1903: AUSTERITY AT ST. FRANCIS HOSPITAL

This article is incredibly interesting. Long before 1,000 dollar per day room charges, 2.00 aspirin, and other hard to reconcile medical charges, local citizens were donating to Sister Hyacinth's St. Francis Hospital. These were the years when any and all citizens in need of hospital assistance were admitted without financial consideration. You paid what you could afford, and the wonderful Sisters of St. Francis continued on their live living the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

1974: AWARDS TO VOLUNTEERS AT ST. FRANCIS HOSPITAL

From the "ST. FRANCIS HOSPITAL" folder in the Hamilton Library Local History Collection:
The lady to the right in the photo above was a "best friend" to my dear wife Judy for more than 45 years. Bob and Rosemarie McLaughlin and their son Brian were neighbors who lived directly across the street from my Atlantic Avenue home.