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Show 6, May, Wednesday. Register today for sugar. Utah investes 60,000 in Federal Bonds. Senator Elbert D. Thomas wife, Edna Harkers funeral service was held in S.L.C. She was a Utahn. I received lovly roses from Sister Amelia Flygare today in honor of my birthday tomorrow. Corrigador feel to Japs today. I spent 5 hr having a premenant hair curl & dress today. Quite an oerdeal but seldom have one. Attended Lit. Club at Cleones. Myrene & Oertel had sick children so did not go. SIR JOHN PRINGLE (1707 to 1782) Among important military medical reformers must be counted Sir John Pringle, whose Observations on the Diseases of the Army (1752), was instrumental in securing better sanitation in barracks and military camps, as well as in jails and hospitals. He had much military experience in the British army. Possibly his most permanent contribution was the idea, championed by him, of the demilitarization of French and British hospitals the germ of the Red Cross institution. Thursday, May 7. Have had a very happy birthday. Am feeling well and have so much to be thankful for, especially my dear husband and children who do so much for me. All did something for me and also several of my dear friends. Oertel gave a nice luncheon and Sister A.L. Brewer, Amelia Flygare, Julia Parry, Martha B. Cooley, Rosella Larkin, Elizabeth Thomas were guests. Blanch and Junior gave a wonderful dinner in the evening for all our family Ralph & Maren came up from S.L.C. Telegrams from Mary, Thair, & Jed & Janath. TWENTY YEARS AGO Mrs. Herbert Hoover, wife of the secretary of commerce and president of the national council of the Girl Scouts of America, this afternoon talked to council members and Girl Scout captains at a reception in her honor at the home of Mrs. David Eccles. Leonard Wright, Junius Tribe, and Athol Tribe will represent the Weber Normal college in the Dr. Edward I. Rich oratorical contest, which will be held at the Orpheum theatre, Wednesday morning at ten thirty oclock. The power of forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative characters BALZAC. |