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Filed under: Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history | Tags: Bankers Life Insurance Company, BJ Palmer, Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history, old time radio, Palmer School of Chiropractic, radio, Ronald Reagan, Todd Waters, WHO, WOC
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” – SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
My latest pick is a treasure trove of information about the early days of W-H-O Radio, Des Moines, Iowa.
W-H-O was the second radio station purchased by the Developer of Chiropractic, BJ Palmer. It is also where Dutch Reagan got his start in show business as a radio sports announcer. After some motion pictures and a governorship, Ronald Reagan landed the gig as the 40th president of the United States.
I found a compilation of newsletters bound in a book entitled “Our Home Office.” The newsletters originated from Bankers Life Insurance company, the original owners of Station W-H-O. The book contained the very first issue of Our Home Office, published April 1, 1927, and then continued biweekly, through November 15, 1930.
Bankers Life president, Gerard Nollen, stated that the purpose of the newsletter was to “promote loyalty and enthusiasm” among his employees. I got the sense while reading through these newsletters that Nollen would have been a good person to work for and that he encouraged his team to use their talents. Continue reading
Filed under: Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history | Tags: BJ Palmer, Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history, DD Palmer, Harvey Lillard, Palmer School of Chiropractic, Ryan Block Building, Todd Waters
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” – SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
A brick sits on my desk. But this is not just any brick….
In 1888 DD Palmer moved his magnetic healing practice to Davenport, Iowa, renting rooms in the Ryan Block Building on the corner of Second and Brady streets. Palmer not only used these rooms as his office for his patients, but as his residence for his family. His vitalistic, hands-only, magnetic healing methods were so successful and sought after, that within four years he required the square footage of the building’s entire fourth floor. Room and board was made available for his most severe cases.
Filed under: Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history | Tags: BJ Palmer, Chiro-Picker, chiropractic college history, chiropractic history, DD Palmer, John Bastyr DC ND, Palmer School of Chiropractic, Seattle College of Chiropractic, Seattle School of Chiropractic, Todd Waters
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” – SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
In SCR Episode 158, the ChiroPicker grabbed a mic and took over my show. I figure if he can get away with it, so can I. So, I’m hijacking his Fresh Picks article this month to showcase a bit of little known Northwest chiropractic history. — Dr. Lamar
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A chiropractic college in Seattle? Bizarre. That’s what I first thought when I heard about it.
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Filed under: Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history | Tags: Chips from Sweet Home, Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history, DD Palmer, Gene Zdrazil DC, Myron Brown DC, Old Dad Chiro, Todd Waters
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” – SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
On September 18, 1997, one hundred and two years after D.D. Palmer delivered the profession’s first adjustment, adventuring chiropractic historians, Dr. Myron Brown and Dr. Gene Zdrazil, set a modest stone marker on a piece of land once owned by the founder — a piece of land that Palmer affectionately referred to as “Sweet Home.”
For Brown and Zdrazil, memorializing this historic location of chiropractic was easy. Finding it was hard. Continue reading
Filed under: Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history | Tags: BJ Palmer, Chips from Sweet Home, Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history, Nellie Revell, Palmer School of Chiropractic, Palmergram, PSC, Todd Waters, vaudeville
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” – SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
As a non-DC, but avid DC-historian, I can speak with some authority when I say chiropractors have never had an easy time selling what they do to the public. Although chiropractic is beneficial to the health of man, it is difficult to quickly explain to the layperson what it is — and on the flip side, what it isn’t. Chiropractic concepts are further complicated when potential patients must “unlearn” what hearsay has taught them.
From its beginning, the chiropractic profession has been smeared by other practitioners of health care, driven by competition and misunderstanding.
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