Legion forms home for war veterans' children near Flint
Michigan American Legion plans a six acre site 20 miles northeast of Flint to house and educate orphans and dependents of veterans. The American Legion Billet will place groups of six to ten children with a mother chosen from widows of veterans, in cottages, with care, food, and schooling through age 16. The project, funded by the region, follows prior welfare advances and a Roosevelt Memorial hospital, and is slated to start in spring.
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Detroit
Associated Press
Michigan Department of the Ambrican Legion
Flint
Michigan Department
National Legion
Camp Custer
Battle Creek
Roosevelt Memorial Hospital
New Ventre
Michigan Legionaries
American Legion Billet
Paul A. Martin
Jattle Creek
Mich
Legion
Martin
Genesee, Lapeer
Tuscaloosa
Gorgas Institute to Clear Tropics of Disease in Panama
Chicago reports the Gorgas Institute of Tropical Medicine will establish a base in Old Panama with the cornerstone laid February 18 by President Belisario Porras. The project enlists the American College of Surgery to work across Central and South American nations.
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Chicago
Tropics
Gorgas Institute of Tropical Medicine
Old
Panama
Belisario Porras
American College of Surgery
Gorgas Institute for Tropical Diseases Planned in Panama
Panama announces a memorial to Gen Gorgas whose work ended yellow fever and malaria aiding Panama Canal. Institute on old exposition site near Santo Tomas hospital will use lab facilities and a $500000 first building with a $5 million endowment aimed to fund researchers from the Americas. Expeditions will study tropical diseases and a Gorgas School of Sanitation will train health workers in Tuscaloosa Alabama.
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Gen. Gorgas
Panama
Panama Canal
Porras
Panama Exposition
Santo Tomas Hospital
United States
Canada
Central
South America
Tropics
Gorgas School of Sanitation
Tuscaloosa
Alabama
Doctors to convene in High Point for Tri-State Medical meeting
Physicians from the Carolinas and Virginia will visit High Point on February 20 and 21 for the Tri-State Medical Society gathering. Secretary Frank J. Sizemore of the chamber of commerce said today that each physician would receive an invitation from the chamber.
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Carolinas
Virginia
High Point
Tri- State Medical Society
Frank J. Sizemore
Chamber of Commerce
North Carolina Road Map and High Point Facts
A trimmed Pacific Northwest style note compares U.S. winter months December January February with England’s November December January, mentioning North Carolina and High Point. The item records a road map context and regional geographic reference points.
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Ber of Commerce
North Carolina
High Point
United States
England
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