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shacks, along dirt paths on south Arno, Edith, and Walter, where there were no defined avenues. Entire families lived in one room, the healthy spouse and the children caring for the most dreadfully ill. St. Joseph Sanatorium was bursting at its new seams, filled with both paying and indigent patients. There were more people than resources, and still they came. “I am reminded,” Cooper wrote, “that twenty-
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