Jim Kershner’s this day in history

From our archives, 100 years ago

The Spokane County commissioners voted unanimously to appropriate $26,000 for a tuberculosis sanatorium. 

Only one person opposed the sanatorium, on the basis of cost. Everyone else at the meeting spoke in favor of it.

One man said it “would be a disgrace to fail to open the sanatorium to save so small a pittance.”

One union man said they had to send their members to a Colorado sanatorium. He said it was hard to “induce a man suffering from tuberculosis to cut himself off from his family and go away to Colorado.”

From the college beat: About 25 more scholars arrived at Gonzaga University over the course of the week, bringing the enrollment up to 430. 

That was considerably ahead of the same time the year before, authorities said.

From the food beat: The second-place winner of The Spokesman-Review’s recipe contest was an item unusual by today’s standards: Baked Stuffed Heart.

The recipe called for one beef heart or two calf hearts. It specified that the cook should “carefully remove all membranes and veins from the inside of the heart” and let it stand for a half-hour to “draw out the blood.”

Also on this date

(From the Associated Press)

1928: Scottish medical researcher Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the first effective antibiotic.

1939: During World War II, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a treaty calling for the partitioning of Poland, which the two countries had invaded.