Europeans Pleading For Their Children
European relief pleas stress aid for orphans and hospitals as war devastation looms. American agencies under the European Relief Council seek 3 million dollars to avert a possible last critical European winter, backed by groups like American Red Cross and Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
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Ford
Rebet Organization
American Relief Administration
American Red Cross
American Friends’ Service Committee
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Katerity of Columbus
Foreigners Sending Vast Relief Home
Foreign-born workers in the United States largely unskilled send substantial funds to aid starving peoples in their homeland. Food Relief data show Poland $500,128, Greece Blovakia $759,770, Hungary $86,760, Germany $1,410,600, Austria $2,016,720. Estimates indicate over 60 percent of these remittances come from nationals in the U S. Authorities note about 1.4 million Poles and large numbers of Hungarians Czechs and Slovaks in the City Countrys. The European Relief Council formed to channel aid aims to boost city funds and save 500,000 lives of children.
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Molay
United States
Poland and Belgium amid wartime food relief efforts
A chaotic report outlines Poland and Belgium facing severe hunger as Allied aid organizations, including the American relief administration and church groups, coordinate to feed displaced children. It notes overseas shipments through northern ports and calls for sustained relief to war-torn regions.
Gray Samaritans Rescuing Children Across Poland
The Young Women's Christian Association chapters, through the Polish Gray Samaritans, run food distribution kitchens and relief salons in Poland under the American Relief Administration. About 30 Polish descent volunteers joined a training course in the United States and have since cared for Polish children since 1918, distributing food, arranging supplies, and training local helpers to continue the work across strategic centers and outlying districts.
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United States
Europe
Paluiad
Penland
Poland
Young Women's Christian Association
Pram
Columbus Knights Aid Child Appeal
James A. Flaherty, Philadelphia supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, announced a policy exception to support a Europe relief drive. He said the starving and sick children of Europe require urgent aid and the order will partner with a national campaign for funds while remaining open to other contributions.
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James A. Flaherty
Philadelphia
The
Knights of Columbus
K. of
Harbert Boover
European Relief Council
Aad
Europe
Plaherty
Dismal Swamp Mystery Stirs Bahaya Tales and Legends
Readable fragments describe a fabled dismal swamp where mysterious tribes plait moccasins and guard sacred paths. The piece hints at ghost stories, extinct creatures, and a long vigil by local peoples amid shifting coastal legends and old maps.
Pharagh’s Throne Exhibit at University Museum
A fragmentary account describes Pharagh’s Throne from ancient Memphis becoming a permanent exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The throne was found by renowned archaeologist De Chie Ence and dated to near the Nile mouth, with surrounding relics showing the throne steps and no ramp, linked to biblical-era dispersion.
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Pharagh
Philadelphia
University of Thennsylvania
Phiadelphia
Centuriea Ty
University Museum
Wea
Alte
Memphis
Nile
Pmnce
Mernepiah
Wireless radio for lifeboats on ships proposed by inventor
An eastern inventor designs a compact radio system for lifeboats on vessels. The unit provides both telegraph and telephone communication, housed in a waterproof box and grounded to a plate on the boat. A helmeted operator uses a telephone headset for listening and signaling.
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Ile
Costly Bride Sale Opens Hidden Trade in Lace
A fragment notes bills paid by Bank France for costly bride fabric from Limerick and Trento, detailing three spedstone and three yard wide lace with face embroidery. Names and places indicate a European silk lace purchase, suggesting a fashionable wedding purchase routed through French finance.
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Limerick
Trejnad
Dite
Fragmented Echoes of Quips and Quotations in a Ledger
A collage of garbled chatter and jumbled blurbs from a newspaper page includes odd dialogue on electricity, classroom rhetoric, and social mores. Interspersed are snippets of jokes about dogs, engagement hearts, and everyday miscommunications, all conveyed in a dated, typographically tangled prose.
Ambition and mockery in a satirical verse miscellany
A fragmented humor piece ridicules yearning for wealth and status. Poetic vignettes skew ambition, fashion fads, and social pretensions with quips on thrift and flirtation, blending mock speeches and social mores into a playful, era-tinged collage.
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