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Make Plans i For Poppy Day Here May 27Poppy Day will be observe! throughout thf* United States on Saturday, May 27. with the wearing of memorial poppies in honor of the World War dead, Gertrude M Kennedy, President of the NewtonUnit of the American Legion Auviliary, announced today. The oh gervance wil he led by the Auxiliary women who will distribute poppi* s on the streets during the day.More than eleven million of tin-little r**d memorial flowers havebeen made by disabled World War veterans working In government j hospitals and in poppy workrooms'' maintained by the Auxiliary, saidMiss Kennedy. These flowers are crepe paper replicas of the poppi* s *which gjew on the World War bat tlefield* and among which the dead *and wounded fell.Plans for the local observant*- i of Poppy Day art* being completed ; by the Newton Auxiliary Unit un der the leadership of Mrs. Catherine Drew, Unit Poppy chairman, aided by a large committee. Volunteer workers from the Unit will of i fer popples on the Streets all day 1and will receive contributions for ; the Legion and Auxiliary welfare * and relief work among the disabledveterans and dependent famili* of ;veterans i
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Newton Daily News
Newton, Iowa, US
Tue, May 09, 1939
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