knife blade, which broke off and was supposed to be in his body, was not there.â
âBut after Col. Foster had recovered, and was supposed to be out of all danger, he was troubled incessantly with a severe pain, in the neighborhood of the wound, and his Physicians were induced to change their opinions, and open consultation determined on making a search for his broken blade â Accordingly, on Thursday the 17 inst., an incision between 3 and 4 inches long, was made over the surface of the wound, and down to the membrane that covered the bone but after a painful and attentive search, no blade was discovered
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BY WENDY MIGDAL
FOR THE FREE LANCEâSTAR
A long-forgotten feature of newspapers past is The Womenâs Page, which ran in The Free LanceâStar from 1926â53. Most newspapers had one, and some started years earlier and ended years later. Perusing the pages provides interesting details about midcentury life, and raises even more questions: Why were the pages started and ended when they were? What caused certain standard features to be added and dropped? And what was the deal with all the gelatin-based food, anyway?
Beginning only on Saturdays, it expanded to a daily feature by the 1930s. One mainstay of the page was the society newsâwho was entertaining out-of-town guests, whose child was home from college, who just returned from visiting family in Port Royal, who was in the hospital. Interestingly, these items had always appeared in the paper, in the past with the title âNewsy Nuggets,â subtitle âMany Minor Matters Merely Mentioned,â