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...news presented two mysteries: 1) how a historian came by such a fortune; 2) why he bequeathed it to Columbia. Investigation soon disclosed that Bancroft, born in Galesburg, Ill. and an Amherst A.B., had taken his Ph.D. at Columbia in 1885, and lectured there for a year...
Checking of results will be done on school children. To provide a control group for Newburgh, the town fathers of Kingston, 32 miles to the north, have promised to forgo fluorine for the ten years. Newburgh and Brantford ought in the end to rate somewhere between Galesburg, Ill. (1.5 parts natural fluorine to a million of water) where school children average two and a half cavities each, and Michigan City, Ind. (0.5 to a million) where children have an average of ten cavities apiece...
...Monnahan has re-engaged herself in wedlock. . . The new maid has yet to cultivate here "Good Morning Dearie" to that degree of which we are accustomed . . . The faculty's Charlie McCarthy-Edgar Bergen team makes it apparent that a human relations' course is needed in the curriculum . . . With the Galesburg Classification Yard for material, Gregg cartoons for animation, and rails for weapons, Transportation Classes will henceforth be held at dawn...
...only dentist in Nome, Alaska calls himself "the best dentist on Front Street and President and Secretary of the Nome Dental Society." He is tall, husky, pink-cheeked Dr. Maxwell Raymond Kennedy, 26. Last week he went home for a visit in Galesburg, Ill., telling his own success story of dental triumph among Nome's 1,500 prospectors, Eskimos, saloonkeepers, trappers and government officials. He also went home to get his teeth fixed-there is no other dentist within 560 miles of Nome...
...Kennedy began as Galesburg's bad boy. At Galesburg's Knox College he had such fun with firecrackers that he was temporarily expelled. He finally finished three years' work, progressed to Northwestern University to study dentistry. When graduation neared in 1941, Nome's only physician, Dr. Thomas Morcam, arrived at Northwestern to interest a dentist in Nome's teeth. Several volunteered, but Kennedy got the job because of his eagerness, brash temperament, lack of family ties, and a perforated eardrum which the Army found distasteful...