At 14, her mother placed her in a state-run home for 18 months because she had become unmaneageable, refusing to attend school or stay at home.

Following the American Civil War the federal government increased the number of National Military Homes, and took over a few formerly state-run old soldiers' homes.

Most of the children under 14 were then placed in state-run homes, where conditions were better, though the German language was banned.

He thereafter grew up in a series of state-run foster homes.

The president's budget would save $293 million by reducing federal payments for state-run homes that provide veterans with long-term care.

The only other state-run home for veterans is in Oxford, N.Y., near Binghamton.

During the communist period, the building had been used as state-run home for the elderly.

The Italian police say he is being cared for in a state-run home for children.

With self-abnegation they served the sick and magnanimously gave bread to the orphans of the nearby state-run home, making no distinctions according to religious or ethnic affiliation.

It was a state-run home until 1921 when the Federal Government took over and started moving patients to Carville from around the nation.