Red Cross launches nationwide clothing drive for Belgium
Beginning March 18 the American Red Cross and the Commission for Relief in Belgium plan a seven day campaign to gather at least 6000 tons of clothing for Belgians and occupied parts of Northern France. Hoover urged the effort. Red Cross will collect new and used garments, shoes, blankets and banner cloth for immediate shipment to Europe.
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American Red Cross
Commission For Relief
Belgium
France
Herbert Hoover
Henry P. Davieon
Red Cross War Council
Naional Red Cross Organization
United States
Atlantic Seaboard
Canteen Service for Sammies in France
The American Red Cross will establish front line canteens for American troops in France similar to those aiding French troops. Rolling canteens behind the front will deliver hot drinks to soldiers before and after duty, often under shell fire, with plans to expand to medical relief stations near the firing line.
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American
Red Cross
France
War Council
James H. Perkins
The
Nurses Needed in Military Hospitals Call for Five Thousand
Surgeon General Gorgas of the United States Army asks the American Red Cross to supply five thousand nurses to Army Nurse Corps by June for service in military hospitals at home and abroad. The Red Cross has already provided about seven thousand nurses as a reserve. about thirty thousand are needed this year. Mies Jane A Nelano urges nurses to volunteer and notes an insurance law protecting nurses on duty.
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Gorgas
United States Army
American Red Cross
Army Nurse Corps
Red Cross
Army
Navy
United States
Mies Jane A. Nelano
Department of Nursing
The
Womanhood
America
Way of Some Wives
A brief critique notes wives often judge husbands by faults, as reflected in a Inquirer commentary. The piece suggests women should seek balance and understanding in marriage discussions.
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Cineinnati Inquirer
Milk Men in Too Headline Echoes Boston Transcript
A New York paper carries the playful line Milk Men in Too as a possible headline. The Boston Transcript notes the remark, then the Daily Thought offers a quip about courage to be one's true self.
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New York
Boston Transcript
Daily Thought
A. W. Hare
Bank Statements from Lumpkin and Dahlonega Banks in 1918
Official financial disclosures show assets and liabilities for Bank of Lumpkin County and Bank of Dahlonega as sworn statements. Banks report loans cash real estate, currency and securities, capital stock and surplus, deposits and time certificates with local officials signing March 1918.
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Bank of
Lumpkin County
Dahlonega
Georgia
State of Georgia
A. B. Keith
A.B
Kerri
Garmison
N.W
Jackson
Bank of Dahlonega
W. B. Gravey
April 1 Last Day for Federal Returns
Public notice urges timely filing of 1917 federal income tax returns by April 1. It outlines penalties for fraud and late filing, details extension rules, and stresses that the tax is a wartime obligation shared by all earners. Commissioner D C Roper frames the law as a national duty.
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Collectors of Internal Revenue
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue
Roper
Commissioner Roper
Congress
Ain
Elaine
D. C. Roper
Recipe for Success and the Self-Improvement Ethos
A short piece argues that nation improvement starts with individuals bettering themselves. It cites high manufacturing demand and the idea that success breeds more success, urging people to try the approach even if it begins as make believe. The tone reflects optimistic self-help language.
Barcelona Province and City Population Facts
The Barcelona province covers 2066 square miles with 1 136 OGS inhabitants. The city of Barcelona is Spain’s largest city with a permanent population around 800000.
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Barcelona
Spain
Rich Lands in Cuba
Rich mountain regions of Cuba feature many ridges and valleys of extremely fertile soil that remain largely untouched and resemble their precolonial condition before Spaniards arrived.
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Cuba
Noted Cynicism in Headlines from Syracuse Herald
A terse aphorism appears in the Syracuse Herald quoting the Buffalo News about sad eyed women and love. The line cautions against assuming every sorrowful woman suffers from lost romance and suggests she may have loved and left him.
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Syracuse Herald
Buffalo News
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