OMAHA MEETING OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE MISSOURI

VALLEY

The thirty-third annual meeting will be held in Omaha, Monday and Tuesday, September 6-7, under the auspices of the Omaha-Douglas County Medical Society. Dr. Charles Ryan of Des Moines, Iowa, president. Hotel Fontenelle will. as usual, be headquarters and meeting place, and the annual dinner will be given at six o'clock Monday evening to which all members and their ladies are invited. Following the dinner, Dr. Karl Albert Meyer of Cook County Hospital, Chicago, will deliver the surgical oration, his title being "Ulcer Cure Following Gastric and Duodenal Perforation." On Tuesday, a lunch

eon will be given in the Indian Room of Hotel Fontenelle where the members will be the guests of the Omaha medical profession. By way of diversion, our members have been invited to attend a ceremonial of the "Ak-Sar-Ben," the guests of the Fall Festivities Association on Monday evening after adjournment. This will be a novel entertainment which no one should miss. It will take place in the "Ak-Sar-Ben" den.

..St. Joseph

CHAS. WOOD FASSETT....Kansas City

.Omaha

Chairman Arrangement Committee.

A. D. Dunn, F. E. Coulter, Irving Cutter, H. von W. Schulte.

All members are cordially urged to attend this meeting and to bring a friend. If you have had no vacation this summer, take the trip to Omaha and enjoy an outing in the society of the best fellows on earth, and enjoy a sojourn in one of the most beautiful and hospitable cities of the Missouri Valley. Come prepared to discuss the papers and do your part in the good work, which is now before the medical profession of the country. If you have not reserved your room at Hotel Fontenelle, do so today or you may be disappointed.

Arrangements are in the hands of a capable committee, as follows: Dr. John P. Lord, chairman; W. H. Pruner, R. W. Bliss, L. B. Bushman. Committee on Banquet: Max Emmert, Edwin Davis, O. E. Liston.

Ladies' Committee: Mesdames J. B. Potts,

Following is the preliminary program:

Dr. B. Langdon, Des Moines, Iowa, "Operative Delivery in Obstetrics with Demonstrations by Moving Pictures and Lantern Slides."

Dr. S. Grover Burnett, Kansas City, "The Treatment of Epilepsy-a Thirty Year Report." Dr. John W. Martin, Des Moines, Iowa, "Bone Surgery."

Dr. C. C. Conover, Kansas City, "Intestinal Stasis." Dr. O. C. Morrison, Carroll, Iowa, title unannonced. Dr. Tom Bently Throckmorton, Des Moines, Iowa, "Hemionopia as an Early Symptom of Brain Tumor." Dr. Arthur L. Smith, Lincoln, Neb., "The Value of a Complete Examination Before Local Therapy." Dr. T. G. Orr, Kansas City, "Traumatic Ossifying Myositis."

Dr. Frank B. Young, Gering, Neb., "The Acute Surgical Abdomen, With Case Reports."

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The "Gate City of the West," as Nebraska's metropolis has been called, stands on a height overlooking the Missouri river and commands the entrance to a vast inland empire stretching 1 500 miles westward.

Here begins the great overland route first used by the Indians, and then by the stream of immigrants who traveled to Oregon and California by stage coach, pony express, and ox team. Today Omaha is the fourth railroad center of the United States, and the half-way station on the New York-San Francisco aerial mail. Through it passes the Lincoln Highway, the great automobile route across the continent, and many other national or interstate highways.

No city of its size conducts a greater volume of business. Its manufactures, particularly those based on agriculture, have had a remarkable growth. It leads the United States in the production of creamery butter and has the largest macaroni factory in the country. It is the second corn and live stock market in the world.

Although Nebraska itself yields no metals, one of the largest refining smelters in the world. is located in Omaha; here the great trunk lines bring in from the western states, and even from Mexico and British Columbia, their daily toll of many hundreds of tons of ores, while other lines carry the refined metals to the east.

Fine public buildings, hospitals, libraries, and art galleries, and a score of parks, connected by a boulevard system 35 miles long, are among the city's many attractions. Omaha is the seat of the military headquarters of the Deartment of the Missouri, and at Fort Omaha, within the city limits, is located the chief balloon school of the United States. No city of the Missouri valley can boast of a more progressive and harmonious medical profession.

The city is named from the Omaha tribe of Indians, a branch of the Dakotas. Although a trading station had previously been established, it was not till 1854 that a treaty was concluded with the Indians whereby the land was surren