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[clipping pasted to a card that has outline illustrations of flying airplanes]
… and BEST WISHES
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NEW HEALTH BOARD HEAD
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STATE GROUP ELECTS DR. E. S. SMITH OF KIRKSVILLE.
[partially cut off by clip of above title] in the Spanish-American War, the mementos from an uncle, Rear Admiral John A. B. Smith.
A “LICENSED” SHIP PILOT.
Dr. Smith was commanding officer of the sanitary battallion, 102d division, in the World War.
Dr. Smith studied navigation at Georgetown university and received a pilot’s license for the Atlantic Coast. He navigated a power boat which carriied Missourians on a cruise by river and Great Lakes to New York a few years ago, distributing Missouri corncob pipes and other products along the way.
He is married and has one daughter, Miss Emily Smith, a graduate of the University of Missouri school of journalism.
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“I’ve been president two years,” Dr. Bourke said last night, “and the position entails more work than I can give to it.”
He added that he expected to remain a member of the board until the expiration of his term.
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from BRANIFF of course!
MISSOURI STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
623 MISSOURI BUILDING
ST. LOUIS (3), MO.
March 7, 1950
OFFICERS
Wallis Smith, M.D., Springfield
President
W. A. Bloom, M.D., Fayette
President-Elect
J. C. Creech, M.D., Troy
E. J. McIntire, M.D., Carthage
H. M. Henrickson, M.D., Poplar Bluff
Vice-Presidents
C. E. Hyndman, M.D., St. Louis
Treasurer
H. E. Petersen, M.D., St. Joseph
Secretary
R. O. Muether, M.D., St. Louis
Editor
Helen Penn, St. Louis
Assistant Editor-Business Manager
Raymond McIntyre, St. Louis
Field Secretary
Phone: NEwstead 0404
COUNCIL
J. Wm. Thompson, M.D., St. Louis
Chairman
E. C. Bohrer, M.D., West Plains
Vice Chairman
Donald M. Dowell, M.D., 1st Dist., Chillicothe
W. F. Francka, M.D., 2nd Dist., Hannibal
J. Wm. Thompson, M.D., 3rd Dist., St. Louis
Otto Koch, M.D., 4th Dist., Clayton
J. F. Jolley, M.D., 5th Dist., Mexico
R. W. Kennedy, M.D., 6th Dist., Marshall
C. Edgar Virden, M.D., 7th Dist., Kansas City
W. S. Sewell, M.D., 8th Dist., Springfield
E. C. Bohrer, M.D., 9th Dist., West Plains
F. W. Hall, M.D., 10th Dist., Cape Girardeau
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E. S. Smith, M.D.
Kirksville, Mo.
Dear Dr. Smith:
Congratulations on completing fifty years in the practice of medicine.
Announcement will be made at the Annual Banquet that you will receive the 50 Year Pin this year and the pin will be available at the registration desk on Tuesday morning of the Session.
We hope that you will be present but should it be impossible, we will mail the pin to you soon after the Session.
With kind regards, I am
Sincerely,
Wallis Smith
Wallis Smith, M.D.
President
WS:bt
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100 Years. MISSOURI STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 1850-1950. Annual Session, St. Louis, March 26-29, 1950.
Life Membership Certificate of the
Mississippi Valley Medical Society
[logo for the society which portrays the communal borders between Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri]
Organized at Quincy, Illinois
April 8, 1935
Incorporated Not For Pecuniary Profit. November 20, 1935
No. 14
Whereas
Edward S. Smith, M.D.
has fulfilled the requirements of the Constitution and Regulations of the Society appertaining to the Life Membership he is herewith declared a
Life Member
In Witness Whereof the seal of the Society and the signatures of the proper Officers are hereunto affixed this 10th day of June A.D. 1935.
Neele[?] Stevenson MD
Chairman, Board of Trustees
Harold Swaubey, M.D.
Secretary, Treasurer
[golden Corporate Seal]