Red Cross Peace Program details tour by Farrand
OCTOR LIVINGSTON FAR RAND chairman of the Central Committee of the American Red Cross will visit Lexington Louisville and Cleveland on October 20 21 and 22 to outline the peace time service plan. The tour covers overseas relief after war and continued wartime duties. The program expands Home Service Nursing Public Health Dietetics First Aid and Junior Red Cross with coordinated Community Health Centers across Ohio Indiana and Kentucky.
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Octor Livingston Farrand
Central Committee of the American Red Cross
Lexington
Indianapolis
Ind
Cleveland
Ohio
Lake Division
Red Cross
Red Cross Assists Veterans With Mental Disability Claims
Red Cross notes many veterans suffer mental disabilities from service and urges claims for compensation. Lake Division Red Cross, Cleveland, reports 3999 men across Ohio Indiana and Kentucky receive mental disability treatment. Home Service department handles applications at any Red Cross office or chapter for prompt referral to the proper bureau.
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Lake Division
Red Cross
Cleveland
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
Home Service Department
The
Red Cross Plans Comprehensive Disaster Preparedness
The American Red Cross aims to build disaster relief preparedness on a scale never before possible as part of its peace program. During the Third Red Cross Roll Call from November 2 to 11 support will be sought. Since 1900 peacetime disasters have caused 1.5 million injuries and $1 million in property losses, with 80 disasters aided in 1917.
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American Red Cross
Red Cross
International Congress of Working Women to Convene in Washington
Working women from around the world will gather in Washington on October 28 for the first International Congress of Working Women. Delegates from 34 countries are invited with ten delegates and ten votes per country. Belgium and Great Britain will send advisors and delegates, including Mme Victoire Cappe and Margaret Bondfield.
Czecho Slovaks and Others Planned for World Women Congress
Czecho Slovaks to attend congress with two industrial women workers en route from Czecho Slovakia and four from Poland to the International Congress of Working Women in Washington on October 23. Mary Anderson, secretary of the International Relationships committee of the National Women's Trade Union League, reports. Also advised that the Telephone Operators Association of the Argentine will send a representative when transport allows. Delegates also coming from Belgium England Switzerland Japan and Italy.
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Washington
National Women’s Trade Union League of America
Finland
Czecho-Slovakia
Poland
France
Japan
Belgium
England
Canada
Mme. Victoire Cappe
United States
Margaret Bondfield
National Federation of Women Workers
Great Britain
Congress of Working Women
Miss Bondfield
Women’s Trade Union League
Philadelphia
Women’s Industrial Organizations of
American League
League of Nations Society
Committee On International Relations
Congress
Raymond Robins
League
Mary Anderson
United States Department of Labor
Agnes Nestor
International Glove Workers’ Union
Julia O'Connor
Telephone Operators’ Union
Rose Schneidermann
New York Women’s Trade Union League
Working Women
International Congress of Working Women
Anderson
Telephone Operators’ Association of the
Switzerland
Italy
International Congress of Working Women Planned for Washington
The National Women's Trade Union League prepares for the first International Congress of Working Women to be held in Washington on October 28. The league, with about 600000 women and over a million affiliated members, aims to improve conditions through wage standards and the eight hour day. Mrs. Raymond Robins leads the international committee with Miss Mary Anderson as secretary, and the event follows requests from Britain and labor groups in France and Italy.
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National Women's Trade Union League of America
Working Women
Washington
United States
National Women’s Trade Union League
American Federation of Labor
National Women's Trade Union League
Women Workers of America
Raymond Robins
League
International Congress of Working Women
Mary Anderson
Women’s Bureau
United States Department of Labor
Great Britain
France
Italy
National Women’s Trade Union League of America
Miss Anderson
The
Trade Union League
International Congress of Working Women heads to Washington
The International Congress of Working Women will meet in Washington on October 28 under the National Women's Trade Union League of America. Mary Anderson of the U S Department of Labor calls the event a historic forum for 12,000,000 American women and asks 34 countries to send delegates. Each country will have ten votes and ten delegates.
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Miss Anderson
United States
Montgomery County High School News Highlights
The October 4 box and pie sale raised $106.55 toward a piano for the grades. Student groups organized athletic associations with William McCracken as boys captain and William Cord as manager. Miss Ida Steele and Miss Jennie Barnes led the girls as captain and yell leader. The Black and Old Gold Literary Society elected Edna Hastie as president, Hobart Grooms as vice president and secretary, and Grooms as correspondent. Professor Barnes of the University of Kentucky visited, and Edna Hastie teaches at Council Bluff before returning to finish her senior year. Freshman and Sophomore classes are named with members listed. Glee Clubs formed for both boys and girls. Eighth grade teacher June Barnes took pupils to Natural Bridge. Agriculture teacher J William Tindsey aided Southern county farmers and spoke on soils and soil fertility on October 10.
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William McCracken
William Cord
Boys’ Association
Ida Steele
Jennie Barnes
Yell
Girls’ Association
Black and Old Gold Literary Society
Edna Hastie
Hobart Grooms
William Settles
Council Bluff
Rosa Nell Guy
Fannie Mac Kendall
Nellie Witt
Mayme Carl
Gertrude Gibbs
Golden Wills
Mary Martin
Bertha Centers
Lloyd Garrison
Price Calk, Jr
William Mason
J. William Tindsey
Ice Cream Supper at Camargo Consolidated School
An ice cream supper is set for Saturday October 18 at 7 30 P M at Camargo Consolidated school to benefit the school and the State Orphans Home. The event promises several features and invites everyone to attend.
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Camargo Consolidated School
Ball Band Rubbers R. E. Punch & Co. Read Advocate Classified ads
Ball Band Rubbers and R. E. Punch & Co. feature in the Read Advocate classified section. Local buyers can contact the firms for product listings and price notes as advertised.
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