Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittman
Q. Would you reflesh q memory again. This was about in which year.
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A. Well, it was after I graduated. It was early after rqy graduation,
1907, I imagine, something like that.
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A. I went to West Texas, way out. I can't recall the n+ of the place,
but it was to one of those hotels that you stop overnight at on your way
to break your journey. The patient was a dry famg expqrt f'rom the state
of Nebraska. He was a big man with a red beard, red hair. He was quite
sick. A doctor met me at the train; he had been drinking./
Q. me doctor?
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A. Not filly under, but I recognized it. So he took me t@ the patient, and
I was to be the only nurse. Well, he had prescribed the mdicine before.
I guess he wasn't in that condition when he prescribed the mdicfne. I could
give the mdicine and I mew hm to take cavle of a pnemqta case. 5 could
get food for him out of the kitchen, but the next day he 9 s all ri#t. His
wife was ping to come from Nebraska when he was so sick, pf course. And
she believed tn a magic doctor. He was called the rm@c +ctor, and she
brought him along. It was all right. He didn't say the &her doctor must
go, he didn't say that I'd have to stop giving the mediciw or anythbg. He
just, well, he did sow rubbing and so forth as nearly as $ remr&er. That
was about all. I would disappear somtirres when he was ty~, that is, let
the wife be with him. The doctor naybe wanted it that way! for short periods.
But that went on all ri&t. The patient got better.
However, there was a terrible mcket from the geese on the/ hotel grounds.
It was distrubing m, but; it was disturbing the patient, t o. So I went to
the proprietor and I said, "Why do you have those geese re anyhow?" And
he said, "To give the place a dornstic look. " So we o have it. Now
that I thought that was quite an experience.
Q. The magic doctor, was he a faith healer type?
A. I think so, yes. And it was also--he was a nice looki@g man, a qicely
groorned man and polite and nice. There wasn't anything
And the doctor stayed on. He said, "You call me when
Q. So science and spiritualism got along fine? I
A. Yes, they did. (lawter)
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Q. You said he was a expert in dry farming. I 'm not quit sure what that
means.
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A. Well, you see, Texas, that panhandle region, is
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what h was interested
in; mostly because there isnl t $no@ rain there, enough m isture. At least,