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...Fairview, Ky., a concrete obelisk mounts 351 feet into the air. Built by Southern hands, it is a memorial to Jefferson Davis, onetime President of the Confederate States of America. Last week workmen were completing an elevator installation; on June 3 the monument, which stands on the estate where Davis was born, will be formally dedicated. With the exception of the Washington Monument, it is the highest memorial shaft in the world...
Married. Susan Clay, 26, poetess, great-granddaughter of rawboned Statesman-Orator Henry Clay of Kentucky; to William Sawitzky, 47, art-writer and lecturer; in Lexington, Ky...
...best to bed down helpless, untidy insane patients Dr. William R. Thompson of the Eastern State Hospital at Lexington, Ky., describes in the Journal of the American Medical Association: He has 34 beds that are "oblong boxes, made of one-inch dressed boards; 6½ ft. long, 30 in. wide and 18 in. deep, standing on legs twelve inches high and painted white. They are filled with fresh sawdust within six inches of the top. From such a trough, the patient cannot tumble out; an attendant can scoop out any sawdust . . . patients do not suffer any inconvenience whatever...
Georgetown, Ky...
Devastated areas. Southern Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas were the worst flood sufferers. In the streets of Judsonia, Ark., water reached a depth of four feet; one estimate placed 2,000,000 Arkansas acres under water. The entire town of Columbus, Ky. (pop. 654) was abandoned. Columbus, Ky., though hardly more than a village, was founded 105 years ago and at one time was considered as possible site for the national capital. Levees at Memphis, Tenn., were populous with slimy, writhing snakes, flooded out of their swampy homes...