At genealogybank.com you can look up Aberdeen newspapers from back then. I have been trying to find similar information, as my grandmother had my mother in Aberdeen, SD in 1917, but I do not know if she was born at home, hospital, or ?
In 1919 my mother was place in ND Childrens Home Society in Fargo ND for adoption, and adopted in April 1919.
Just trying to find out more about Aberdeen in 1917-1919 by reading the paper from then.