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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1925
Page
5
In Chapter 22 The Drouth the long August heat yields no rain across the lake region as September and October pass. Rivers fail and streams dry while the gorge pulls water from the lake. Buffalo suffers a contaminated water supply and people abandon the city amid widespread drought impacts.
The text describes a severe water crisis around the Great Lakes with shipping disrupted by lake level drops. Baltic shipping moves to upper lakes while rail and canal routes ferry water from the Atlantic and Mississippi valleys. Farms, dairies, and stock suffer. many abandon wells as demand for clean water rises and relief efforts struggle to cope.
Beulah, newly free, rushes to aid in a typhoid epidemic at Cleveland then travels to Buffalo with Celestine. She receives a room and simple furnishings and is assigned to the children's unit while Celestine helps in the kitchen and Beulah serves on duty.
Advertised remedy Emerald Oi claimed to reduce gland swelling and dissolve goitre by daily application. The ad promised cleansing of germs and secretions, rapid healing without scarring, with directions for use and a two ounce bottle.
Beulah helps a French woman, Celestine, reunite with her mother in a New York hospital. A war refugee, Celestine had been separated from her mother after a German raid. the distraught mother is healed and the two embrace as Beulah concedes to arrange the final reunion with the Red Cross aid.
Beulah leaves the room to head nurse and arranges for Celestine and her mother to use her former room. She will stay at a nearby hotel during off duty hours as all hospital rooms are filled. Celestine's mother is also to be accommodated.
Brief excerpt notes a request for kitchen help for two, with plans awaiting arrangements and a shortage of staff. Mentions to place an ad in the Chronicle Telegram Wart columns for assistance.
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