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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1921
Page
3
Advertises Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Compound as an easy home remedy to restore natural hair color. Claims it darkens gray hair naturally, evenly, and quickly with daily applications, offering a glossy youthful look. The text notes it is a toilet product not for disease treatment.
A plea asserts that 8.5 million European children face destitution this winter and urges immediate American relief. Hoover and a coalition of churches and charities outline how donations, food, medicine, and transportation support will relieve hunger and prevent famine across Eastern and Central Europe.
Five years of famine have driven Vienna’s death rate from 0.18 to 2.25 per thousand by 1918, with child nutrition collapse and rickets, tubercular risk rising. Hoover relief fed 200000 destitute children. European Relief Council coordinates eight major American groups in a $55 million appeal to avert catastrophe.
Dr Vernon Kellogg, a Hoover staffer, reports Poland faces severe hunger and destitution after war. Since January 1919 Warsaw headquarters fostered vast food imports via Canalg Port, feeding four million people and orphaned children. Eight major groups form European Relief Council to fund food and medical needs for nine and a half million children in Eastern and Central Europe.
The Young Women’s Christian Association promotes relief for 3.4 million starving European children. Polish Gray Samaritans, part of the American Relief Administration effort, run food kitchens and distribution stations across Poland outside Warsaw. Since 1918 they have cared for children, now organizing winter feeding and training local helpers to continue after they depart.
Reports from Dr Plata and the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee detail severe child undernourishment and disease across Poland and Lithuania. Tuberculosis typhus and smallpox accompany widespread malnutrition as underfed Jewish children wander cities seeking bread amid crowded homes and ruined towns.
A Christmas appeal urges donations to save a child’s life. Send checks to the local committee of the joint organizations or direct to European Rules Council at 42 Broadway New York City.
James A. Flaherty of Philadelphia supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus said the order would divert from its policy of avoiding national fundraising to relief European starving and sick children. He noted no separate K of C drive will be held but members will contribute to broad drives as needed in response to Herbert Hoover’s appeal and the European relief emergency.
A composed studio portrait features Mrs Muriel MacSwiney widow of Cork’s hunger strike mayor. She travels to testify before the unofficial American committee of 100 on Ireland’s freedom fight. She is 23 years old and appears in her first formal photograph without adornment.
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