Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1916 — Free Wood Has a Severe Case of the Smallpox. [ARTICLE]

Free Wood Has a Severe Case of the Smallpox.

Free Wood, the colored barber, is confined at his home with a bad case of smallpox. He has no knowledge of having come in contact with the disease. Tuesday of last week while shaving a cutsomer at his shop he became suddenly dizzy and. fell in a faint on the floor. He was taken to his home and there had the preliminary fever and nausea that precedes the breaking out. His case is worse than most of the'cases tHat have~occurred here during the fall and winter. He had never been successfully vaccinated.