Two Women Behind Christmas Health and Happiness
Clara Barton and Emily Bissell helped shape a healthier Christmas through Red Cross work and tuberculosis charity stamps. Barton led battlefield nursing and Red Cross founding. Bissell launched Christmas seal drives to raise funds for tuberculosis relief, inspiring a national open air school and open air care campaigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
Santa Claus
Clara Barton
Emily P. Bissell
Emily Bissell
Red Cross
Delaware
Einar Holboel
Copenhagen
Denmark
Jacob Riis
Outlook Magazine
Riis
Delaware Red Cross
Miss Bissell
Pennsylvania
American Red Cross
National Tuberculosis Association
Providence
R. I
Western Newspaper Union
John Barton Payne
National Headquarters
Washington
These Cuddle Toys Solve Gift Problems
Pattern 5609 offers four animals with two-piece construction and a bear with an extra jacket. The chick has separate wings and the designs use scraps. send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. in New York for the transfer pattern and instructions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept
West Fourteenth St
New York
N. Y
Foreign Words and Phrases Glossary
A compact list of foreign phrases with translations and brief notes on meaning. Includes terms such as a la francaise, caeteris paribus, insouciance, to judge of the whole from a part, honey moon, tant soit peu, lucus a non lucendo, gutta cavat lapidem non vi sed saepe cadende, and oeil de boeuf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucus
Meat preservation claim spurs smoking product pitch
An old advertisement recounts a South Carolina storekeeper’s eight year aged meat treated with FIGARO Condensed Smoke. It extols thorough smoking to prevent rancidity, worms, and mold, touts cost at under a third of a cent per pound, and notes FIGARO’s long history and large meat-pouring usage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ripley
John 8. Hill
South Carolina
John S. Hill
Hill
Figaro
Eugene Colgin
Texas
Local Dollars Keep Community Strong and Growing
It is the dollars that circulate among ourselves in our own community that in the end build our schools and churches pave our streets lay our sidewalks increase our farm values attract more people to this section. Buying our merchandise in our local stores means keeping our dollars at home to work for all of us.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Capt
Stephen Barton
Oxford
Mass
Claria Harlowe
Samuel Richardson
Bordentown
New Jersey
New England
Barton
Sanitary Commission
Army
Army of the James
Andersonville
Bureau of Records
Switzerland
Geneva
Grand Duchess of
Baden
Society of Mercy
Jean Henri Dunant
Italy
Strasburg
Golden Cross
Iron Cross
Germany
Miss Barton
Red Cross Society
Arthur
Bissell
Wilmington
Michigan
Ohio
Mississippi
Johnstown
Philadelphia
The
North American
E. A. van Valkenburg
van Valkenburg
National Red Cross
Roosevelt
Root
Taft
Baltimore
Renie
Meenie
Minie
Noth
Patter
Medical Journal
Ners
Rea
Luden
Ian Ia
Oleman
Oak
Rita Fee
Bice
Nicholas Bldg
Toledo
Gleaner
Sta. A. Grevaland
Hala Fis
Figaro Co
Pas
Tex
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