Little Brown Church in the Vale Celebrates Centenary
The Little Brown Church in the Vale in Nashua Iowa marks 100 years since Dr William S Pitts wrote The Little Brown Church in the Vale on June 14 1857 The centennial observance Sunday features a daylong program of religious services prayer and music The origin tale ties Pitts meeting Ann Elize Warren in Madison Wisconsin to Fredericksburg Iowa and Bradford Illinois where the church site later stood Original sale of the song earned about 25 dollars to pay for Pitts medical school entry
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Little Brown Church
the Vale
William S. Pitts
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Utterback
Pitts
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Fredericksburg
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H. M. Higgins
Chicago
Fifteen Year Old Henderson Short of Long Bicycle Trip
Short of his goal Charles T. Henderson, 15, from Greensboro nearly completed a 200 mile bicycle journey to Carolina Beach. Police said he ran away Tuesday, traveled 190 miles in 51 hours, and was picked up 10 miles from his destination. He finished the trip in a patrol car after leaving his bike by the roadside.
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Carolina Beach
N. C
Charles T. Henderson
Greensboro
Young Henderson
Doctor Pitts Life and Fredericksburg Ties Remain
The physician stayed in Fredericksburg after graduation to scrape by and practice medicine until 1906. Mrs. Pitts died in 1886 at age 50. Dr. Pitts died in 1918 at his son William Stanley Pitts’s Brooklyn home, with his remains buried near his wife in Fredericksburg.
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Fredericksburg
Pitts
William Stanley Pitts
Brooklyn
N. Y
Argentine Teen Receives Kidney Transplant From Infant
In Buenos Aires on June 14 17 the kidneys of a deceased infant were transplanted into an Argentine teenager at the Costa Bueno clinic in a last ditch effort to cure his acute nephritis. A clinic spokesman said the operation was performed and reported the teen's condition.
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Buenos Aires
Costa Buero
Survival in Peril Stirs Discussions on Treatment
Fragmentary report notes low success rates for kidney transplants and calls for urgent medical debate. Faint references to survival challenges and possible policy implications appear, with no clear dates or named institutions.
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