Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1916 — Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Knox Has Infantile Paralysis. [ARTICLE]

Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Knox Has Infantile Paralysis.

Word has been received here stating that Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Knox, of Chicago, is now an inmate of a hospital in that city, suffering with air~attack of infantile paralysis. The little one took sick-last Thursday. At the present time only the right limh. is affected. Mr. Knox is a son of Thomas Knox, of near Rensselaer, and Mrs. Knox is a sister of Mrs. W. J. Wright, of this city. " Tills UrUUll preva-. lent throughout’ various parts of the United States for the past several months but so far this is the first case reported concerning any of our own people.