Debarkation System Aids Returning WWI Wounded In Nation
New York dispatch details how 190000 wounded soldiers, 58000 dead and 14000 missing from the American Expeditionary Forces are cared for on return. Ports at New York Newport News and later Boston coordinate medical, recreational and educational aid, with 7306 staff and 10800 bed capacity across eight debarkation hospitals and two base hospitals.
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New York
America
Pershing
War Department
Newport News
Debarkation
American Red Cross
France
Atlantic
Washington
Boston
Medical Department
Army Medical Corps
United States
J. M. Kennedy
Columbia University
Red Cross
Merritt
Mills
Europe
Red Cross Manages Wounded Transport From Ship to Hospitals
At port quarantine stations medical officers board arriving transports to prepare wounded for landing. Men are taken to harbor hospital boats then to debarcation hospitals where ambulances await. Liaison officers join groups, secure hospital cars or trains, and arrange nurse and orderly escorts. When meals are scarce Red Cross coordinates meals along routes. Hospital trains include sleeping and kitchen cars for walking and bed cases. Training of personnel for wide use underway at multiple sites.
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Debraktion
Red Cross
Money to Lend on Farm and City Property
Money to lend on improved farm and city business property and on city residence property at 8 percent. Commissions reasonable. R. B. Blanks, Box 660, Monroe, La. Stockholders' Meeting Ouachita Cotton Mills Co. will meet January 8, 1919, noon to 4 pm at secretary’s office to elect officers and conduct business. A foreign inventor equips a gauge with an arrow to read water level from a distance.
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R. B. Blanks
Monroe
Ouachita Cotton Mills Company
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What is it that never asks questions and yet requires frequent answers
From the Chestnut Tree, a riddle about a doorbell that never asks questions but always needs answers, prompting the reader to think of a common household sound.
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O' Srs
Kr Hee
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Handigan’s Perfumery
Mary Garden Perfumery
Mavis Perfumery
Chase & Collens Co., Ltd
Rexall
Germany
Citizens National Bank OF
Stockholders’ Meeting
Pete
Gente Cay
Banking Club
A. B. C. OF Fortune Building
Our
Joim
Fortune Building
Central Savings Bank & Trus? CO
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