Word: deafness
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...advertisement is cleverly worded but it claims too much. My acquaintance with people having "the poorest of ears" runs into the thousands, not one of whom has been helped by the "aid" advertised. Some 1,500 children with hearing more or less defective attend the schools for the deaf in various parts of the country?several being located in and near New York. There are 50,000 graduates and former pupils of these schools living in this country who would know of the aid if it was worth what is claimed for it. The vendors of the "aid" could...
Church Mission to the Deaf, St. Louis...
There are deaf people who cannot hear with anything. If the auditory nerve is dead, sounds mean nothing. But, for hundreds of thousands of people who do have some hearing, the Acousticon is just the difference between despair and success. The users of the Acousticon are people in every profession, business and occupation...
...your subscriber is really interested in learning what has been done for the past 20 years for the deaf people, and what is being done now, there are numerous sources to which he can apply for the information...
...proprietor of the puppet show, an Italian with a heart as big as an ox, and perhaps a head of the same quality, marries an elfin, wistful sprite of a wife a few minutes before charging off to war. On his return, he is deaf from the conflict, enabling his wife to carry on her languishing conversations with her ad interim lover...