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Evening Times Republican
Marshalltown, Marshall County, Iowa
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In Davenport, Dorothea Vollmer Palm, daughter of former Congressman Henry Vollmer, contracted smallpox and was quarantined in her father's home shortly after her secret elopement and marriage to Edward Victor Palm of Chicago. Health officials suppressed the news to avoid upsetting the congressman.
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Mrs. Edward Vollmer Palm quarantined in father's home.
Davenport, Feb. 1. Isolated by health authorities in her father's home, from which she and Edward Victor Palm, of Chicago, only a few weeks ago fled to be secretly married, Dorothea Vollmer Palm, daughter of former Congressman Henry Vollmer, today became a victim of smallpox.
Health authorities attempted to suppress the story of her latest trouble fearing a new burst of anger from the former congressman, who became so heated over the published stories of his daughter's secret wedding to Palm that he threatened to thrash any newspaper man who approached him.
The young bride has been kept apart from her husband since their secret wedding.
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Davenport
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Feb. 1
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dorothea vollmer palm became a victim of smallpox and was quarantined in her father's home, isolated from her husband.
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Dorothea Vollmer Palm, daughter of former Congressman Henry Vollmer, who secretly married Edward Victor Palm of Chicago after fleeing her father's home, was isolated by health authorities in Davenport due to smallpox. Authorities attempted to suppress the story to avoid angering the congressman.