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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1919
Page
14
A historical wartime appeal urges readers to support a national drive for 18 million dollars to aid demobilized soldiers and wartime relief efforts. It asks citizens to envision suffering veterans, the poor, and ruined tenements, and to donate as part of the Salvation Army’s campaign to sustain relief services and welfare work.
Governors from 22 states pledge support for the Salvation Army national drive to raise 1,000,000 dollars for home service work. Governor Harding praises the campaign and reiterates the Army’s commendable work nationwide.
Salvation Army to open a free employment bureau in Chicago to supply farm help for the Western States. A portion of the drive will be devoted to raising funds with a target period from September 22 to September 30.
Detroit News recalls a daily event as children chase the sprinkler wagon through Ashaborti streets. The wagon grows crowded with each block, ending near Traum Dall Avenue where about a score of boys and girls play in the cooling spray. A separate Chicago Tribune anecdote describes a girl friend and a fashion moment after a curbside mishap involving a narrow skirt.
A fragment notes that war costs bring significant advantage to Mesopotamia, enabling recovery and development. It highlights the extensive engineering efforts required to prosecute the war and suggests long term peaceful growth will be affected.
A fragmented explanation notes yawns satisfy Nature by supplying oxygen and improving blood flow. It suggests the act relieves the body as a response to a demand, with a sense of immediate bodily benefit and renewed energy after a yawn.
Due to U S demand soy beane sold in Japan for 12.25 dollars per hundred pounds. Strong interest from buyers in the United States drives elevated prices for soy beane in the Japanese market.
Western governors and national leaders pledge assistance to a Salvation Army War Fund drive. Governors Lowden and Phipp of Wisconsin, Allen of Kansas, former Governor Capper, and New York’s Luruzzoli express readiness to serve on the national campaign committee.
For six months ending March 81 1919 the Salvation Army aided Iowa residents with 1 821 people helped 487 baskets of food 1 709 pairs of shoes and clothing 200 000 pounds of coal 4 280 persons helped lodging 451 226 men employed railroad tickets and transport to 10 If the Home Service Drive succeeds it will double aid in the next six months The call asks public support.
The Salvation Army has spent over $40,000 sending telegrams to soldiers families in New York City to notify them of arrivals. The article notes Western Union’s keen interest in the arrival of soldiers and mentions objections to funding messages.
A distorted liturgical fragment presents scattered phrases about aid to strangers for clothing, shelter, drink, hospital visitation, imprisonment, and judgment. The garbled text mentions giving to the needy, with unclear speakers and sovereign voices. The source reads like a fractured sermon or litany.
The Salvation Army runs industrial homes offering work and shelter to men seeking self salvation. Men repair clothing and furniture, bale paper and rags, and are trained to return to wage labor. Homes operate in Minneapolis and St Paul with hundreds of thousands aided this past year.
The Salvation Army is a flying squadron ready to answer every emergency for the poor and needy day or night. It provides winter food clothing and fuel and immediate relief followed by investigation. The organization also offers recreation and weekly vacations for families in need and supports mothers with children during crises.
In a town event a man plans to sell a pig and donate proceeds to the Salvation Army Home Service. The pitch claims one pie buys 276 meals for the poor, funds for 1,000 hospital fruit servings, 60 pairs of shoes for needy children, milk for 1,000 babies for a day, or care for ten girls at the Rescue Home. The appeal asks the public to answer yes today.
At a July 4 ceremony in Marinette Wisconsin in honor of returning sailors and soldiers of Marinette county "Ma" Burdick of the Salvation Army was presented with the Croix de Guerre by Brigadier Smith of the Salvation Army. The presentation capped the last of the preachers' administrations.
President Woodrow Wilson expresses sincere support for the Salvation Army and its mission to reform citizens into better ones. He emphasizes his strong interest in the organization's work and its impact on improving society.
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