Red Cross Corner praises Irvington support and growth
The Irvington Red Cross chairperson thanks volunteers for a successful Christmas roll call with over a thousand memberships, notes junior enrollments at local schools, and highlights new knitting, preserves drives, and hospital improvements including a recreated East View hospital room. The piece underscores ongoing fund needs and the future focus on service over expenditure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irvington
East Irvington
Irvington School
Irving School
Pennybridge
Property transfers and maps in Westchester county records
Multiple property transfer entries list buyers and sellers in Greenburgh White Plains Scarsdale and Hartsdale. Notable items include Hudson P R Rose Co to Florence A Shelton and various parcels with maps of Manhattan Park Belden Park and River View Manor dated December 1918 among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson P.rose Co
Florence A. Shelton
Hudson Hits
Grassi Realty’ Co., Inc
West Bid Savings Bank
Windle
Main St
Bacon
Charlotte V
Julius Blum
Hudson Ave
Mtgo
Carpenter
Agnes
Thomas L. Purcell
Ogden White Plaine
Industrial Realty’ Co
Felice Annunziato
White Plains
Manhattan Park
Scarsdate
Grace B. Gibson
Amd
Riverview Manor
Cronin
Mary Mf
John ‘S. Hazelton
W. Brooklyn
Belden Park
Lot
Italian Savings Bank of
City of New ‘York
Beatrice M. Smyth
Fairview ‘Terrace
Mary
Julia
Mi" Cronin
Brovilyn
Belden Ave
Mortgage notices and a wartime appeal for members
Mortgage transfers listed include Blum to Charlotte V Bacon on Clifton Place, Jeanette A Elsener to Scarsdale Bagemont Corp, and Beatrice B Thomas to Corporate Investing Co with various terms, locations, and amounts. A brief wartime to peacetime appeal invites readers to join with a one dollar annual membership, asserting funds support administration and charitable balances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
Beatrice B
Corporate Investing Co
White Plains
Sherman Avé
Roll Call Means Much to the Nation
The Roll Call of the Nation at Christmas time invites enrollment in the Red Cross to send a message to soldiers overseas and to the world that America will dedicate love sympathy and intelligence to the permanent service of mankind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
America
General Service Badges for Red Cross Workers
Atlantic Division plans recognition for loyal Red Cross workers with certificates and official insignia. Women receive a badge with ribbon and safety pin, men wear a coat button. Awards require minimum hours and consecutive months of service, volunteer or paid. Shipments include 200 white sweaters for nurses by December 31.
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Atlantic
Red” Cross
Red Cross
Pa.james
Tall Restrictions for Public Eating Places Are Removed
White Plains dispatch reports that New York State public eating places face rescission of all restrictions effective Monday December 284. Owners managers and stewards need not report consumption of beet wheat sugar and similar items. Dining room and kitchen posters may be removed. Food will win the war and continued conservation supports economy and price control. Don’t stop saving food.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Plains
Health Insurance as Prussian Labor Policy Examined
A historical critique links compulsory health insurance to Prussian state strategies. The piece cites Kaiser and Chancellor Maximilian, arguing compulsory schemes advance militarism and imperial aims. It notes Germany’s 10 percent wage-bill cost and warns against exporting such systems to England France and America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maximilian
Reichstag
Cologne
Germany
Bismark
America
England
France
Firemen Elect Three New Members for Active Service
Three new members Joseph Sweetman Richard Duffy and Thomas Adams were elected to active work in the Fire Association roster. A January informal Victory Reception is planned for members only at Kaufmans Hastings. A donation to the Firemen's Home at Hudson was noted and a new honor roll tablet was proposed with a committee appointed to arrange it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fire Association
Iast Ovently
Joseph Sweetman
Richard Duffy
Thomas Adams
Wm. Exgerling
Kaufman's
Hastings
Ware
Hudson
Kyle School Alumni Reunion At Cafe Boulevard
The Kyle Camp Alumni reunion will be held this evening at Cafe Boulevard New York with a dinner and an theatre party. Readable menu items feature unusual names and dishes including Frozen Paradise Apple Soup and Camp Birds stuffed with Woodchuck and Skunk Hearts. Committee members Jack Bachrach Lefty Bernhard and Buddy Coyle lead the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kyle Camp
Cafe Boulevard
N.Y
Kyle
Buddy
Jack
Rip van Winkle
Rip's Rock
Peters
Jack Bachrach
Lefty Bernhard
Buddy Coyle
Foresters Entertainment
Hastings on Hudson military to civilian return notes
Hastings on Hudson items show William Leturey to return to NYU after weeks in army uniform and studying. Corporal Hanford to resume at Rutgers College. Lieut-Colonel Newlin to stay on government duty. School Supt Murphy inspired for home improvements. Various residents and visitors noted, including motion picture event at Town Hall and local officials traveling to Chicago. Major F R Lyman expects home in January. Steamer Rablen sails Hudson daily. Private Wm DuVall in Kentucky cannot return for New Year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Leturey
New York University
Corporal Hanford
Ruters College
Newlin
River View Manor
Washington
Charles
Chicago
Felix Koebler
Hudson Heights
Siven
Town Hall
Court
F. R. Lyman
Westchester Hospital
Hudson
Wm. F. DuVall
Kentucky
Grand Jurors List Albany County and War Service Requests
A list of Grand Jurors drawn for January in the Supreme Court at the County Courthouse Plains N Y includes names from Bedford Greenburgh Harrison Ossining New Rochelle Yonkers and White Plains with presiding Judge Seeger. An accompanying letter from Anna May hospital librarian at Fox Hills Staten Island asks for books for wounded in war service and notes ward reading as a comfort with a preference for American western adventure stories and no French content. Also a want ad seeks a married careful chauffeur in Irvington and Ardsley-on-Hudson with address for responses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Hous Plains
A. A. F. Seeger
Bedford
George W. Syph Greenburgh
Wm. L. Bassett
Robert Reheer
Harrison
Stephen V. Britt
John ‘A. Strothkamp
Vernon
George H. Geaney
New Rochelle
Charles Glore
Edwin H. Codding
John Conlon
Ossining
Edgar Storms
RYE
Edward J. Ryan
White Plains
Benjamin T. Elgar
Gren Disvow
David’. S. Boyar
Yonkers
Albert_ Van Houten
John Rosezler
Frank W. Austin
Harry G. Varian
John F. Sherwood
Michael Donohue
Edwin 8. Torrence
Theo. Meister
George F. Downey
John’ H.* Murray
Anna May
U. . Debarkation Hopital
Fox Hills
Staten Island
Soldier Letters from World War I Christmas Message
A November 22, 1918 correspondence from a base officer in France recounts Paris celebrations after the Armistice, homeward hopes, and Christmas greetings. The letter notes ordnance work at the Paris and Irvington posts, wartime gratitude, and reflects on divine providence guiding the Allied victory and peace plans. It mentions Red Cross rolls, decorations for wounded, and personnel movements including Lieut. C. M. Whitmore and others in various posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Judson
Paris
Ordnance Department
Armia
Jwild
New York
Jalson
Poincaire
Place de la Concorde
Irvington
France
Paul
Corinth
Thessalonica
Belgium
America
Chateau-Thier~ry
England
Smaica
Italy
Jesus
Jesus Christ
C. M. Whitmore
C. M. Whitmore, Ws
Red Cross
Walter Finnan
River View Manor
Engineers
Obituary: Mrs Coggins of Irvington Dies After Illness
Mrs Coggins, longtime Irvington resident, passed away Wednesday morning at her daughter Mrs James Primm’s home in Dobbs Ferry. She had been ill for weeks. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at Immaculate Conception Church. She is survived by her daughter Mrs Primm and a son, Joseph, a well known businessman in Dobbs Ferry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotor
Coggins
James’ Primm
South F iMrect
Irvington
Board of Education Seeks Evening Classes After Holidays
The board asks for enrollment in evening classes proposed to include Plain Cooking Physical Culture for Women and Shorthand. Interested persons should contact Principal Fred J. to organize these classes after holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board ‘of Education
Iery
Tal
Fred J
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Red Cros
The
Red’ Cross
Siadly
Katharine
Corbin Parsons
Jpeld
Julia Morris
F Cnitters
Acheson
Hart
East View Hospital
Robt
Smith
East~View ‘Hospital
Major Lindsay
A.R. C
Teed Cross
Abindagt
Will. Beapon
Greenburgh
Long Broadway
John C. Rochester
Franklin M. Haines
Frederick Trevor Hi
Kyle School
Hastings ON
H. H. Murphy
Binghamton
JP. F. Crossman
Warburton Ave
Robert ©. Davidson
Irving
Gramercy Park
C. Howard
Hudson” Helgtté
Utica, N
Irving Smith
River View Place
Clough
National Conduit & Cable Co
Thomas Hogan
U. S. Army
Thurston Hilldring
Mt. Hope Boulevard
Charles Schoen
Syra 19
DLS. A
Jurors Court
Part
Rosition
Ardsley-on- Hudson
P. J. Walsh
West Bid Avenue
New
Everet Maclachan
Base Ordnance Dept
A.B. F
Naval Air Station Padillac
Irvington Parish
van Aken
Stamford Rolling Mills
Stamford, Conn
Carl Stanke
Uazette
Zeo Holais Reynolds
Army and Navy
Washington,d. C
Laura
Key
Mrs
Peter Congine
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