Girl 19 Wins Fight With Paralysis at Samaritan Hospital
Miss Betty Carey of 2 Plum Avenue was discharged from Samaritan Hospital after partial paralysis from infantile paralysis in May. She began Sister Kenney treatment on May 27, using hot packs and muscle re-education. The method improved her back and legs. she will continue hot packs at home and visit the hospital thrice weekly.
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Betty Carey
Plum Avenue
Samaritan Hospital
Sister Kenney
Miss Carey
Joseph Carey
Hdna MacMillan
Kenney
Miss MacMillan
Edna MacMillan
Sister Kenny
Australia
Kenny
Trumble Heads Purple Heart Officer Election
Leo H. Trumble was elected commander of the Arthur Wills Chapter No. 17 Military Order of the Purple Heart at the annual election on State Street. He served on the Mexican border, overseas with the 105th Infantry, and earned the Purple Heart and Oak Leaf Cluster. Also elected were William A. Long, Frank J. Connery, and others to key posts. trustees named include John J. Tower, Thomas Mulcahy, Timothy Collins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo H. Trumble
Corp
Arthur Wills
State Street
Trumble
Thomas J. Mulcahy
Second New York Regiment
105Th Infantry
Dickenbush
Hindenburg
Francis A. Kelley
William A. Long
Frank J. Connery
George Dewey Caswell
James F. Cox
Col
Lester Higbee
Thomas J. Jackson
Charles H. Burkhart
Otto Krause
Germans Seize Polish Children as Hostages
The Polish Telegraph Agency in London reports German forces have seized fifty children as hostages in Warsaw. Most were taken from a tuberculosis sanitarium in Otowek, a Warsaw suburb, amid widespread executions and imprisonments shrinking the city’s population from 1,500,000 to 950,000.
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New York
Poland
London
Warsaw
Otowek
Soldier Pvt George Bowen listed as killed in action
Abandon Hope For Missing Soldier Pvt George Bowen of 1442 119th Street, reported missing in action a year ago during landing operations in Africa, is now officially listed as killed in action. His family, formerly from Cohoes, have been informed by the War Department. Bowen, one of five brothers in service, had lived with his brother Thomas A. Bowen in Lansingburg. He graduated from St Bernard's Academy in Cohoes and enlisted two years ago. The ship he served on was reported lost in action during the African landing. six Bowen brothers remain in the service across Navy and Army units.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Bowen
119Th Street
Africa
War Department
Bowen
Cohoes
Edward Bowen
Thomas A. Bowen
Lansingburg
St. Bernard’s Academy
Army
The
Seabees
South Pacific
John Bowen
Corp
Donald E. Bowen
Coast Artillery
North Carolina
Rodney
Hollidaysburg
William Bowen
Cohees
Ball bearings tested more than diamonds in war production
In Springfield, Lowell Smith of Package Machinery Co. explains ball bearings used in Navy gyro compasses undergo harsher microscopic and heat testing than diamonds. Tiny balls one sixteenth inch in diameter see 70 to 80 percent rejections. Testers, mostly women, work in a windowless, air conditioned room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Mass
Lowell Smith
Package Machinery Co
Navy
Mint Oils From Indiana Muck Soil Dominate U S Output
Two thirds of all peppermint and spearmint oils produced in the United States come from muck soil in northern Indiana, where extensive acreage sustains a major regional oil industry and agricultural niche.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Indiana
Glens Falls Man Sentenced for Draft Board Violation
Paul R. Sherwood aged 18 was found guilty by a Syracuse U S district court jury of violating the Selective Service law. Judge Fred erick H Bryant sentenced him to three years ten months in prison for failing to answer an Oct T draft board summons. The item notes the British Y M C A operates 175 hostels for farm workers.
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Paul R. Sherwood
Glens Falls
U.S. District Court
Syracuse
Frederick H. Bryant
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Peerless
Eercrest
Mouton
South Amer 14
Salon
Pvt
Boxer’s
Daffner's
Car
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