Red Cross notes show Nebraska on fast track and pledges
Central Division Bulletin May 28 reports Nebraska led in quota uptake with 49 of 92 counties oversubscribed on day one. Home Service advises cheerful letters to soldiers to curb desertions, while sewing and quilt work proceed. Local funds rise from Diller Lutheran and service flag committee. The text outlines Red Cross readiness to aid prisoners and Allied wounded, with commitments across Switzerland and Germany.
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Central Division
Nebraska
Frank W. Judson
Home Service
War Department
Red Cross
Wm. Lanman
Frank Beckwith
Roy Greider
Ruby Weddle
Diller Lutheran Aid Society
W. E. Anderson
Service Flag Com
American Red Cross
Switzerland
Germany
France
Red Cross Commission
Ford Tank Prototype Takes Size From Bedstead to Battlefield
The Ford pygmy tank is small and armored, about the size of a double bed. It travels up to twelve miles per hour, with two crew aboard. It shrugs off heavy fire and crosses trenches and obstacles with speed, able to be mass produced rapidly if needed.
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Ford
Harbine Area News Briefs and Community Notes
Local updates include visits by Mr. and Mrs. L B Koenig to Colorado and multiple calls to Steele City for picnics. Numerous residents attend family visits, travel to Topeka and St Louis, and neighbors host a 25th wedding anniversary with 75 attendees. Moving pictures play nightly in P A Buller's Hall as patrons help Wayne Carpenter recover. A patriotic potato bug spraying program and a note on Esther Mann's appendicitis operation are mentioned amid ongoing community life.
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L. B. Koenig
Colorado
Joseph Ellis
Beatrice
Frank Sankey
Olga
Clara
Elsie Koenig
Bertha
Anna
Dorothea Arnold
Eliza
Rea
Leon Koenig
Harry Weddel
Steele City
Louis Koenig
Dick Ommen
Henry Arnold
Topeka
Kansas
FE. Campbells
Alexa Rea
St. Louie
Rose Murray
Central
P. A. Buller
John Carpenter
Harbine
Wayne Carpenter
Fairbury
Aug. Engelman
Engelman
Sam Gaisford
Ellis
Harlen
Weaver
Esther Mann
Ford car shower brings daily bath to children
A portable shower bath arrives at a small cottage as a doctor and nurse give the children a warm, cleansing bath each afternoon. The scene is described with relief at the aid provided by Americans and the Red Cross to people long deprived of basic comforts.
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FORD
France
Lfe
Les Americains
Red Cross
Red Cross Canteen Restores Soldier Hope in France
A frontline Red Cross canteen story from a mother of a soldier in France describes baths, clean clothes, meals, barber services, a movie theater, and dry beds that lift morale. The letter praises Red Cross workers for making soldiers feel human and ready to continue the fight against the Kaiser.
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Canteen
Red Cross
Kaiser
American Red Cross
Ideals as the Basis of U S War Aims Against Germany
Dr. Robert M. McElroy, educational director of the National Security League, argues America fights Germany to defend shared ideals. He declares the United States, though diverse, is united by common thoughts and aspirations worth defending in war.
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Dr. McElroy
National Security League
The
America
Germany
United States of America
Ideals and World Citizenship in the War Call
The speaker urges unity across races and nations to form a common American ideal in World War I. He rejects narrow nationalism, champions democracy and liberty, and questions military might versus moral duty. France Germany and Allies are referenced as the world shifts toward collective security.
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Germany
Montesquieu
Strange Weddings in India in Hindu Ceremonies
Describes wedding rites in Bombay and Hindu temples. Guests throw red powder, bridesmaids drench the bride and mother with water, grandmothers also soaked, priests recite over a burning fire as rice and oil are offered, while the groom waits outside to receive congratulations.
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Bombay
India
People’s Home Journal
Far
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