"Health & Medical News"

Down to his last few dollars, he spotted a newspaper ad: Milford, Kansas, population two thousand, was looking for a doctor. He and Minnie loaded up their flivver and arrived there on October 7, 1917. On the edge of town Brinkley stopped, and the car shivered into silence. Milford had lied to them. Its population wasn’t two thousand; it was two hundred, if it stood on a chair.

Located ninety-five miles north of Wichita and ten miles from the exact geographical center of the nation, Milford was about as close as you could get to the navel of the United States, and about as interesting to contemplate. In 1859 traveler Horace Greeley wrote that the buffalo moved quickly through the area, “as I should urgently advise them to do.” Since then the town had grown to a length of two blocks. Its lone attempt at grandeur, a large building misguidedly salvaged from the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, stood empty and derelict. The train station was in a cornfield.

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