French soldier in Red Cross care dreams of printing shop
A Lille soldier Waeltele by Bame, 23, with wife and baby, left with 14 cents a day pension after tuberculosis diagnosis. An American Red Cross intervention relocated him to La Mure, Alpes, easing funds for his family while his lungs heal and he envisions reopening his printing shop. The Red Cross handles tuberculosis care amid wartime France.
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Mae Printing Shop
France
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Home Service Helps Soldiers’ Families During Wartime
The Red Cross pledges Home Service to aid soldiers families facing hardship. It emphasizes keeping children in school, managing budgets, obtaining medical and legal help, and preventing humiliation of charity while promoting self reliance and support through organized chapters.
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The Red Cross: Hope of the World in War Time
A wartime oration extols the Red Cross as the spirit and purpose guiding victories. It frames mercy and brotherhood as the motive force sustaining soldiers and civilians amid destruction, insisting the Red Cross embodies humane ideals that endure beyond trench and battle.
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Red Cross Lights Hope Amid France War Ruins
The author recalls a January scene in France showing a bombed village street and four grieving figures a Red Cross flag in a boy s hand. Mme Pellier and her family faced starvation and loss as German bombardments killed husband and sons. Red Cross aid rebuilt life with hospital care clothing seeds and shelter, proving Americans aided by mercy.
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Mme. Pellier
Lorraine
Belgian Relief Commission
Germany
Red Cross
Italian officer gives shirt to newborn on crowded train
A volunteer Italian officer at Bologna told how a poor new mother on a long crowded train could not care for her baby. He removed his shirt to wrap the infant, and the mother and child were later aided by the American Red Cross. This tale reflects the many acts of kindness carried out by Red Cross workers.
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Bologna
Italy
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Red Cross Canteen Delivers Homey Meals to Frontline Troops
The article describes troopers pausing near the trenches for ten minute refreshments at a Red Cross Canteen. Women volunteers serve hot coffee and large ham sandwiches to boost morale as a General notes the Red Cross work is only limited by members and funds.
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