Juniors of Gulf Division Form New Peace Program
Miss Verna Pursell of New Orleans will lead 48269 Junior Red Cross members in Gulf division as a separate department. New plans require raising at least one half million dollars annually for relief to foreign children. Lyman Bryson sails to Europe as Junior Red Cross abroad representative to study conditions and write monthly articles. Miss Blanche Greer will accompany him to illustrate.
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Verna Pursell
New Orleans
Department of Junior Activities
Red Cross
Uniil
Department of Development
National
Gulf Division
United States
Parsell
Gram
America
Lyman Bryson
American Red Cross
Europe
Red Cross of America
Mr. Bryson
University of Michigan
Georgetown
Columbia
Blanche Greer
Junior Red Cross Unites Children for Postwar Service
Chief of Red Cross notes millions of children enrolled in Junior Red Cross in fall 1917 to aid the war effort and demands that their spirit of service endure into the Peace Program. Educators like W J Studebaker urge sustaining sympathy and love of humanity to empower these efforts beyond conflict.
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Red Cross
W. J. Studebaker
Des Moines
Children of America
Hopes Women Will Adopt This Habit As Well As Men
An article promotes a morning routine of hot water with limestone phosphate to cleanse the stomach liver and bowels. It claims this inside bath improves health, complexion, and energy, urging both women and men to start each day with the practice.
London Y M C A hostels hide American doughboys tale
A ragged American soldier, after a year with British forces in France, seeks aid at a London YMCA hut. Mrs Gowers shelters him, but his valet persona shocks the household as a cable reveals a California millionaire son’s plea for funds, with the note “Dad, I’m busted.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
England
France
Eagle Hut
Gowers
California
Chamberlain
Plan to salvage coal from Long Island Sound
Simon Lake announces five specially built boats to salvage about 1,000,000 tons of coal from the bottom of Long Island Sound off Bridgeport Connecticut. If successful, operations may extend along the New England coast and herald a new era in thrift and conservation of wasted public utilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Island Sound
Simon Lake
Lake Engineering Company
Bridgeport
Mr. Lake
Sound
Atlantic
New England
New Incombustible Insulating Material Described
A new insulating compound is formed by blending 51.7 percent powdered asbestos with 14 percent powdered mica and 20 percent mineral rubber plus 1 percent resin and 3 percent para rubber dissolved in 9.6 percent bisulphide or selenium. After washing and air evaporation a non absorbent substance is produced that becomes plastic on heating and can be molded into any shape.
North Dakota Leads in Banks Per Capita Among States
North Dakota has one bank for every 948 residents, the highest per capita bank density. South Dakota follows at 1 bank per 1,474 people, with Nebraska at 1 per 1,208 and Iowa at 1 per 1,210. Kansas stands at 1 per 1,548, Missouri at 1 per 3,276.
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North Dakota
Southakota
Nebraska
Towa
Kansas
Missouri
Mule Keeps The Farm, A Feeble Kick Keeps Company
A fragment from the PA8T Associations notes humorously asks why keep an old mule around as the sole source of bite and courage on the farm. The line hints at nostalgia and quiet resilience in a dwindling rural scene.
Naturally. How to plan a grand blow out
A witty exchange on hosting a grand social event. The speaker asks for the first step to a successful blowout and answers with raising the wind, implying generating atmosphere and excitement as the key. The line reflects playful banter on party prep and social flair.
Gas exposure claim sparks discussion of home remedies
A reader reports being gassed and criticizes hot water drinking as a remedy while noting a small cost for limestone phosphate. The note suggests that a quarter-pound dose could prove effective within one or two weeks, implying a home treatment discussion from a drugstore context.
Pores in skin and bowels in impurity debate
The text contrasts skin pores absorbing no impurities into the blood with bowel pores doing so, highlighting a belief about cleansing and filtration between external skin and internal bowels. It reflects historical views on anatomy and toxin elimination.
Parker Farms offers frost proof cabbage plants in multiple lots
Advertisement from Parker Farms of Moultrie Georgia promoting frost proof Early Jersey Charleston Wakefields Succession and Flat Dutch cabbage plants for early spring planting. Prices listed for 1000 2000 and 5000 plants with prepaid mail options.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Early
Jersey
Charleston Wakefields
Express
Parker Farms
Moultrie
Notice to Contractors Sealed bids sought for county needs
Notice states that sealed bids will be received until noon on the first Monday in January 1920 for supplies or improvements to the county home and road districts with authority to reject any or all bids as needed.
Bridge and depository district notices in Mississippi
Four bridges and a county depository for 1920 are outlined in Beat 1 areas between Whit tington and Iddo Lewis and near Will Dear and Alonza on Pearl River. Clerk J A Robinson records the details. An advertisement touts Prickly Ash Bitters as a digestion aid.
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Grant's Ferry Road
Whittington’s
Iddo Lewis
Will Dear’s Place
Pearl River
Alonza
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Southland
A. {. Gladden, Jr
Washington
Iowa
Red Cross Kiddies
Borvitér
Jaggs
Udars
Mberola
Edison
U.S. A
Mataine
Hristmas
Edison’ S
Batte Furniture CO
Capitol St
Jackson, Miss
Gardners
J. A. Robinson
A. Thornton
Just
Tennessee
Kentucky
W. B
J. H. Collier
Brandon, Miss
The
Will
Jaghsow
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