DAILY DOZEN Prem Medical Society of Pennsylvania
United States hospitals last year cared for 12 545 010 patients about one tenth of the population. They admitted at a rate one every 248 seconds and performed operations every 51 seconds. Hospitals reported 1 670 598 births and 295 660 more admissions than in 1941. There are 6 245 registered hospitals with 1 383 827 beds and 71 448 bassinets. Pennsylvania has 352 hospitals with 25 234 patients admitted and more than half of patients operated on, a share matched by no other state except one.
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United States
Pennsylvania
Bradford Youth Sister Meet In Algiers Street
Bradford April 15 a joyful wartime meeting occurred on a crowded Algiers street as Lieutenant Helen Hinckley US Army Nurses Corps spotted Sergeant Bart E Hinckley US Army Air Force. Parents Mr and Mrs C F Hinckley learned of the reunion from a letter Sergeant Hinckley sent noting the unusual event and a four day pass granted by his commander. He said the reunion was wonderful and the two had not seen each other in over a year since his induction March 4.
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Bradford
Algiers
Streoh
Helen Hinckley
United States Army Nurses Corps
Bart E. Hinckley
United States Army Air Force
C.F Hinckley
Hinckley
Congressional Confusion and War Time Action Urged
A reflective piece contrasts the U S political system with Britain s parliamentary efficiency noting Congress paralysis amid near equal party balance and war funding. It argues for stronger executive action, warns of drift, and suggests Americans wish for more realistic government functioning. It also touches on optimism and domestic progress amid wartime strain. It closes with a rural anecdote about preserving foods and a farmer s wife quipping about eating and canning Tomatoes.
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United States
Washington
Congress
Executive Department
Great Britain
Britain
Quiz questions from classified page survey
A reader sent in a set of seven trivia questions referencing historical topics. The items ask about treaties, postal regulations, committee chairmen, state names, weight systems, authors, presidential elections, marriage law, edible oysters, and the 16th Amendment, indicating a newspaper quiz page with mixed historical and factual prompts.
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Oregon Territory
United States
Great Britain
Mame
Ives Committee
Pennsylvania
United Mine Warkere
Jack Benny
Jictor
Come Isn
Miwesteen
Long Beach request for Corry boys addresses and reunion hopes
A reader asks for Purpura and other Corry men stationed near Long Beach and Los Angeles. She seeks addresses to arrange an old fashioned get together for service members and local Corry residents, noting she hasn’t met many. The note mentions home town news and Alaska shrimp season extended to April 16 by the Interior Department.
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Corey
Purpura
Long Beach
Corry
Los Angeles
Cory
Corry Ever Fing Journal
California
Alaska
U. S. Department of the Interior
Scarlet Sin Slayer To Return To Erie County Jail
Samuel Weed known as the scarlet sin slayer of his wife and two children will be returned to Erie county prison on Thursday. Sherif Fred Lamberton and two deputies were en route from the Western penitentiary Parview with Lynn Sloan a noted robber deemed insane. Weed has been detained at Parview since 1936 for the criminal insane.
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Scarlet Sin
Eag
Samuel Weed
Erie County
Sherif
Fred Lamberton
Western Penitentiary
Parview
Lynn Sloan
Tarview
Lamberton
Weed
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Greyhound Post House
Vial
Superior Cleaning Co
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Dial
Greyhound Lines
Brandon Suits
Brandon
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