Today -100: March 13, 1923: Of crowd control and fevers

When French soldiers attempt to arrest a couple of Germans they think responsible for the killing of the French soldier & railroadguy at Buer (the German government is now claiming it was actually done by French soldiers), a crowd forms and is fired upon. 7 dead. There are similar lethal events in Dortmund & Recklinghausen.

Doctors and, through relentless press coverage, the public, have been baffled by a Michigan girl who ran a temperature of 114 for weeks while seeming otherwise perfectly healthy. Of course it was a hoax. Hot water bottle.

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