Red Cross Christmas Roll Call Urges Hearts and Dollars
A historic plea from the American Red Cross calls all Americans to join the Christmas roll call with just a heart and a dollar. It outlines peacetime relief goals from overseas aid to homefront support, rebuilding, and ongoing health services, stressing unity and moral obligation as nations recover from war.
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American Red Cross
Red Cross
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Belgium
France
Serbia
Romania
Montenegro
Armenia
Syria
Palestine
Russia
Army
Navy
Io Nist
America
Red Cross Aid to War Effort Outlined in 1918
The American Red Cross mobilized 1918 relief with 15 000 30 000 packs of cards and 9 000 000 boxes of safety matches sent to England. It furnished 1 600 000 bars of soap and 25 000 000 cigarettes monthly to France and Italy. About 70 000 Red Cross canteen workers operated 681 sites, aiding 5 000 sick persons on trains and hospitals, plus 3 000 000 postal cards distributed.
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American Red Cross
England
France
Wse Hr
Italy
Archangel
Iberia
Red Cross
Glorious banners rise with scars and rents aloft
Fragmentary lines describe battle banners and banners of triumph. The text celebrates banners and praise, mentioning hearts extolling a cross and a figure named Ted, with quotations and scattered punctuation indicating a poem or interrupted verse.
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Ted
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Locust Grove Township
Hamburg-Northboro Road
Carl ‘Tiller
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Iowa Telephone Company
Fred Larson
Merchants Exchange Bank
Iowa
J. A. Payne
J. F. Baldwin
M. S. Baldwin
R. A. Clayton
United States Railroad Administration
G. McAdoo
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Colorado
Nebraska
Wyoming
S.B. Howard
C. B
Farnam Street
Omaha
Fred. Aldrich
Joplin
Butterfeld
H. G. Butterfield Jeweler
Joplin, Mo
Chas. H. Medford
Bell and Mutual
John Levenster
Vapor Bath Parlor
de. Rhetta
Ireland
T. Mitchell
Bank of Hamburg
William Henderson
Mutual
Lyceum Bldg
Duke Alberson
Fremont
Atchison Counties
George H. Gitz, Jr
Griffith Drug Store
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Jones Auction School
Chicago
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Hamburg Town
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