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Hardest hit were New York (946 cases), North Carolina (441) and Kentucky (341). The outbreak hit relatively lightly in New York City (177 cases), but it struck with heavy force at Buffalo, which had nearly twice as many cases. Other cities showing an alarming polio rise: Pittsburgh (a record-tying 56 cases), Detroit...
...Bodewash: from the French - bois-de-vache. Western U.S.-buffalo chips...
...They Were. Some of the letter writers: a Buffalo truck driver who had been in the New York National Guard for nine years; a Dartmouth graduate of 21; a 30-year-old Iowa farmer who had been frail and sickly all his life and who had never been away from home overnight before he joined the Army; a hotel manager of 23 who had his own orchestra; an automobile mechanic; a 24-year-old reporter on the Shelby, N.C. Daily Star; a 27-year-old employe of the National Shawmut Bank in Boston; a 24-year-old fur worker from...
...Correspondent Norton-Taylor's favorite service acquaintances felt the same way about home. Red Quigley became a father at sea, and when the baby daughter's ringlet came from home it was bright red and father Quigley was very proud. Karl Kawa was a married machinist from Buffalo who had made a little model of the house he planned to build back home; the roof came off so that he could look inside...
...lure swarms of emigrants to the west. Jay Cooke's Northern Pacific publicity agent blanketed Europe with brochures describing the Northwest as "a vast wilderness waiting like a rich heiress to be appropriated and enjoyed." Adventurous easterners, meantime, found occasional diversion on the long trip west by shooting buffalo...