Hearty Greetings, ca 1890's

The font of this strange
Christmas Card

This little card is so odd.  It reminds me of Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas.  The colors are more Halloween than Christmas and it has spider webs and spiders and other little insects embossed on the card.  The inside greeting says "A Cristmas Wish." with Christmas being misspelled.  In pencil is the notation "your little Gwen."  We don't know who Gwen was and we aren't sure which Moran was the recipient of the card.

A guesstimate on dating this card, we would put it early to late 1890's.









When you open the first panel you are met with "Hearty Greetings" and if you look closely on the left panel upper left you will see a spider web and spider.

The next panel opens to reveal the following sentiment: 

"A Cristmas (sic) Wish.  With never a wish ungranted, All earth's best gift for your own.  may this be the happiest Christmas That ever your life has known.  M.R. Jarvis"

Season's Greetings from Jenny Lind York, 1931

This Christmas card was sent to James Henderson Moran IV in 1931 from Jenny Lind York of Memphis, Tennessee.  

Season's Greetings to All of You

From The Moran's of West Tennessee

December 24, 2011

Dr. Arthur Carroll Scott Sr. renowned Cancer Specialist

Martha Helen Moran was one of John Williamson Moran's sisters.  She married Rufus Franklin Scott and they moved to Gainesville Texas.  She and Rufus had five sons: William, Moran, Arthur, Oscar and Berry. Arthur Carroll (also seen as Carrell) Scott was born 1865 and died in 1940.

Arthur Carroll Scott Sr.  packed a lot into that 85 years.  He graduated from Bellevue Medical College in 1886 winning an internship to Western Pennsylvania Hospital.  He returned to Gainesville and married Maud M. Sherwood and began private practice in 1889.  He was appointed Chief Surgeon in 1892 of the Gold, Colorado and Sante Fe Hospital in Temple Texas.  He and Dr. Raleigh R. White Jr formed a private partnership in 1897 and in 1904 they founded they Temple Sanitarium which the directed together.  Dr. White died in 1917 and Dr. Scott established a partnership with Dr. B.V. Brindley Sr and Dr. M.W. Sherwood.  The hospital became the Scott and White Hospital in 1922.

Dr. Scott was in internationally respected authority in the diagnosis and treatment of Cancer.  In 1933 Scott and White Hospital received accreditation from the American College of Surgeons as a cancer treatment center, the first in Texas.  Dr. Scott was active in local organizations and numerous medical organizations. The hospital he helped co-found became a multi-specialty treatment facility and is renowned throughout the United States.  Dr. Scott even has an historical marker dedicated to him by the Texas Historical Survey Committee.

Here is a Christmas card from Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Carroll Scott Sr., to his Moran cousins in Dresden, TN.  The envelope is missing but we know it pre-dates 1940 as that's when Dr. Scott passed away.