First recruitment advertisement for Oregon Insane Asylum

July 23, 1862
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Staffing has been a trouble from the first moment in the history of the Oregon State Hospital.  The public view of psychiatry in Oregon started with a recruitment advertisement in The Oregonian on July 23, 1862 for the Oregon State Hospital and Insane Asylum. At that moment, 148 years ago, Dr. James Hawthorne may have […]

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Address on temperance by Abraham Lincoln

February 22, 1842
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Address on temperance by Abraham Lincoln to the to the Springfield Washington Temperance Society on the 110th anniversary of George Washington’s birth, at the Second Presbyterian Church Springfield, Illinois, February 22, 1842 Although the Temperance cause has been in progress for near twenty years, it is apparent to all, that it is, just now, being […]

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