Nurses Led Flu Care By County Committee In Adams
Mrs James Riggs Adams County chairman of the C N D speaks for practical nurses who volunteered to care for flu patients. She clarifies the N D did not enlist nurses, Red Cross provided jackets and masks, and W F Kirtley ran the nurse bureau at C N D expense. Only forty nurses volunteered, facing danger and long hours, with some earning standard nurse wages, others volunteering for maternity cases.
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James Riggs
Riggs
R Egs
Quincy
Adams County
Woman's Committee
Red Cross
Bureau of Practical Nurses
W. F. Kirtley
Missouri
Quincey
Adama County
Bureau of Nurses
Liberty Bonds Found In Estate Inventory
Chicago probate reveals A Stamford White former Chicago Board of Trade president subscribed for 162 900 dollars in Liberty bonds. The estate totals 1 178 501 dollars in stocks bonds notes and real property 400 000 dollars real estate, left in trust for his widow son and daughter.
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Chicago
A. Stamford White
Chicago Board of Trade
Bla
Church Lecture Series Announces Two January Talks
On Thursday January 9 at the Presbyterian church Rev G L Losh speaks on Missions and Missionaries. Friday January 10 at Luther Memorial Rev F A McCarty discusses Families Schools Colleges and Youth.
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Presbyterian Church
G. L. Losh
Luther Memorial
F. A. McCarty
Personal notices and social events excerpt
Fancy carnations sold at Heckenkamps while local residents attend dances and concerts. Harmful injuries recoveries, military furloughs, and farewells fill the community notices as churches, theaters, and the Labor Temple host dances and orchestras. Notables include Herbert Wenders improving after an accident, transfers at local businesses, and planned trips to Chicago and New York.
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Heckenkamps
Herbert Wenders
Channon-Emery Foundry
St. Mary’s Hospital
Fuelbier
Bob Roberts
Halbach-Schroeder’s
Quincy
Freiburg
William Steinbeck
Chicago
Y. M. C. A. College
Wiskirchen
Undertaker
Association
Wilkes Gilmer
H. F. Lafler
State Bank
Walter Davidson
New York City
Davidson Millinery Company
Richard Simmons
Camp Sevier
S. C
Herbert Simmons
Riverside
O'Farrell
Labor Temple Dance
George Terwische
New York
McPike
Maywood
J. B. McPike
Earle Caldwell
United States Food Administration
Nebraska
L. C. Flagg
Oak Park
Labor Temple
Morton Hodges
Army Services
Reed Drug Store
Wes Shinn
William Shinn
Park Place
Carl Zang
The
Swift and Company
W. M. Gamble
Lancaster
Good Shepherd Church
R. R. Leever
Burroughs Adding Machine Company
Aberdeen
S. D
Paul Cobbey
M. H. Roberts
Golden
St. Mary Hospital
Labor Temple Dance Committee
Electric Wheel Team Wins Another Game
The Electric Wheel team and the Y M C A defeated Company E and Channon Emery baseball nines in two Industrial Baseball League games at the Y gym Saturday night. The first game ended as a walkover for Electric Wheel with Chewing and Riley as batteries. the second, 47 to 0 at seven innings, with Humphrey and Riley as Electric Wheel batteries and Baldwin and Summers for Company E.
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Electric Wheel
Company E
Channon Emery
Y Gym
Chewing and
Riley
Baldwin
Summers
Humphrey
Borman
Ehart
Otis Elevator
Princeton Professor Edward A. Stevens Reported Safe
A cablegram via the Red Cross from Kjolen Haven Norway says Sargeant Edward A Stevens instructor of physics at Princeton University who was believed killed in France is alive and will return soon. He has not been released from Germany.
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Princeton
N. J
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ORS, Riggs IK ‘Mover
Federation of Churches
Iesunday
Congregational Church
R. H. Hartley
Interchurch Union
Central Baptist
David S. Wahl
Christian Church
I. W. Bingaman
Vermont
R. V. Meigs
Laine
DOD
Copenhagen
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