German Retreat Expands Red Cross Relief Work in France
As German forces pull back across France extensive destruction requires immediate Red Cross action. Homes for refugees, village reconstruction, clothing, sewing machines, food and medical supplies are in demand. Winter TB control expands with nine six provisional hospitals to be ready. Red Cross aims to visit every French baby with the goal of saving 40,000 lives in 1910.
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France
Red Cross
Ain
The
Red Cross Opens Shoe Factory for Belgian Children
The American Red Cross launches shoe production in Limoges France to supply footwear for Belgian children and other colonial beneficiaries in France.
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American Red Cross
Limoges
France
The Red Cross Symbol and Mercy from Rabbi Silver
Rabbi Abba H. Silver of the Cleveland Temple expresses the Red Cross as a symbol of mercy and healing. He argues that divine gifts follow human faults, with repentance healing wounds and truth easing sorrows. He frames sacrifice and love as responses to greed and hate.
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Red Cross
Abba H. Silver
Cleveland
German Prisoners Help Rebuild Belgian Homes
German prisoners are employed by the American Red Cross to rebuild homes for Belgian refugees in a village aiding families left homeless by the invasion. Many prisoners also work in French fields, harvesting crops to ease the burden on women and the elderly still operating farms while men fight at the front.
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American
Red Cross
Belgium
France
Personal notes from Houston visits and relatives
The column lists numerous residents and their trips to Houston for business, shopping, or family visits. Names include Mrs W D Mille Mrs W F Hall and son Ronald D O Martin J D Cooper and family Julia Wander and Max Wander Dick Rich Louis Wander and Miss Lucile Bains E C Downman and family R R Bains Luke Donigan J W Martin and Gussie Hoskins plus many others with brief mentions of locations like Katy Pine Island Beaumont and West.
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Julia Wander
Houston
Max Wander
Dick Rich
Katy
Our City
Luke Donigan
J. W. Martin
Beaumont
German education system and secular aims criticized
The World declares the German educational system faulty like the Turks and aims to destroy Christianity and humanity. The piece notes the “Little Gray Man of Christ” proved their plan impractical and ends with an advertisement for Ald Robertson offering first class carpenter work and furniture making and repair.
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AL d. Roberteon
Food conservation in America saves the world from hunger
The text celebrates food conservation as a national effort that transformed shortages into sufficiency, controlled prices, and strengthened America during World War II while urging individual devotion to the national cause and highlighting opposing hunger caused by Germany.
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Germany
America
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