Red Cross Coordinates Chapter Supplies and Quotas
A division letter outlines Red Cross supply roles for hospital garments and comfort kits, urging chapters to stock raw materials, report inventories, and coordinate with the division. It notes low prices via War Industries Board cooperation and warns against open market purchases.
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Red Cross
Divisional Bureau of Development
American Red Cross
Ital
War Industries Board
Department of the Division
Shea Happenings and Local Visits Reported
Mr and Mrs Martin Fapders and Mr and Mrs V Tgan traveled to Beatrice in the former 8 Dodge Sedan last Friday. Pat Shea was in town Monday. Walter Fisher his wife and baby are visiting at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs J H Steinmetz. Jim Gill arrived Monday from Arizona to work in the harvest fields.
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Martin Fapders
V. T.gan
Beatrice
Pat Shea
Walter Fisher
J. H. Steinmetz
Jim Gill
Arizona
Harbine News Items and Local Notes
Harbine brief items note Mrs A D Smalley leaving for Pennsylvania to visit relatives. Local visits include the Manns of Plymouth and the Wadley family. A rain fell Friday, with hopes for a good corn crop, while Miss Emma Smaltz visits Bertha Arnold in the area. A War Savings Society forms at the schoolhouse with 53 members and over 1600 signed.
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A. D. Smalley
Burlington
Lincoln
Pennsylvannia
Bond
Horace Mann
Plymouth
Chester Clark
Johnnie Morton
Wadley
Fred Sandman
Chas. Sandman
Bear
Emma Smaltz
Harbine
Bertha Arnold
J& Canning
P. A. Buller
Faller i
Belle Handley
Carrie Yontz
Lorena Dodd
Jim Chambers
Fairbury
Harbine Twesday
Wilma Kroetsching
Johnnie Wrigley
Geo. Arnold,Jr
Mies Helen Coffman
Jansen
Conger
Beatrice
Clara Polfus
Thiller
Army builds three temporary offices in Washington in 10 weeks
The construction division of the army completed three temporary office buildings in Washington D C in ten weeks without a contractor. The 8 story block spans 491 feet by 260 feet with 270000 square feet of floor space and was ready for occupancy 24 days after earth clearance began.
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Washington D. C
Army
District Agent Promotes Thrift Stamps over Firecrackers
Jefferson County hosts a temporary U S Labor Office in Fairbury led by Chas Davis who offers help by phone nearly all hours. Friezen's Implement Store assists, Miss Dickenson demos substitutes, and warm weather harms gardens reducing canning supplies. three county threshermen prepare for unified work under 8 E Samuleson.
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Jefferson County
U. S
Fairbury
Chas. Davis
Davis
Friezen
Miss Dickenson
Home Economics
Bebing
E. Samuleson
Nebraska Leads Nation in War Savings and Red Cross Support
Nebraska tops per capita War Savings and Red Cross membership. The state pledged and sold War Savings Stamps beyond its quota since June 28, 1918. Nebraska farmers donated $200,000 in livestock for Red Cross, and every county exceeded its third Liberty Loan quota. The Central Red Cross division including five states supplied 22 percent of surgical dressings to France.
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Nebraska
Treasury Department
Red Cross
Farmer’s War Council
Liberty Loan
The
Iowa
Ilinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
United States
France
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