BADLY ABUSED - Miss Madge Young 1901

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Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 12/11/2016 at 14:09:20

Dubuque Daily Telegraph – March 1, 1901

BADLY ABUSED
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Sick Student at the State University
Is Turned Out of Boarding
House and Hospital
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Iowa City, March 1, - Miss Madge Young, a popular freshmen student at the University of Iowa and a member of the Delta Gamma sorority, was turned out of her room by her landlord recently because the doctors found that she was coming down with an attack of scarlet fever. She was put out onto the street by the landlord and told not to come back. Miss Young had no place to go but to the University Hospital, where she applied for admittance. The hospital authorities told her that they could not receive contagious diseases and told her to go back to her room and they would send for a nurse. As she could not do that, the gritty young lady hired a rig at the livery station and drove twelve miles through the night air to her home in North Liberty. She was completely exhausted when she arrived at her home. Fortunately, however, the good care of the family counteracted the bad effects of her long and cold ride and she is getting nicely along at present. The fact became generally known through a visit of her brother to the city and the feeling of the student towards the landlord, who is a prominent merchant in the city, is far from kindly. Miss Young is the daughter of Dr. M. Young, at one time a representative of Johnson County in the general assemble and a large landowner in the county.