Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittm
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were members of our church, the First Christian Church in 2 ;pringfield, Illinois
where I was born. I remember him as a n m that didn' t 10 h : too well-groomed.
I suppose part of that was because he wore a long dark be+ 'd, almost to his
waist, and he'd always corn in late to church. Well that p lade him conspicuous
and mybe he wanted that. So I went to him knowing that I was a church
member and mybe he wouldn't be hard on about the paw
ct . So I told him
I didn't have any mney but I wanted hh to look at my va ination. He did
that and he kind of smiled and said, "Well we can take c of that." He
said, '!I'll give you fifty cents for the scab. " And I cated ignQrance
and he said, "Well I can use that to vaccinate somebody e e with." So he
didn't charge me anything and I went away happy because h took a little
scissors and cut it off, and I think he put a plaster on and told me to
take it off in a day or so. So that was it.
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Q. Do you thlnk he did use your scab to vaccinate anyone
A. No, I think he could have maybe if there was enough o
took to rrake the vaccination left on akin, but I don't
be had dropped it into a pail or wing I didn't know abc
the beghming and the end of my service with DF. Lindsey.
Q. Did you eventually have a bigger scar than your brothc
A. We11 it was fully as big yes. Well I've been vaccina'
going into foreign service you have to be vacclmated and (
you have to be vaccinated at my tire, and I have no othe:
one and only. (chuckle) Just recently my physician in S]
examFning rw heart, and w arm was bare and all of a suddt
to vaccination scar, but because he had his stethoscopt
couldn't explain to him fight then anything about it. (cl
ends the story of the vaccination, I didn't get sml1 pox
Q. Yours was an origkml do it yourself vaccination.
A. Yes, well it was do it yourself surely.
Q. Why didn't you go to a doctor originally to have it dc
A. Because I didn't have any extra mney, only enough to
Q. So you just went down to Broadwell's and got your own
A. I don't thhk I paid m o than ~ a quarter for that poir
rmke do you see, you can do things if you mke up your mir
failed I would have had to try It again mybe.
4. Do you want to tell me about Jane Addams now?
A. I d be glad to. That s ve pleasant narrative I thir
of 1912 I went to Chicago for purpose of spending the
And the first part of the I took a five weeks cow:
at the School of Civics
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and it later becarre a
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