Seamen's Bottle Aids Health Care for Merchant Sailors
A pocket sized glass bottle has become vital for American seamen. It contains a health certificate enabling crew members to access U S marine hospitals and relief stations, with free care aboard foreign voyages and discharge port passages. The bottle, conceived by Dr. Lewis W. Croke, outlines usage and rights under the shipping board program.
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United States Shipping Board
Rupert Rice
United States Public Health Service
United States Marine
United States
United States Coligular
Uncle Sam
Lewis W. Croke
Shipping Board Recruiting Service
Public Health Service
United States Chipping Board Recruiting Service
Marine Hospital Service
Seamen Demand Clean Certificates For Deck Work
A fragment discusses seamen’s need for clean certificates before handling paper on deck or in the engine room. It notes sailors are naturally clean, but rough work risks damage to documents. The text emphasizes precaution and proper conduct aboard.
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World Prohibition by 1925 Asserted by Maine W T U Leader
Mrs Althea G Quinby president of the Maine W T U predicts world prohibition by 1925 with support from over 500000 White Ribboners. She cites education agitation legislation and organization as keys and notes Willard’s 1884 proclamation and the W C T U’s global reach promoting abstinence and temperance worldwide.
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Turner
Maine
Sayn
Althea G Quinby
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Maine W
T. U
Frances E. Willard
U S Fails to Provide Real Help for Mothers and Infants
Washington dispatch notes Julia C. Lathrop's sixth annual Children’s Bureau report urging national facilities and federal aid to maternal and infant care. It cites England and New Zealand as models with lower death rates and highlights persistent prenatal care gaps, high maternal mortality, and infant deaths linked to maternal health.
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Washington
Dec
United States
Julia C. Lathrop
Children's Bureau
United States Department of Labor
Engeland
New Zealand
Mhrreau
United States Census Bureau
Census Bureau
U S Department Sends 20 Films to Russia on Agriculture
The U S department of agriculture has supplied over twenty films to the Russian Zemstvo for propaganda on American farming and industry. Topics include cattle grazing forests lumbering silos silo construction cooperative dairy and poultry work berry growing cement road tests and bridge building.
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Washington
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Committee On Public Information
Russia
Primorekoye
Zematvo
America
Russla
Zemstvo
United States
Department of Agriculture
Arapahoe National Forest
Forested Products Laboratory
Anelé Sini
Pacific Northwest
U. S. Shipping Board Announces Return to Civilian Trade
The Shipping Board acting chairman states that submarine danger has lessened and convoy regulations will end. It aims to restore normal commercial conditions for merchant vessels to compete again. Naval regulations during the war acknowledged and praised merchant sailors and officers for their service.
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U. S. Shipping Board
Shipping Board
Europe
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Naval Service
Maine Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Banner
Enlightened
United Globe
W. Co Tou
Department of Temporanes
General Pershing
Christian Sciente Monitor
U. S
Austria
Mark
WSS
K Wagnalls Company
New York
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