Medicine: Country Doctor

The country doctor lives a life seldom sensational. One night lately, however, Dr. Albert Patrick of Marceline, Mo., awoke from a deep dream of peace to play a role seldom cast outside the cinema. So, at least, said last week's news from Los Angeles.

What sent Dr. Patrick hurrying out of his house, into his flivver and into the night, was a telegram asking him to meet a train at the railroad station. Not many trains stop at Marceline, Mo., least of all the ponderous flier that groaned to a halt this night,...

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