Soldiers of Cheer Bring Comfort From Home To Front Lines
Soldiers of Cheer move under fire to deliver chocolate cigarettes rolls of cookies and fruit to fighters at gun-nests and front lines. Volunteers from Knights of Columbus Y M C A Jewish Welfare Board and Salvation Army carry canteens and letters from home while surgeons provide first aid and stretcher work. Money buys replacements as the work continues beyond front lines.
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Knights of Columbus
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Jewish Welfare Board
Salvation Army
Why You Should Give Twice As Much Now
A wartime fundraising appeal urges Americans to donate twice their prior gifts to seven organizations for 1919. The government set a target of 170,500 dollars to fund morale efforts supporting soldiers with recreation buildings libraries film houses and stage stars. The message stresses unity and immediacy to back troops “from home to the front and back again.”
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