Salvation Army War Service Women Feed Troops Abroad
A wartime Salvation Army report describes women volunteers serving meals to troops, distributing pies and doughnuts, and facing harsh conditions in huts near villages. It notes enemy shelling, severe living hardship, and the broad mobilization of organizations like the YMCA and Knights of Columbus to provide recreation and spiritual support to thousands of soldiers each week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvation Army
Young Men's Christian Association
Knights of Columbus
Jewish Welfare Association
Trained Nurses Sought for Southwest Red Cross
The Southwestern Division of the American Red Cross seeks 1,000 trained nurses in eight weeks for military hospitals at home and abroad. Miss Lyda Anderson urges trained nurses to join government service and young women to enroll in hospital training as nurses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
American Red Cross
Missouri
Kansas
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Texas
United States
Southwest
Lyda Anderson
Red Cross
Teachers' Institute to Be Held in Yoakum This Fall
The tri county institute for DeWitt Gonzales and Lavaca will meet in Yoakum during the week starting September with Prof. A S Bush of Cuero slated as conductor. Readers are reminded to pay their war savings stamps pledge and that newspapers must operate on a cash in advance basis.
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Tri-County Institute
DeWitt
Gonzales
Lavaca
Yoakum
A.s.bush of
Cuero
The
War Industries Board
Prohibition Ratified by Fourteen States
Fourteen states have ratified the national prohibition amendment. The United States will be dry in the course of a year or two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Women urged to join million-strong liberty loan drive
Campaign to enroll 1,000,000 women in active participation in disposing of the next liberty loan kicks off September 28. Organizers aim to mobilize volunteers and maximize support for the war effort.
Roll of Honor List at Texas University in Army
The roll of honor of former students of the University of Texas in the army now numbers considerably more than two thousand. Most of these soldiers are already in France.
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University of Texas
France
UT Expands Role as Nation’s Largest Military Training School
Although the University of Texas is already the largest military training school in the United States, steps are being taken to greatly enlarge the scope of its activities in this respect.
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University of Texas
United States
Red Cross War Fund Total Reaches 17 662 000 in Southwestern Division
Figures compiled on August 15 show the American Red Cross War Fund in the Southwestern Division including Missouri Kansas Oklahoma Arkansas and Texas has reached 17 662 000.
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American Red Cross War Fund
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Texas
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Speer
KAMP
INORG
I*xoko
Beral A
Woutal
Javy
Beefy
Merchant Tallol
Henry Krause
Willie Schroeder
Hanst Pelzel
Severn
Balsam
W. F. Severa CO
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Severa
Salvation Army War Service
Eers
Moulton
C. F. Knape
Pont
Movution
Exuk
Teachers’ Institute
Fist Mate Bank of Moulton
Wm. Green
EK. Studeman
F. T. Fehrenkamp
Philip Welhausen
O. Buescher
Ino. Bucer
E. Studeman
Circe
Bankmoney
EE. J. Franesek & Son
DS Hed
Ries
Koester Bros
OXG
Osaxien
Henry Etlinger
FORD
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