JACK DEMPSEY ILL
REMOVAL OF APPENDIX
(Received July 1,10- a.m.) NEW YORK, June 30. The former heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey is suffering from peritonitis following the removal of a gangrenous appendix., The hospital reported: "Dempsey spent a fair night and is resting comfortably." His wife is staying at the hospital. The hospital superintendent said: "Dempsey is a very sick man." Telephone inquiries about Dempsey were so numerous that extra operators) were added to the hospital switchboard. Some, calls came from as far distant as California.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 1, 1 July 1939, Page 9
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86JACK DEMPSEY ILL Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 1, 1 July 1939, Page 9
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