Jefferson County San Is Born to Fight TB Plague
Dr Merrit arrives in Jeffersonville and meets Edgar Robinson a dying TB patient. With no hospital within thirty miles and the poor farm unwilling to take contagious cases Merrit and hotel keeper Burroughs build a shelter in the woods where Robinson dies weeks later. Merrit pledges to stay until a sanatorium is established noting Michigan faces 38000 consumptives and only 2000 beds.
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Merrit
Jeffersonville
Burroughs
Doc
Jack-Pines
Edgar Robinson
Robinson
Eolgar
Jefferson
Jefferson County
Michigan
Michigan, Tuberculosis Association
Midgar Robinson
Tommy and Frances Mary at Howell Sanatorium School
Nine year old Tommy with bone tuberculosis attends a tuberculosis sanatorium school in Howell Michigan. Despite deformity and poverty he smiles and learns alongside other afflicted children who face crowded conditions and limited treatment. Christmas Seals Fight Tuberculosis.
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Tommy
Lfe
Frances Mary
Howell
Monikha
Michigan
You
Crowell Mirrors Life Charcoal of a one-man Lyceum program
Joseph Crowell, a leading New England impersonator, performs a tour under Interstate auspices. His act features rapid character changes using wigs and makeup, delivering stories, songs, dialogue, and pianologues in a single engaging variety program.
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Joseph Crowell
New England
Mr. Crowell
Lyceum
Bib and Tray Cloth Gift Promises Joy and Peace
An oilcloth bib and tray cloth decorated with bright balloons and an angular elephant will delight the youngest child and reassure the mother at mealtime. The cream mottled cloth features a neck binding of white tape that ties. One of Joseph Crowell’s characters, The Suffragette, is praised for its humor and will soon appear on the Lyceum course. Buy a Ford and spend the difference.
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Joseph Crowell
Lyceum
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Tuberculosis Society of
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Crowell
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Opera House
Saline
Royal Terrace Orchestra
Bill of Dance
C. S. Wickens
Oph. D
W. Michigan Ave
Ypsilanti
Layher & Wenger
South
Ann Arbor
Doose Brothers
Dodge Brothers
Joseph H. Thompson
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