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Two Women Who Helped Make Christmas Healthier
Clara Barton and Emily Bissell are credited with shaping a healthier Christmas through Red Cross work and the Christmas seal campaign. Barton founded the American Red Cross and aided tuberculosis outreach, while Bissell led the 1907 1908 stamp effort that funded open air schools and national tuberculosis programs.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Santa Claus
Clara Barton
Emily P. Bissell
Italy
Strasburg
Comite de Secours
Paris
Golden Cross
Baden
Iron Cross
Germany
Red Cross
Barton
Red Cross Society
Arthur
American Red Cross
Miss Barton
Bissell
Wilmington
Emily Bissell
Delaware
Einar Holboel
Copenhagen
Denmark
Jacob Riis
Outlook
Rii
Philadelphia
North American
E. A. van Valkenburg
van Valkenburg
Miss Bissell
Washington
Pennsylvania
National Red Cross
Sinead A
National Tuberculosis Association
Providence
R. I
Clara
Emily
Western Newspaper Union