Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oshkosh, Wis., Mrs. John Putzer, 41-year-old wife of a WPA worker, gave birth to her sixth pair of twins, won a pair of beds from a local cinemansion which had offered one bed to the mother of the first baby born after the opening of The Country Doctor. Said fruitful Mrs. Putzer, mother of 17: "We never pick names now until we know how many we're going to need...
...problem now was to move a ship a fifth of a mile long and 118 ft. wide down 14 miles of goosenecked channel only 300 feet broad. In at least three places there was less than four feet of water between Queen Mary's keel and the river bed...
...equalize risks, members are admitted to Associated Hospital Service only in blocks of ten. After they join, they may bring in their spouses and children by paying 3?-a-day insurance for each. For their $10 a year members get up to 21 days bed, board, examinations (including Xray) and treatment in a hospital, if their doctors order it. Patients pay their doctors separately. If a member has an accident anywhere in the U. S. or Canada outside the New York area and is taken to a local hospital, the New York service pays part of his hospital bill...
...strife of Civil War was foreshadowed by the abortive slave insurrection fomented by John Brown of Ossawattomie at Harpers Ferry, Va. Wounded, captured, the mad old man was brought in his bed to court at Charlestown, Va. (now Charles Town, W. Va.), to hear sentence passed. A New York Tribune reporter was nearby. "Brown sat up in bed, while the verdict was rendered." he telegraphed his paper. "The jury found him guilty of treason, advising and conspiring with slaves and others to rebel, and for murder in the first degree. Brown lay down quickly and said nothing. There...
...given five performances in St. Louis last fortnight, cleared $1,300. Its 85 actors took busses to Gillespie last week at the behest of a miners' priest named Rev. John Goff, who had been preaching anti-Communist sermons in restive Macoupin County, Ill., had been bombed out of bed for his pains. Father Goff thought that Storm-Tossed showed the Church had something better to offer than Communism...