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...elder Wallace, a Presbyterian minister, known to a neighborly countryside as "Uncle Henry,"was part owner of a county newspaper, and the son learned printing along with tilling as he grew to manhood. When lean years came, young Wallace studiously and scientifically applied himself to the task of inducing the indurate soil to yield him his livelihood. His experiments and solutions he then reported in articles for farm journals in Iowa and Illinois; and it was these writings that paved his way to greater things than struggling to support a wife with corn at 10c and 15c a bushel...
...young farmer-professor launched Farmer and Dairyman, later known as Wallace's Farmer when it was merged with the elder Wallace's Iowa Homestead. At the masthead of Wallace's Farmer is this motto, invented by the Presbyterian pastor: "Good Farming, Clear Thinking, Right Living...
...Pursuant to the insistent demands of the Presbyterian Church headed by Moderator Macartney and voiced by William J. Bryan, the First Presbyterian Church of New York accepted the resignation of Harry Emerson Fosdick as associate pastor...
...greatest medical centre in the world" (to cost $20,000,000) is to be erected jointly in Manhattan by the Presbyterian Hospital and the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Plans for this project were announced last week by Dean Sage, President of the Presbyterian Hospital. The section to be occupied, by the Columbia College will cost $3,000,000, which has already been subscribed; the Presbyterian Hospital section will cost $7,000,000, $4,500,000 of which is still to be raised. The joint administrative board is headed by William Barclay Parsons and Dr. C. C. Burlingame. James...
...Presbyterian Hospital was founded in 1872 by James Lenox. It cares for thousands "without regard for race, creed or color." Over 65% of its ward service is given free. When Lord Lister, about 50 years ago, brought forward his theory of antiseptic treatment in operations, the Presbyterian was among the first hospitals to adopt it, as it was also among the first to introduce medical social service and visiting nurse work. Its present abode, antiquated and inadequate, was erected in 1892. Now it will launch a drive?the first public appeal it has ever made?to complete the building fund...