A Shot in the Arm -- Little two-year-old Galen Tarrence, his eyes misty, lets out a childish wail as Dr. W. Clark Giles gives him a shot of typhoid vaccine at an emergency station set up in a grocery store here today. Trying to comfort the tot is Mrs. Wayne Warrior, a volunteer flood worker. Inoculations were being given at three centers in Council Bluffs as the city prepared for possible inundation by the rampaging Missouri River.
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A Shot in the Arm -- Little two-year-old Galen Tarrence, his eyes misty, lets out a childish wail as Dr. W. Clark Giles gives him a shot of typhoid vaccine at an emergency station set up in a grocery store here today. Trying to comfort the tot is Mrs. Wayne Warrior, a volunteer flood worker. Inoculations were being given at three centers in Council Bluffs as the city prepared for possible inundation by the rampaging Missouri River.

Associated Press · [ca. April 1952]

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[Information from item housing] Floods: 1952: Wire Photos

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