Riverside Sanitarium Opens in Monroe with Modern Equipment
The Riverside Sanitarium on Lover's Lane near McHenry Street opens for public inspection. The two story brick hospital with ten lots, capacity fifty beds, features eight private rooms on the first floor, ten on the second, two operating rooms, an obstetrical department and a nursery, electric sterilizer, incubator, and a silent light patient call system.
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New Riverside Sanitarium
Lover’s Lane
McHenry Street
Ouachita River
Monroe
Ouachita
Tripp
Riverside Sanitarium
Ohio
McKessen
Wilmot Castle
Simmons
Riverside
Three Units in Final Plans for Local Hospital Opening
River side Sanitarium in Monroe Louisiana advances with three planned units. Rev Frank Tripp and local physicians pushed the project. Ground broke September 2 at Lovers Lane and McHenry Street for a nonsectarian Protestant controlled hospital open to the public.
Monroe Public Generous In The Gifts To House
The Riverside Sanitarium thanks Monroe city and nearby residents for gifts to equip the new institution. The Women’s Protestant League of Ouachita parish donated linens and window shades, the Women’s Missionary Union of First Baptist Church provided silverware, and the Women’s Presbyterian Church furnished the reception room. A note bequest from G B Cooley of the Monroe Steam Laundry sent two refrigerators for the diet kitchen. The Monroe Knight Templars have contributed as well.
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Riverside Sanitarium
Women’s Protestant League
Ouachita Parish
Women’s Missionary Union
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First Baptist Church
G. B. Cooley
Monroe Steam Laundry
Monroe Knight Templars
Donors Furnish Rooms for Riverside Sanitarium
Riverside Sanitarium and its founder furnished one ward. The Mc Henry family funded an operating room in memory of Dr. McHenry. Private rooms were funded by Judge and Mrs. Pency Sandel Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Handy Tidwell Bros Monroe Drug Co W M A of Clarks Baptist Church Monroe Royal Arch Chapter No 18 Mr and Mrs C B Gle Clark s La Temporary donor plaques will be placed on doors until bronze tablets arrive from the factory.
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Pency Sandel
B. B. Handy
Tidwell Bros
Monroe Drug Co
Clarks
Clarks’ Baptist Church, Monroe Royal Arch Chapter No. 18, Mr. and Mgg.~c.b
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Riverside Sanitarium founder Rev Tripp's storied path
Rev Frank Tripp founder of Riverside Sanitarium was born in Scott county Arkansas thirty years ago. He grew up near the Indian Territory, traces Choctaw and English ancestry, studied at Ouachita Baptist colleges, and led multiple congregations guiding church building programs before his current pastorate at Monroe First Baptist Church.
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Riverside Sanitarium
Scott County
Arkansas
Wilds
Indian Territory
Tripp
Oklahomay
Ouachita "Baptist College
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Oklahoma
Baptis University
Shawnee
Okla
Ouachita Baptist College
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Ouachita Baptist University
Yale
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First Baptist Church
Idabelle
Monroe First Baptist Church
Reverend Tripp to Lead Monroe Church Soon
The Rev. Tripp will move with his family to Monroe January 1 1921 to take charge of a church whose rapid growth has been highlighted by over nine hundred fifty additions to membership since he assumed leadership. He also aids the Louisiana State Baptist Orphanage in relocating to Monroe with cottages on a model farm near DeSiard road and a $125 000 value. He serves on several denominational boards, leads local Kiwanis, and manages Riverside Sanitarium planned to open on his thirtieth birthday March 12.
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Tripp
Louisiana State Baptist Orphanage
Monroe
Lake Charles
DeSiard Road
Southern Baptist Conference
Grand Street
Alexandria
State Baptist Convention
Shreveport
Cony
Louisiana Baptist Vention
Louisiana Baptist
Kiwanis of
Ju Protective Association
Side Sanitarium
Riverside
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Louiziana
Lovers Lane
Louisiana
S & Corporation
Giana
Smith de Outfitters
Monroe LA
Geninall
Mankind
Monroe Surniture Co
the House of Service
Chase-Amman Drug Company
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