Sept. 18, birthdays for Jada Pinkett Smith, Lance Armstrong, Serge Ibaka
Brooklyn Today
Good morning, Brooklyn. Today is the 261st day of the year.
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ON THIS DAY in 1905, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Wants Conservator for Dr. Frank Freel: Mother of Well-Known Brooklynite Desires Him Committed to Sanitarium.”
The article focused on the doctor and son of a well-known Brooklynite who began hallucinating and was deemed as “unsafe.”
“Mrs. Freel says that her son’s habits became bad and she has been keeping him in a bachelor’s establishment with several servants,” the Eagle reported. “She says that he is now unsafe and asks that his liberty be taken away and that he be committed to a sanitarium.”