Word: streator
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mabel Carmon grew up in Streator, Ill., took her training at Chicago's Wesley Memorial Hospital, soon became the "righthand gal" of Dr. Joseph B. DeLee, who headed Lying-in from its opening in 1895 to his death in 1942. She first went to work for him in 1907, when Lying-in was running a three-bedroom, gaslit hospital in Chicago's stockyards district, and when nearly all U.S. infants were born at home...
...have come from merchants who think we're sometimes getting a little too longhair." In Chillicothe, Mo. (pop. 8,649), Owsley Welch had the same report: "If we have a criticism it's that the programs are usually a little heavy for Chillicothe." In Streator, Ill. (pop. 16,442), Linden Mulford laid it down: "All we have in Streator is middle-class people, and if you give them all longhair stuff, you'll find only the pinky-crookers at the concerts...