Bright's Disease is now called acute or chronic nephritis.

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Letters among the William E. Nevis family from World War II into the Baby Boom and the Eighties. 1943-1986. The first set of letters are World War II letters from Leonard J. Nevis to his brother Arnold H. Nevis, 1943–1945; second set to and from Arnold 1943–1951; third set Nevis and Wolfe family history; fourth set Arnold and Newlin 1952–1986; and final set Newlin's story 1986–2016
Bright's Disease is now called acute or chronic nephritis.
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The Cottage Hospital is a not-for-profit care center in Santa Barbara.
The snow storm they got into between Hanford and Glendale was very likely in the Transverse Ranges, what Californians now call "the Grape Vine" for a stretch of Interstate 5 cutting through the Tejon Pass between the Tehachapi Mountains and the San Emigdio Mountains. In 1949 that would have been State Route 99 (also known at one point as US 99).
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Hazel's note was written on a Tuesday, so perhaps March 8, 1949, but the envelope is postmarked March 12, 1949, with Bill's handwriting.
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Hazel writes a birthday card and letter to her son Arnold on his 27th birthday.
Daughter Dolly and her husband Lee have bought a used Terraplane car.
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