Word: spa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saratoga Springs, N. Y. over the two miles to Saratoga Spa last week swarmed horseowners, trainers, jockeys, stablemen, gamblers, tipsters, touts. In the same direction swarmed Saratoga storekeepers, hotel keepers, boarding house keepers, restaurateurs, druggists, doctors, lawyers, undertakers, servants, socialites, priests, preachers, rabbis. In the same direction sped Governor Herbert Lehman, Mrs. Lehman, George Foster Peabody, many another dignitary...
Altogether about 5,000 people collected at Saratoga Spa. Governor Lehman mounted a platform, formally opened seven new buildings clustered around Saratoga's mineral springs dedicated to the curing of heart diseases, constipation, gout, rheumatism, nervousness and a stack of diseases which have not yet been catalogued...
...seven buildings (with two old bath houses and a new hotel) constitute Saratoga Spa. They cost the State of New York $6,000,000 plus a $3,200,000 loan from RFC. Saratoga Spa is the only establishment of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.* In equipment and luxury it surpasses the German Spas whose regimens of catharsis and bathing it imitates. With only two bathhouses operating last year Saratoga Spa gave 101,449 treatments at $1.25 to $1.75 a bath, $1.50 to $2.00 a colonic irrigation, 1? a tumbler of mineral water. With the whole establishment running, Saratogans expect...
...thousand ears cocked toward Governor Lehman's dedication: ". . . Saratoga Spa is not only a place for the chronically ill, but for those who although not afflicted with any organic or functional disorder, still are in need of rest and recuperation from unusual physical or nervous strain...
...evening last week President Franklin D. Roosevelt of Georgia Warm Springs Foundation simultaneously celebrated his tenth year's attendance at the spa, the eighth annual trustees' meeting and Thanksgiving by presiding at a turkey dinner for all resident patients. He & wife sat at the head of the head table with 13 crippled children chosen by lot. For the fifth year Mrs. Eliza Manry, 97, of Lamar County, Ga., supplied a 40-lb. gobbler which required three men to bring it in from the kitchen. Afterwards a tenor rendered "Home on the Range" and on the second chorus the mellow Rooseveltian...