Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week small, spry, white-haired William Wattis was in San Francisco's St. Francis Hospital taking the Coffey-Humber cancer treatment when word reached him that his company had won the contract to build Hoover Dam. His jolly blue eyes snapped with delight. Wrapped in his bathrobe, and puffing a big, black cigar he talked eagerly...
...Pacific Co. in San Francisco, last year cautiously announced that they were alleviating hopeless cases of cancer by means of adrenal cortex extract derived from sheep. The Hearst press recognized the kernel of news in this announcement and puffed it so that thousands of cancer victims abandoned the orthodox treatment of surgery, X-rays and radium, rushed for the sure-cure...
...Adams House will be its lower common room, situated in the west wing of the new building facing Plympton Street. It is largely modeled after a room in a Florentine palace, which has served as the source of the Italianate interior decorations and furnishings. The reason for this luxurious treatment of the room is due to the fact that it was planned when the out-of-date Russell-Hall was to be a part of Adams House. Thus the Lower Common Room was to serve as a balancing feature, but with announcement of a new building to take the place...
Near Zeeland, Mich. Gerrit Wyngarden was struck in the eye by a stray bullet while hunting. He went to Ann Arbor for treatment, found he might lose the sight of both eyes. Then he was stricken with appendicitis, underwent an emergency appendectomy. Then, while Gerrit Wyngarden was recovering, his wife was brought to bed of a child, died. Next day his chicken hatchery, sole means of subsistence, burned to the ground...
...Treatment for Burns. Under big, tousle-headed Sanders A. Wertheim, Burns Bros, proudly proclaimed Burns Coal Burns, and Burns Bros, grew fast. Last month much smoke over Burns Bros, indicated trouble in the boiler-room of management from which should come the steam that makes for profits. One cloud of smoke was the resignation of President Wertheim, the election of Noah H. Swayne as his successor. Another cloud was a sudden, alarming drop of all Burns securities. Another was the election of several Lehigh Valley Coal Corp. men to the Burns board...