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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1949
Page
8
Edward F. Cook of Pittsburgh faced long nights, illness, and a strained home after the market crash. A wife's plea led him to quit worrying, work cheerfully, and rebuild his life. 15 years later he remains a store manager with a healthy home life. Roosevelt quote reinforces national caution.
The Will County Health Department expands to eleven nurses with the permanent appointment of Miss Bennett A Jaeger of Winthrop Minnesota. A field training student from Mount Pleasant Iowa also joins for three months of practical training. Miss Jaeger brings four years Army Nurse Corps experience and two years in university hospital nursing plus a public health degree. Miss Ardith L Wilson starts three months of field training, holding Army Nurse Corps service and hospital experience. The department now includes a supervisor assistant supervisor and nine staff nurses and remains a graduate field training center accredited by the University of Minnesota and University of Chicago.
The narrator notes annual swallows migrating to a chimney to raise young. They tolerate the birds because their insect hunting is beautiful, though the twig nestschar are fragile and spill into the fireplace. An instance of a swallow family landing in the parlor is described.
Narrator recalls tending birds during winter and early spring, rescuing nestlings, and observing chickadees and downy woodpeckers. He notes varied bird personalities, sharing behavior, and the ease of taming chickadees to eat from the hand, all framed as sociological insight from Perennial Harvest by Philip Hillyer Smith.
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