Keeping Home Fires Burning Until the Soldier Returns
The Red Cross Home Service aids soldiers families forming a confidential, nonintrusive support network. Volunteers explain finances, allotments, and medical care access. teachers and camp staff help identify needs. Milk stations for sick babies are established, with Italian soldiers’ infants already benefiting from overseas nursing care.
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Red Cross
American Red Cross
United States
Home Service Section
Committee On Civilian Relief
Bureau
Home Service
Children of the Crusade Return to Shelter
Poem depicts frightened children walking through a ruined village street after war. A Red Cross worker arrives as a guiding figure, imagined as Mary, to offer shelter and restore hope for the bereaved youths amid destroyed homes and choking dust.
Red Cross convalescent homes aid wounded soldiers
The piece describes Red Cross convalescent homes serving wounded soldiers, offering home-like care, comfortable surroundings, and gentle routines to ease recovery. It contrasts medical treatment with the deeper need of the soul, noting that patients long for normalcy, laughter, and soft voices amid war’s aftermath.
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RED Cross
Home Service Bureau
Army
General Pershing
War Department
No Seals Sold This Year In Red Cross Roll Call
The Red Cross and National Tuberculosis Association cancel the usual Christmas seal sale and merge efforts to limit public appeals. The War Council appropriates 2 500 000 dollars for anti tuberculosis work in 1919 in place of funds from a seal campaign, while every new Red Cross member receives ten seals.
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Red Cross
American Red Cross
National Tuberculosis Association
Red Cross War Council
The Red Cross Gordon Helps War Wounded
An American Red Cross worker recalls aid at hospitals and stations as American troops pushed Germans back. Soldiers describe shortages, hard tack, and relief when the Red Cross division arrived with chocolate, canned peaches, and other supplies.
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Red Cross
Red Cross Gorden
Parker Fountain Pen as a Gift For Writers
A Parker Fountain Pen is hailed as a reliable gift for business people students and others who write. The ad notes prices from 2.50 to 6 and promotes Parker pens along with quality gift stationery perfumes and toilet articles for Christmas presents. It suggests Ther mos bottles for long car trips and mentions hunters and fishermen as appreciative buyers.
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Parker
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Stenger-Graham Drug CO
the Univ
Willett Bros
Colville, Wash
Andy
Barney
Swers Barney
Peyton Brand
Spokane
Chlosbergs Ientific, Ystem
Washington
Culbertson, Grote-Rankin Department
A. V. Overman & CO
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