Red Cross Christmas Seals On Sale In High Point
The social service department of the Woman's club led by Miss Genevieve Moore urges buying Red Cross Christmas seals to fund health work. Seventy five percent of receipts stay in High Point, aiding tuberculosis prevention as deaths have declined 12 percent in North Carolina over four years. Citizens are urged to place seals on mail to boost the effort.
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Red Cross
High Point
Social Service Department
Woman's Club
Genevieve Moore
Vienna Ghastly State After War
Miss Ruth Fry describes severe milk shortages in Vienna and its impact on children. She notes widespread malnutrition, rickets, and tuberculosis, with milk reserved for infants and scarce for others. She calls for international measures to export surplus milk and protect future health.
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London
Ruth Fly
Friends’ War Victim Relief Mission
Vienna
Glycerine Mixture Promises Relief for Digestive Ailments
A trade ad claims Adlerika with glycerine buckhorn bark and other ingredients cleanses the bowels and prevents appendicitis. It purports to ease gas and constipation, with a businessman reporting relief from long standing indigestion and sour stomach. Matton Drug Co.
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Matton Drug Co
Foreigners in Soviet Russia Must Register
The home department commissioner issued an order under the peasants and workers defense council requiring all foreigners in Soviet Russia to register. They must state their parentage business in Russia and their native country political party.
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London
Home Department
Russia
Council of Peasants’ and Workmens’ Defense
U S May Have 10 Feed Petrograd Report
Captain John C. Miller of the U S Army Medical Corps acts as American Relief Administration representative in Reval and Finland, planning to feed Petrograd if the city falls. Lieutenant I W Wahren of Boston also prepared to travel to Petrograd to feed 90 000 Finnish beneficiaries and arrange shipments from Viborg and Reval.
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Hellingfors
United States
Petrograd
John C. Miller
United States Army Medical Corps
Reval
American Relief Administration
Finland
Baltic
Yudeniteh
Miller
Viborg
I. W. Wahren
Boston
Vibrg
Relief supplies to Petrograd face hazardous river voyage
American relief materials on barges ready for dispatch to the Russian port of Petrograd encounter danger due to a mine filled waterway. The Finns struggle to clear deep waters while a sea lane beyond Bjorko hosts British ships and drifting mines. Reports claim new Russian mines replace those destroyed, with several vessels sunk and Viborg lighthouse wrecked.
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Petrograd
Bjorko
Viborg
Kippeh Rock
Panama baseball season stirs Army zone crowds
Sergeant A Castle reports eight team Panama Canal League action in Corozal and Balboa Colon. Corozal seeks pennant with strong garrison teams while turnout grows despite reduced rosters after WWI enlistments. Local enthusiasm runs high as service members and civilians join the Panamanian league efforts and look to another successful season.
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Panama Canal Zone
Balboa
Colon
Corozal
Panama
Turkeys and Guineas Earn From Grasshoppers in North Dakota
North Dakota farmers boost poultry feeding on grasshoppers with successful experiments at the State Agricultural College. Turkeys and guineas fatten early in season, reducing insect pests with minimal effort, while prairie chickens decline in popularity. The Duchess of Aosta, a famed European royal and big game hunter, is noted for her exile-era life and hunting in Africa.
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Fargo
N. D
North Dakota
State Agricultural College
G. R. Greaves
Agricultural College
the Agricultural College
Duchess of
Aosta
Italy
Victor Emmanuel
Duke of
Orleans
Paris
England
Abyssinia
Africa
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Royal Household
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Ago
Hawaii
12Th Cavalry
Mountain Artillery
4Th Field Signal Bn
Signal Corps
11Th Service Co
Wand Quartermaster Department
Marietta
Auroga
Marie
Marietta Paint & Color CO
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