The Prosecution of Henry Kissel in the Roaring Twenties in Halifax

AuthorConstance Backhouse
Pages79-103
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THE PROSECUTION OF HENRY
KISSEL IN THE ROARING
TWENTIES IN HALIFAX
HK   young man whose future brimmed with promise. A
nativeNewYorkerbornintheBronxtwentysixyearoldKisselwasinhis
nalyearattheprestigiousDalhousieMedicalSchoolinHalifax Only the
beststudentswereselectedtointernatthecitysVictoriaGeneralHospital
and Henry Kissel was one of the favoured few.Whenhewasntatthehos
pitalhesharedacomfortabletworoomatintheWestminsterApartments
at the corner of Morris and Church streets with another Dalhousie medical
student from New York, Irving Marks.
Senior medical students were immersed in classes and rounds at the
hospital, but Henry Kissel never let his studies interfere with his social life.
His fashionable haircut and eyewear betrayed his dashing sense of style.
Round hornrimmed glasses were much in vogue meant to produce the
“academic look that was derigueuroncampusthatyearTrendseerslike
KisselfoundinsucientscopeforrevelryatDalhousiesstrictlychaperoned
student dances, where smoking was prohibited and a midnight curfew pre
vailed. Henry Kissel preferred t he public dance hall at the Armouries, where
he could mix with a looser, more boisterous crowd. That was where, in the
latesummerofhemetandmingledwithwomenlikeEthelMachan
BytheRoaringTwentieswereinfullswingpartofanirresistible
surge of rebellion sweeping across North America. The First World War had
ended, ushering in a bold and vivacious new decade to chase away the hor
ricmemoriesoftheshaeredbaleeldsTheMaritimeregionwasslower
to experience the optimism, having been crippled by economic instability
フトCarnalCrimes
Dalhousie University Archives Photographic Collection
HenryKisselDalhousieMedicalSchool

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