The Nankin Township Historical Society

I bought this Milestone 2 poetry Magazine at a Livonia estate sale this week. Milestone was the literary publication of Wayne (State) University and this second issue dates to 1949. While I don't recognize most of the names, Dudley Randall was both a nationally known poet and the librarian for the Wayne County General Hospital at Eloise via the Wayne County Library System. The poem featured is The Southern Road which was a revised version of the completed poem from 1948 that h as a handful or two of word differences between the two.  I don't know if Randall edited the poem for later collected works editions or earlier but this link features it in its likely final form in 2009. Neither version particularly enchants me but the block print in the magazine is an added bonus.

Well, this patch from WCGH somehow got past me on eBay and sold for $10.50 on Halloween. I'm not sure which uniform it was worn on but it would seem to be for security or police. 

Detroit Free Press , September 23, 1953 I've detailed dozens of accidents concerning cars and trains in the vicinity of Eloise and since Nankin was the center it only makes sense that pattern wasn't confined to the hospital. Blanchford Patterson and his son Samuel were hit and dragged 100 feet by a train at the Hix Road crossing. They were treated and released from WCGH with minor injuries. The trained was engineered by Harry Huebner of Plymouth.

It took me long enough to find a pill bottle from Wayne County General Hospital and it's in a pitiful way but is a relic just the same. Eventually, I'll find the motherlode of these but until then I have this placeholder. See, it was worth not sleeping in on a Sunday in the midst of working 8 straight days. As for the prescription: "Stelazine (trifluoperazine hydrochloride) is an anti-psychotic medication in a group of drugs called phenothiazines used to treat anxiety or psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. The brand name Stelazine is discontinued. This medication is available in generic form only."

Detroit Free Press , October 28, 1963 I'm not going to venture a guess at what became of Hubert Jackson of 32762 Missaukee in Nankin but if he took many more risks like the one he took in late October of 1963 he probably didn't live a very fortuitous life. That risk being dropping a lit match into the gas tank of an abandoned truck in the woods at the corner of Venoy and Glenwood. The truck exploded giving him facial burns and causing his younger brother Gary to require first aid. A friend, Terry Coffey, 10, also of 32873 Mecosta, Nankin, was unhurt. Hubert was taken to Wayne County General Hospital for treatment.

  Outside of their Frankenstein barbarism Eloise and Wayne County General Hospital had a reputation for innovative medical procedures and research.   As this press photo somewhat attests to, Sylvester E. Gould of WCGH speaks of artery replacement surgeries which were going on at Wayne State University that he was seemingly part of. Of course, the hospitals always had affiliations to the local colleges and universities so it might have been in conjunction with those programs that he was assisting Wayne. Either way, the photo of Gould and New Jersey Dr. Stuart Stevenson is available on eBay.