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890:"Dr. Linda Hazzard Is Given Pardon"
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702:Fasting for the cure of disease
667:. Copernicus Books. pp. 33-35.
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340:Fasting for the Cure of Disease
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287:Linda Laura Hazzard was born
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795:"Starved in Sanitarium"
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198:2 to 20 years in prison
156:Samuel Chrisman Hazzard
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938:"Inflation Calculator"
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309:The Science of Fasting
303:some practitioners of
108:Linda Burfield Hazzard
1034:. September 30, 1911.
1219:Deaths by starvation
1049:. February 27, 1908.
995:Smithsonian Magazine
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334:(1908), followed by
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289:Lynda Laura Burfield
123:alternative medicine
119:Confidence trickster
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1165:Full report of the
970:on October 17, 2017
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801:. February 5, 1912.
545:restaurant founder
313:Edward Hooker Dewey
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220:Linda Laura Hazzard
110:"Starvation Doctor"
81:Cause of death
1149:Starvation Heights
1012:. August 14, 1911.
585:Earl Edward Erdman
566:Blanche B. Tindall
355:Olalla, Washington
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836:. Historylink.org
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673:978-1-4419-1368-5
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1169:appeal case
948:October 27,
904:December 4,
870:December 4,
589:L. E. Rader
423:In 1917, a
395:Walla Walla
95:Nationality
1239:Orthopaths
1178:Categories
974:January 2,
782:Olsen 2005
721:1006893429
651:References
556:Ida Wilcox
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351:sanitarium
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403:Governor
383:telegram
241:swindler
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99:American
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