Campaign Launches for Thirty Million Dollar Relief Drive
Estimates from Near East reports show 2.9 million destitute refugees in need as Turkish capitulation shifts responsibility to relief groups. Red Cross covers Syria and Palestine, leaving American relief workers to aid 2.9 million souls including 400,000 orphans with no support. Many displaced are in Arabia, Mesopotamia, Syria, the Caucasus and Siberia.
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Near East
Turkey
Red Cross
Syria
TH Pitts
Arabia
Mesopotamia
Caucasus
Siberia
Turkish Empire
New York
Hoowever
Famous Old Cough Syrup Recipe Promises Quick Relief
A cured sounding remedy touts a famous old cough syrup recipe claiming rapid relief within hours. The ad promotes Pinex with a sugar syrup base and offers directions, urging buyers to request two and a half ounces for home use.
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Nda
Ant
Jong Tim
Pinex Co
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Move on Quick Command at Crossroads in Battled Village
An account by George T. Bye describes a Tennessee mounted police sergeant directing traffic at a chaotic crossroads in a heavily damaged village. American forces advance independently of the British Fourth Army as lorries and troops pass through without clear direction signs.
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Fourth Army
German Officers Arrested Amid Occupation Tensions
Dec 10 dispatch reports General von Tesma arrested and handed to the French, with rumors of a broader roundup of German officials including the ex Kaiser. Von Tesma, former Luxemburg military governor, allegedly ordered mass executions in Arlon. In Munich Bavarian Bolsheviks hold power while Berlin sees street battles and rising casualties as guards are deployed.
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Arlon
Belgium
Grayve
London
Munich
Republic
Bavlia
Copenhagen
Germany
Berlin
Doctor Could Not Help Her
Brooklyn woman tells how a displacement and two bouts of inflammation left her in misery until Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash were tried. She credits the remedies with curing her troubles and avoiding surgery.
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Lydia E.pinkham
Brooklyn
N. Y
Lydia
Pinksham
Kentucky Tobacco Leads U S Supply and Prices
Kentucky farmers have enjoyed high prosperity since 1915 and now receive about three times earlier wartime prices. About 80 percent of the 250 million pounds of barley tobacco used in the United States is grown in Kentucky. Prices rose as European production halted during the war, draining stocks. after the war demand keeps prices high and stocks tight, with dealers predicting keen competition next year.
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Louisville
Dee
Kentucky
Weather Report from December 10 1918
Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau reports at 6 am and 6 pm the day’s temperatures 26 degrees mean for the date and 30 degrees high, 21 degrees low, with NW wind. Relative humidity 76 percent. Precipitation total since January 1 16.85 inches versus normal 12.38 inches. Highest wind velocity 4 miles per hour from the northwest at 8:45 pm.
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Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Wolockty
Homesteads Popular in Dominion of Canada
Ottawa Ont December 10 Statistics from 220000 Canadian forces overseas show that more than 105000 soldiers or 43.9 percent wish to go on the land after returning to Canada. The Dominion government and provinces are making plans to satisfy this desire of the men who served with the Maple Leaf on the battlefields.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
Pioneer Meeker Donates to Red Cross in Seattle
Evra Meeker the pioneer, famed for guiding settlers along the Oregon Trail, visited Red Cross rooms in Seattle and donated 1.50, saying his payment was a duty and a pleasure, and he does not think anyone should take it from him.
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Seattle
Wash
Evra Meeker
Oregon Trail
Lake Washington
Red Cross
Meeker
Garden Dedication Waters War on Weeds With Hoe
Eight tons of fertilizer donated by a packing firm enriched the ground as irrigation costs were covered by a citizen. Two Red Cross women marked produce. A sign read This garden is dedicated to the Defenders of Liberty. It was Private Meeker’s answer to the Hun.
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Red Cross
Defenders of Liberty
Meeker
Red Cross Doings in the Little Towns
Nov 20 Ma'l reports that the American Red Cross refused defeat as it aided tiny French towns along the Somme Oise and Aisne. In 1917 18 it patched houses mended barns and stables after fires and devastation.
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RED Cross
Paris
Ma'l
American Red Cross
Somme
Oise
Aime
Red Cross Helps French Families Return to Recovered Homes
The American Red Cross began anew to aid French households moving back into reconquered houses near the front line after crops, livestock, and essentials were provided to peasants to restore their livelihoods, only to have the recovery extinguished a week later.
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American Red Cross
Fami
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