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Collection: 2016-P-011 - Bismarck Tribune
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 01544
Title: Ann Busby helping her son Ferman Baker Busby in hospital bed with Christian Digest magazine Bismarck Burleigh County (N.D.)
Date: 5/9/1942
Creator: LaLonde, Leo --1911-1977
Inscription/Marks: [Caption: Bismarck Tribune Saturday, May 9, 1942 p08] Six Years in Hospital. Books, current magazines and all kinds of reading help to pass the time pleasantly for Ferman Busby, 46, a patient in the Bismarck hospital since a spinal tumor resulted in the disability of his legs in March of 1936. Above, Busby listens as his mother, Mrs. Anna Busby of Linton, reads to him. Often his mother, who makes her home in Bismarck at the present time, takes him out in the wheel-chair. [Caption: Bismarck Tribune Thursday August 7, 1947 p01] Browsing around with Alan Eastman. Tribune readers who have travel magazines, road maps of other states or Canadian provinces--or a reading glass--could make themselves feel good by sending one or all these things to Ferman Busby. Mr. Busby has been a patient at Bismarck hospital for the last 11 years and probably will be there until the curtain falls on a life which certainly has been a courageous one. A farmer and stock raiser living 12 miles north of Linton in Emmons County, Mr. Busby was brought to the hospital in 1936 with a malady which paralyzed him from the waist down. He is bed-ridden most of the time and his ony pastime is planning and taking imaginary trips. That's where the maps and trave magazines come in. Today he may be at Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies. Tomorrow he may be off to Mexico City. Or he would be if he had enough travel maps. Anyone who wants to help should mail the maps and magazines to Mr. Busby at the Bismarck hospital. Or, if it is more convenient, leave them at TheTribune office and I'll see that they are delivered. The reading glass? His eyes are getting poor and the little glass he now has looks like a ten-cent-store model. I am sure he would be glad to get a better one. [Caption: Bismarck Tribune Friday February 6, 1948 p01] More Maps. Thanks to Mrs. Kenneth Lane, Fort Lincoln, Ferman Busby has another ticket for a round-the-world tour. Busby, paralyzed from the waist down, has been a patient in the Bismarck hospital for 12 years. To pass the time he takes imaginary trips by means of maps, travel folders, and books. Mrs. Lane's hobby was collecting maps and travel folders. She recalled reading about Busby's trips in Browsin Around last fall and so sent him a good share of her collection.
Summary: Ann Busby helps her son Ferman Baker Busby in hospital bed with a Christian Digest magazine while laying in bed at the Bismarck Evangelical Hospital in Bismarck, Burleigh County (N.D.). Image was published in the Bismarck Tribune Saturday, May 9, 1942 p08 with the headline: Six Years in Hospital. Caption: Books, current magazines and all kinds of reading help to pass the time pleasantly for Ferman Busby, 46, a patient in the Bismarck hospital since a spinal tumor resulted in the disability of his legs in March of 1936. Above, Busby listens as his mother, Mrs. Anna Busby of Linton, reads to him. Often his mother, who makes her home in Bismarck at the present time, takes him out in the wheel-chair. A later story in the Bismarck Tribune Thursday August 7, 1947 p01 Browsing around with Alan Eastman. Tribune readers who have travel magazines, road maps of other states or Canadian provinces--or a reading glass--could make themselves feel good by sending one or all these things to Ferman Busby. Mr. Busby has been a patient at Bismarck hospital for the last 11 years and probably will be there until the curtain falls on a life which certainly has been a courageous one. A farmer and stock raiser living 12 miles north of Linton in Emmons County, Mr. Busby was brought to the hospital in 1936 with a malady which paralyzed him from the waist down. He is bed-ridden most of the time and his ony pastime is planning and taking imaginary trips. That's where the maps and trave magazines come in. Today he may be at Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies. Tomorrow he may be off to Mexico City. Or he would be if he had enough travel maps. Anyone who wants to help should mail the maps and magazines to Mr. Busby at the Bismarck hospital. Or, if it is more convenient, leave them at TheTribune office and I'll see that they are delivered. The reading glass? His eyes are getting poor and the little glass he now has looks like a ten-cent-store model. I am sure he would be glad to get a better one. This was followed by the good news in the Bismarck Tribune Friday February 6, 1948 p01 has this additional information: More Maps. Thanks to Mrs. Kenneth Lane, Fort Lincoln, Ferman Busby has another ticket for a round-the-world tour. Busby, paralyzed from the waist down, has been a patient in the Bismarck hospital for 12 years. To pass the time he takes imaginary trips by means of maps, travel folders, and books. Mrs. Lane's hobby was collecting maps and travel folders. She recalled reading about Busby's trips in Browsin Around last fall and so sent him a good share of her collection. Busby passed away in 1965.
Red ID: PH_I_155822 Image ID: 135478 Image Notes: 2016-P-011-01544

Collection: 2016-P-011 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Bismarck Tribune
Date: 1940-1960

Summary: Bismarck Tribune news photographs taken by Leo LaLonde. 4x5" black and white negatives, no prints.

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