GoKawiilDamn Interesting Revisits 1906 Lower East Side Pharmacy Standoff Over Adenoid Surgeries
A Damn Interesting feature recounts the ordeal of pharmacist Edmund Lawall, whose Manhattan drug store became the scene of a violent 1906 confrontation involving a fleeing doctor, an armed young man, and an enraged crowd of Yiddish-speaking immigrants. The piece situates this dramatic episode within the broader, little-known history of mass adenoid and tonsil operations performed on immigrant children in early 20th-century New York.