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Newspaper
Coatesville Herald
Location
Coatesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1918
Page
2
Danville and Jamestown residents attend visits and nursing care as influenza and pneumonia strike the community. Obituaries note L. M. Christie's death on East Main Street after a relapse from influenza. Suit filings include a quiet title action by Bert M. O'Brien and a divorce case Dassie A. Cummings v Arthur Cummings.
The piece details postwar reconstruction efforts for disabled veterans led by the U S government Army Medical Department and the American Red Cross. It describes hospital care, training for vocations, and the role of the Red Cross Institute for the Blind and other programs to re educate and employ veterans, with local and national support.
The Red Cross man visits everywhere from Paris to the front and brings warmth and tea to soldiers. He is busy serving mates, sharing support, and easing minds with kindness without carrying a gun.
American Red Cross teams head to hospitals near the front to supplement Army casualty reports with more detailed letters to families. The human touch is emphasized as a bond that makes the world kin.
A ten year old girl in a troubled home is helped by the Red Cross Home Service. Her mother was ill and died after hospital care arrangements for the girl’s schooling and country placement were made. The seventeen year old brother enlisted. the other brother sends support. The girl now studies in the country and receives aid from both brothers while under Home Service oversight.
A portable kitchen installed by the American Red Cross on the site of Joan of Arc 's capture supplied tea coffee and other refreshments to soldiers and civilians, serving about 10 000 people daily.
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