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Winter rescue: Saving the teacher’s life — Part 4

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Clark Fair

5d agoen

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Homer NewsWinter rescue: Saving the teacher’s life — Part 4homernews.com
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AUTHOR’S NOTE: On Nov. 20, 1927, Ninilchik schoolteacher John Bess Howe accidentally shot herself in the abdomen while cleaning a gun. After waiting in pain for several days, she was transported to an Anchorage hospital, where she was operated on and convalesced for about a month. Next, she was transferred by train, steamship and ambulance to a hospital in Seattle.

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