KinSource - Tale of the Week - Fainted In The Street

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The St. Paul Daily Globe, June 3, 1900, p. 3

FAINTED IN THE STREET.

John H. Dunbar, Once Shut Out, Admitted to City Hospital.

John H. Dunbar, sixty-four years of age, was taken to the city hospital last evening, suffering from rheumatism, which has badly crippled him. Dunbar came here recently from Fargo, N. D. He applied for assistance to Relief Agent Hutchins and was sent to the Helping Hand mission. While on the way there he sank exhausted to the street and was taken in charge by the police. Assistant City [Physician] Weirick ordered him removed to the hospital, where admission had previously been refused Dunbar, because he is a non-resident.

Dunbar says he lost his family in the Johnstown flood, some years ago. He is a laborer and has a sister at Sioux City, Io., where he says he will have a permanent home if he can reach his relatives.