Frontier Nursing Service brings care to Kentucky hills
A study by Anne Winslow details how a small group of women nurses established frontier clinics in Leslie Perry Clay and Bell counties Kentucky. For six years they provided midwifery nursing surgical medical dental hospital and social services to 9 counties with 15,000 people lacking physicians. The service operated 28 nurses nine centers an 18 bed hospital while 9,736 patients were served in 1,851 families at a total cost of 100400.49.
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Washington
United States
Committee
America
Kentucky
Frontier Nursing Service
Anne Winslow
Leslie
Perry
Clay
Bell
Mary Breckenridge
Miss Winslow
Leslie County
Counies
of the Frontier Service
Jobless man paid $1000 for finding $25000 jewels
Charles Kane a 40 year old jobless farmhand found a valise with jewels worth $25,000 along the Bronx river parkway near Hartsdale. He flagged motorists begged for 15 cents and used a phone number in the valise. It belonged to Mrs. Robert T. Stone of New York whose sister Miss Edyth McCoon drove the car. Insurance agents paid Kane $1,000.
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New York
Charles Kane
Bronx River Parkway
Hartsdale
Dickels
Robert T. Stone
Edyth McCoon
Federal prison near Anthony to have no walls or guards
The $850,000 federal detention home near Anthony will lack outside walls guard towers alarms and bloodhounds. Architect TD Brandt says the government does not contemplate riots or breaks, challenging standard security expectations.
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Anthony
N. BM
TD. J. Brandt
Large old size money hoard tied up billions across country
Old size paper currency totaling about 873 million dollars remains scattered nationwide with over 578 million in hoards. Bank holdings have shifted to smaller notes and officials say it is too early to determine how much is hoarded versus lost or removed from circulation through other means.
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Woakington
Banke
Treasury
Soviet Ex Stammerers Speak at Convention
A conference of ex stammerers in Moscow heard Professor Vsevolod Kostchenko estimate two million speech defect cases in the country and declare most curable. He noted that difficult terms include tractor and pintiletka as the five year plan.
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Moscow
Wich
Vsevelod Kostchenko
Youth and Girl Will Make Test of Love
Kansas City romance unfolds as Kathleen Stewart fifteen and Paul T. Lange Jr. elope with parental approval for a five to six year contest of love. If Cupid wins, they marry after schooling. if not, separation, with Kathleen’s father sending her to Vassar and Paul to Kansas University.
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Kansas City
Kathleen Stewart
Robert W. Stewart
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
Paul T. Lange, Jr
Elgitean
Robert Anderson
Cupid
Hla
Barstow School For Girls
Paul
Kathleen
Paul T. Lange
Robert G. Stewart
New York
Vassar College
University of Kansas
Merriam
Kan
German sailcycle inventor tests light craft at speed
Wolfgang von Bolton, a young German engineer, takes a trial spin on his new sailcycle weighing 75 pounds. He claims can reach 40 miles an hour in an average wind.
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Wolfgang von Bolton
Stillwater Vets Form a New Last Man's Club
Stillwater Minnesota hosts a new Last Man’s club formed by World War II veterans joining the Stillwater American Legion post. The Bully Beef club will award a can of bully beef from France as its trophy, to be opened by the last survivor perhaps 50 years hence.
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Stillwater
Stillwater Post
France
Frissell
Browntown
Mino
Air Pilots Drop Papers to Lonely Homesteaders
El Paso flyers Johnnie Martin and Paul Carpenter fly between El Paso and Los Angeles. They are greeted daily by lonely homesteaders, know most by name via letters of introduction, and drop papers to them. A woman asked them to correct the time on the next paper because her clock had stopped.
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el Paso
Texas
Johnnie Martin
Paul Carpenter
Los Angeles
Martin
Carpenter
Radio Proves Its Worth 2 , at Rounding Up Bandits Oklahoma City
The Oklahoma county crime detection radio station KGPH has proven successful and will be expanded into a statewide system. It aims to capture bank robbers, a rising menace, with increased power to 250 watts. It began as a municipal detective agency for Oklahoma City.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma County
KGPH
Farmer’s calf hide brings slim payout at Topeka tannery
St Marys Kan A Kongae farmer Ralph Hilton sent a calf hide to a Topeka tannery. The hide sold for 60 cents and the freight cost 55 cents leaving Hilton with a small 5 cent return after a 6 cent check. The note reflects low mood over the odd deal with the carcass also killed.
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St. Marys
Kan
Ralph Hilton
Hilton
Topeka
Orchardists Seek Fight Cost Cuts
Illinois extension service promotes an eight point program to cut production costs and improve profits for 1982. Thirty counties host meetings to advise fruit growers on economical spraying tree thinning culling reduced cultivation and space appropriate machine use and bulk material purchasing.
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Ilinois College of Agriculture
University of Ilinois
R. & Marsh
Bindweed Extermination Tip From Montreal Herald
The Montreal Herald notes bindweed is very hard to eradicate and hoeing alone is ineffective. Spraying with a sodium chlorate solution weakens the weed, with four ounces per gallon covering about 100 square feet, and increasing strength if leaves survive. Continuous spraying may prevent potatoes from growing while attempts continue.
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Montreal Herald
Terracing Made Easy by a Grayson County Farmer
Charles J Holder of Grayson County Texas lost topsoil on a one acre field and faced unusable ditches. With a steel ditcher and four mules plus his young son he built four terraces nearly a mile long in five days. Erosion stopped and fertilizer now stays on the field for crops.
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Charles J. Holder
Grayson County
Texas
Holder
Cattle and Sheep Feeding Trends Across Regions
Cattle on feed in the corn belt is 5 percent below last year while eastern states show 8 percent higher. Nebraska reports a 20 percent drop, western states 17 percent down, and nationwide sheep on feed up 14 percent. Nebraska feeds 800000 head of sheep this year amid warmer conditions.
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Corn Belt
Mississippi River
Nebraska
United States
Alfalfa and lime requirements across soils
Alfalfa needs more lime than other forage crops. Most eastern soils except limestone types require lime, and even limestone soils in areas like Shengadogh valley are often surface acidic. The lime form is not crucial as long as calcium oxide is supplied. Fields not previously limed usually need at least one ton of burned lime or its equivalent.
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Shengadogh Valley
Bayer Aspirin Relief for Headache and Pain
When fatigue strikes or nerves nag Bayer Aspirin offers quick relief for headaches neuralgia neuritis and rheumatic pains. Take one tablet to block a looming headache two to three for colds and keep it handy at home office or while traveling.
Automobiles Barred Around Transatlantic Radio Stations
Automobiles are banned within the grounds of transatlantic radio telephone stations to prevent interference with delicate instruments. Only carrier drawn vehicles may deliver goods, and vehicles connected to the station are shielded to avoid disruption. A journeyman and beggar exchange quips about politeness and trade. Wing Commander Kingsford Smith recounts a dinner tale of a recruit who studied aeronautics but ends up cleaning the colonel’s wife’s electric refrigerator.
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Kingsford Smith
New York
Halifax
Wrong Place He I'm groping for words
She finds the awkward exchange humorous as she jokes about words not being at her neck, playfully teasing about verbal fumbling in a light, cheeky street chat.
Backyard Peoples Break Ranks Against TNR Nation
A cleat of citizens challenge a political bloc as backyard communities push back on rapid national reforms. Local organizers mobilize residents, citing overreach, while officials promise safeguards and measured change.
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Thiancourt
Lfe
Italy
Portugal
Hayden
Illinois
Alfalfa
Fellows Syrup
U. S. Army
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Iie
Ft Huachuca
Arla
Scott
Scott & Bowne
Bloomfield
N.J
Harold F. Ritchie & Co., Inc
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the von Kashna
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Louieville
Goll
Doan
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