Foreign Language Press Service

At the Mississippi River Valley Medical Association conference in Cincinnati last week, Dr. Gustave Kolescher of the Michael Reese Hospital staff exhibited four patients who had been clinically cured of cancer and whose cases at first had been regarded as hopeless. This was the First announce

p. 2.... Some of our Professionals say that people who do not have the honor of wearing a toga and the right to smoke cigars wrapped in tin foil, should be prohibited from writing newspaper articles. However, they do not practice what they preach. Are any examples necessary? There are so many

At the monthly meeting of the Deutscher Lohrerverein [German Teachers' Association] which was held last night at the Bismarck Hotel, Mr. Ernest J. Kruetgen, the newly appointed member of the Board of Education, was among those present. In a brief speech he declared that it was his intention t

"Ten Years ago I opened the first Greek pharmacy in America. Since that time I have handled countless prescriptions which were written by quacks. Of course I never filled these prescriptions, since they were usually of an injurious nature. "Whenever I received them I would discard t

Dr. Scherger explain the assertions that the opinions of certain Philosophers influenced the germen people, as silly, and rejects remarks of certain authors as untrue, even to-day the German people are the same as they were in Goethe's and Schiller's time. It is an entirely wrong id

Dr. Adam Szwajkart, a member of the Polish National Alliance and a former president of the library and muzeum board of that organization, is to be appointed Cook County physician, replacing Dr. Davis, who now serves in that capacity. Dr. Szwajkart is known to all Chicago Poles for h

Dear Colleagues: We must admit that Chicago is second only to Warsaw, and is nearly on a par with it, in number of Polish doctors. Yet, despite the fact that our society has existed for several years, and despite the large number of Polish physicians in Chicago, we have been unable to organiz

[Half-tone, one column-sixth of a page, full face picture of Eric E. Hall.] Our well-known countryman, Architect Eric E. Hall, partner in the firm of Hall and Ostergren, has been appointed county architect by the president of the County Commission, Peter Reinberg. The appo

Dr. D'Orsay Hecht, associate professor of nervous and mental diseases in the medical school of Northwestern University, died on Tuesday, Feb. 16, at 5142 Kimbark Ave. He took his medical degree at N. W. Univ. and began his practice in Chicago in 1901. Dr. Hecht had been at various t

The leader of the American Slavic medical expedition to Serbia, Dr. Rudisjicinsky sent a report, on the day when the expedition entered Serbia, to the Cesko-Americka Tiskova Kancelar (Bohemian-American Press Bureau) on the activities, to the end of last year, of the physicians, Dr. Rudis-Jici

Great progress in the scientific analysis of light will be made possible through a delicate new machine for defraction grading just completed by Prof. A. A. Michelson. With this new apparatus, scientists will be enabled to take an analysis of light on a ruled paper showing from 10,000 to 20,0

The Spolek Ceskych Lekaru (Association of Bohemian [Man] Physicians) held a meeting last night at which a discussion took place as to what would be the most suitable way of honoring the memory of Dr. Jan M. Kara, a Bohemian-American physician and member of the medical expedition to Serbia, wh

Before the members of the German Teachers' Association, director Max Griebsch gives a lecture. The great esteem which Mr. Max Griebsch, director of the Milwaukee Teachers' Seminar enjoys among the German Teachers of Chicago, was proven by the large appearance of the members of the G

At last what we have trumpeted for many years in the ears of our professional men may soon materialize. Twenty-five Greek physicians held a meeting last week in the Sherman Hotel and discussed the possibility of forming a Greek professional men's club with the object of serving the

The Lithuanian-American Physicians Society met last Saturday, May 1, at 3261 South Halsted Street. An election of officers took place with the following results: Dr. A. L. Juska, president; Dr. J. Kulis, vice-president; Dr. K. Drangelis, secretary; Dr. A. J. Zimontas, treasurer. At

A highly esteemed religious leader, former director of the Bible Institute of the Free Church of America, Professor John Gustaf Princell, died May 1 in Henrotin Hospital after a long illness. Born in Tolg parish, Smaland, Sweden, September 8, 1845, he came to America with his parent

At the judicial election in Chicago, next June 7, Swedish-American voters will have an opportunity to show their appreciation of a countryman who in an honorable manner has discharged his duties in positions of trust, and has demonstrated unusual ability as a lawyer and fitness for public ser

Mr. M. Zaldokas completed a course in architecture at the Armour Institute last week. He is probably the first Lithuanian architect in America. He was born in Smilgiu parish, Panevezys county, Lithuania, and emigrated to the United States fifteen years ago. He has been living in Chicago durin

The Spolek Ceskych Pravniku (Bohemian Lawyers' Association) held a special meeting on the premises of the Probate Court to consider the coming election and unanimously agreed to recommend to Bohemian voters the candidacy of Alderman Otto Kerner and that of Judge Joseph Sabath, both of whom th

As Building Commissioner for Chicago after Henry Ericsson, resigned, has been appointed Mr. Charles Bostrom. The appointment is pleasing, not merely on account of the nationality of the appointee, but because he enjoys reputation as a a capable and conscientious man who will undoubt