Nurses Honored With Florence Nightingale Medal
Six American nurses receive the Florence Nightingale medal for distinguished service since 1914. The list: Helen Scott Hay Washington. Florence Merriam Johnson New York City. Martha M. Russell Boulder. Alma E. Foerster Chicago. Linda K. Meirs Boston. Mary E. Gladwin New York. Details cover training, Red Cross service in Europe and Russia, and wartime nursing leadership and deployments.
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Hav Plone
International Committee of the Red Cross
Geneva
America
Florence Nightingale
Florence
France
Germany
Europe
Ue Ragged Schools
London
Seutart
Red Cross Society
Helen Scott Hay
Washington
D. C
Florence Merriam Johnson
New York City
Martha M. Russell
Boulder
Colo
Alma E. Foerster
Chicago
Linda K. Meirs
Boston
Mass
Mary E. Gladwin
Miss Hay
American Red Cross Commission For Europe
North- Western University
Minois 1
Town State Hospital For the
County’ Instiations
Dunning
Pasadena Hospital
Miipols
Red Cross
Klef
Russia
Bureau
Ins
American Red Cross
Army School For Nursing
War Department
American Red Cross Commission
Balkan States
Johnson
Department of Nursing
Teachers’ College
Columbia University
Smith College
New York Hospital
Cornell University Medical Dispensary
Ithaca
N. Y
New York M. Y. A
B. H. Dispensary
Association For the Improvement of the
Harlem Hospital
Atlantic Division
Russell
American Red Cross Nursing Service
Atlante Division Department of Nursing
University Hospital
Miss Russell
Medical Hospital
New York
Norton Infirmary
Louisville
Henry Street
Providence
Pittsburgh
Sloane Maternity
Meirs
Army Nurse Corps
Jouy sur-Norin
Chateau Thierry
Toul
Pleury-sur-Aire
Marine Hospital
U. S. Public Health Service
Merrs
Philadelphia Hospital
Prince's Hye, Ear and Nose Hospital
Springfield
Pueblo
Coto
Mayo Protakers
Rochester
Minn
American Hospital
Mexico City
Unit “G
Fort Bliss
el Paso
Texas
Roumania
Gladwin
Nis
Serbia
Boston City Hospital
Woman's Hospital
Ohio
Shouldn't Be Old at 70
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley advocates longer life in Good Housekeeping League for Longer Life. He notes life expectancy and healthy efficiency are shorter than ideal, with two critical danger points in mortality: under one year and around seventy five.
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Harvey W. Wiley
Good Housekeeping
League For
United States
Humorous Local Snippets Spark Light and Nonsense
A collage of jokes and quips from newspapers and cartoons features a washing machine agent in a hamlet asking about life, a tavern landlord boasting busy days, and lighthearted exchanges about boarders, rising prices, and oddball misunderstandings. The playful chatter includes misheard phrases, eccentric characters, and tongue in cheek lines that echo vintage humor.
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Grudge
King Solomon in Feathers on the raven’s wily nature
The piece extols the raven as a wary clever bird famed in natural history. It notes its formidable beak used as weapon tool and carving knife, its omnivorous diet from worm to whale, and its habit of raiding nests and even newborn livestock when food is scarce. The text discusses intellect and cautions that ravens rarely attack humans.
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Noah
Elijah
Marine Glue Cement Improves Water Proofing and Flexibility
Marine glue is prepared by dissolving one part India rubber in crude benzine and mixing with two parts shellac and heat. The resulting cement is waterproof and elastic, useful in house construction and furniture. It bonds easily when warm and sets quickly as it cools, originally intended for shipboard use and well known in Europe.
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India
Europe
A Lady of Distinction and Burmese Ear Ornaments
An advertisement style snippet notes a lady’s refined image tied to perfume and Cuticura soap routine for clear skin. It then describes Burmese ear adornments with holes bored large to wear wood, jewels, or rolled precious metal. It closes with a cheeky remark on wife lectures on the platform.
New Use for the Phonograph and Odd Anecdotes
A garbled collection of sayings about a phonograph related to Coney Island and a merchant, plus miscellaneous quotes. The text references hiring skepticism, selling glasses to eyes on a potato, and a reluctant host. It mentions Dickens Hawthorne Pepys and the Garter, with a mix of humor and social commentary. The piece presents a collage of fragments and remarks rather than a single coherent story.
Expert Mice Catchers Report Barn Owl Pest Control
A Brooklyn Eagle clipping notes that barn owls with young defend nests by catching mice at about 12 minute intervals. Hunted by both sexes across dawn and dusk, a total of around 40 mice per day is a conservative estimate for a single nesting owl pair.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Gargoyles and their Gothic role in cathedral design
The piece notes gargoyles as drain spouts on roofs, once common in Gothic architecture. It mentions modern metal pipes replacing them and references the famous gargoyles at Notre Dame as notable examples.
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Notre Dame
Old Cup Carved of Wood and Noted Antiquity
A century and a half old wooden cup owned by Airs Margaret Schultheis of Montebello Park Baltimore, exhibited at Vienna 1776 and Philadelphia 1876, crafted by L. R. Wildenforce, with a silver cup inside and Bacchus and nymphs carved on the lid. Also note a report on iron extraction from street dirt rugs walls roofs and even inhabitants’ skin in smoke and dust studies.
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Margaret Schultheis
Montebello Park
Harford Road
Baltimore
Vienna
Philadelphia
American Forestry Magazine
Washington, D.C
L. R. Wildenforce
Bacchus
Ion
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