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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1922)
T hursday , J anuary PAGE THREE » 5. 1922 11--------------- ------------ —_____ _________ THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT m rum - ’ - 1 Another Chiropractic Achievement! DEAD AND DIVORCED-AND DOESN’T REMEMBER And Now, After Undergoing the Most Extraordinary Experience a Man Ever Had, George L. Fish, Capitalist, Is Honeymooning With His Fiancee of the Days Before the ‘’Cloud” ___ Three whole years have slip ped from the life of George Lea- ander Fish, the California capit alist and inventor. Three whole years have been drawn into the mysterious caverns of hia sub- conscious mind. But not only are those three years blotted from his memory, but they contain a story of ro- mance and adventure amazing to all who hear it—and most of all to George L. Fish himself. For in that now-forgotten lite Mr .Fish was pronounced dead, was miraculously resurected on the embalmer’s tabic, was married and divorced. His wife com plained of his obsession for ank les. He not only recalls no ob session for tinkles, but he cannot •even summon the faintest recol lection of his wife. Mr. Fish is now married again —to the woman to whom he was engaged when his memory first passed under a cloud. He is very happy—but a doubt of these three dark years of amgiesia is always in his mind. “What sort of a man was I?” he constantly asks himself. “What all did I Jose. The word "killed’’ is used ad visedly, for Fish, after being pick ed up and carried to a hospital at Garden City, was officially pro nounced dead and a certificate to that effect made out. A Remarkable Experience. His body was pitifully mangled. Twenty-two teeth were knocked out, his nose smashed, his collar bone fractured :n three places, his ipine dislocated, reven ribs, both arms and leg) broken. Physicians who examined him after he first reached the hospital said that life would be extinct in 40 minutes, but he was not actually pronounced dead until two days later. His body was taken to the mor gue and funeral arrangements made. The mortician started the process of embalming by making a deep incision in Fish’s arm, where upon he discovered signs of life in th0 body. Following a forlorn hope the body was rushed back to the hospital and tlte fight for life re- newed. Three months later Fish was dls- charged as cured. He was cured, in a sense, That is, the wounds of his fleh had healed and his bones, to not known. Fish, of course, recalls nothing of them and Virginia Burns Fish, who has been sick for a long time, has been reluctant to discuss the affair. Whether she married him knowing that the greater part of his past was a blank she has never said. But Fish, according to her bill of divorce, was not a good husband in the accepted sense of the word. She charged that he "judged wo- mqn’s characters by their ankles." The divorce that she asked for was granted her and Fish went hla way again. Through Justice Langdon of San Francisco, a friend of the amnes iac. scientists at Afodesto, Calif., heard of his case and became inter ested. Fish was persuaded to go to Modesto and submit himself to certain chiropractic experiments. The chiropractor who examined Fish discovered that several of his vertebrae were misplaced. He placd Fish on an operating table and began an ordinary chiropractic manipulation, with the result that his backbone was suddenly made straight. The efNct on the amnesiac was miraculous. The response of his mind was like the action of an electric light system when switch is thrown on- Old memories flood ed his mltad. He instinctively took up the life from which he had been torn by the automobile accident of Just before three years previous. the automobile wreck Fish had ____ _ _____ been, adding figures. He awoke from the’sbock "of the operation and took up his addition where he had left off. The psychological explanation given by Dr. Charlea ’S isst <. z ^'.'4 . • Ml • V® •-Ù .. # Mi •• wit The former Mra. Virginia Burnz-Fizh - » t '. ' « GEORGE LEANDER FISH do? Will some forgotten act one day rise up to tear my life to pieces? For ” the present, at beast—Mr. Fish can only take what others tall him—as the true story of that other UN. Nrs McCloud all appearance, hod knitted togeth er. But his memory was a void. George L. Fish, the man who had been struck by the automobile was gons. In hie place was another man who faced life In full o n es t e ■ion of bin powers, but who background of memory. was he I Only through documents George able to establish himself ss L. Fish. But depite this handicap, he started in business, built up new relationships, and was rapidly making a success of his new life. This new George Fish lived very quietly bnt hi« affairs prospered exceedingly. He was very fond of -dfsiffh ----1 exceeding1? ”T a<n<|r riattai ~ ** Mew travel and •* r^Jíaíd Loe A*«el- Orlem»*. hl, accident be ye Not Iona tBa marrie« now. The wonderful results obtained in this remarkable case are being accomplished by all competent Chiropractors in various other diseases. No matter what your ailment may be do not consider your case hopeless until you have tried Chiropractic. What it did in the above case it may do for you. DR. FOREST L. HOWARD CHIROPRACTOR I Both Phones 211-12-13 Tillamook Bldg. FREE Spinal Analysis and Consultation Adjustment will be given in the home if the patient is un able to come to the office. Eddy, Chiropractor, of what had happened to Fish is simple efnough. The displacement of his spine had pinched his memory cord and the resetting of It released this cord and It began to function again. The ifsychology of it is not so easy to explain. Scientists are not so certain of themselvee when they try to bring to the surface the thoughts that are sunk in subcon scious depths of the human mind. Psycho-analysts such as Freud, be lieve that the Impulses generated 2n this hidden dynomo of the mind are the determining impulse of life. The outward man is a mere silhou ette. Others declare that there are two natures in man which weave back and forth through light into darkness. But, returning to Fish, though he now remembered every detail of his life prior to his accident, the three-year interval became a total blank. As other memories had rushed in these had I rushed out. But this did not worry him at first. lie hastened to take up the old threads. He immediately got in touch with Mrs. McCloud, then in Rush ville. Ind. Accompanied by her father, Judge James A. Kratzer, she went west. After ten months of convalescence they werb mar- rled. Though friends had often told him of various things that had happened to him In his three for gotten years, he did not begin to dread their dark possibilities until I recently. He was in San Francls- , co with his wife to arrange the leg- i al steps connected with the adop- I tion of the former Mrs. McCloud's : two daughters. While going through courthouse records he stumbled u- i cross a record of his own divorce suit. Hte discovered to his amaze- m»nt that Mrs. Virginia Burns Fish. a patient in St. Francis hos- Pi tai, had been married to him and divorced from him. She was only a name to him—but he went back a little further and found marriage records. The divorcee charges, if true, stamped him as a “gay Lothario." H's was known to many women, It was charged. He recalled what Dr. Charles Eddy, the chiropractor who operated on him, had said: “The case of Fish is qnjs of the most unusual that has come to the attention of tire medical profession. So far as I can determine, he has lived the lives of two distinct per sonalities, so far as his conscious ness was concerned, and yet was successful in his business and pro fessional occupations in each. The retoratlon of his memory was al most lnManeous.” Fish began to speculate on that "other personality.” There was proof of one woman—and perhaps there had been others. Perhaps he had, started affairs In motion which would confound and amaze th» Fish of his present consclouAieae. As matters stood strange men werw always walking up to him and say ing, “Hello, Fish.” “Great guns!” said Fish, In talk ing over hie strange plight one day recently, “What did I do? I Could have done anything. I haven’t yet heard that I murdered anybody or anything nearly as serious, though ---- *■ sorn* rare pieces of folly are chalk- ed up against me. “I never knew I had been mar rled until 1 read it in th* papera at Bakersfield. In San Francisco I had already seen the record of my di- rorce. I wouldn't know the wo- 1 man if I saw her on the street, probably wouldn't have known a- bout her If I hadn't applied for ad- option papers. “I can’t help digging into the — . mystery. I suppose the aenalbl- thlng would be to call it a day and forget about it. But it fascinates rrre Any mention of the woman I married during the three years of forgetfulness Is very annoying to my wife. Yet people who have seen them both tell me there is an amazing renemblanc— and the pic tures seem to point to It strongly. "Among other things,' 'continued Fish, “I remembered, that I had seven sisters. Nice women too, all of them. When I got Into touch with them again I found that the other self—the amnesia man- had been to We them. I had only staid a night at the old home, It seems, and they fovnd me very queer. In fact, some of my friends go so far Weil as to say that I was crazy. I’ve to believe everything they say. But I wonder.” The consciousness of a precari ous position is always with Mr. Fish these days, happy though he Is with hie wife. Ho fears, with a sickening fear, a ghost from those voided three yearn. But depl to this possibility—and the further chance that he may itet excited some time, strain himself and relapse into am nesia -he is forever groping into those subconscious caverns of his mind—forever listening for a voice from hie forgotten UN.—Sunday Oregesifir. >S, i»2i. ■FENCER 8AT8 There la a prlnetple which la • bar against all Information, which is proof against all argument, and which eannot fail to heap a ma* I* •ver last I ng ignornaa* That prin ciple la condemnation before ln- Oaly truth ea* permanently pre vail, all alee must