Poilus Favor Oysters and Salads at American Canteens
Eleanor Robson Belmont recalls how American Red Cross canteens in France serve real dinners at cost with oysters and salad pleasing poilus. Canteens near rail hubs feed 4000 to 8000 daily, offering morale boosts and companionship. Dispensaries number fifteen, with mobile doctors and nurses bathing babies and treating villages. The piece contrasts wartime work abroad with domestic Red Cross efforts on return.
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Eleanor Robson Belmont
Red Cross
France
Orf
Pollus
John the Baptist
Too Old to Fight Yet Willing to Give
Poem voice reflects aging veteran who cannot join the front lines in Flanders yet pledges to serve the living. The speaker notes years passed since morning light, cannot bear a lance, and cannot go to the shell torn fields, but vows continued service and gratitude that he is not too old to give.
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Flanders
A Message From France Inspires America and France Bond
A France school pupil’s lyric letter, shared through John H. Finley, reflects unity between Americans and French amid war. He recalls hearing French students sing The Star Spangled Banner and cry Vive l Amerique, and contrasts the Yser front with vast oceans between allies and foes.
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France
John H. Finley
Commissioner of Education
University of the State of New York
Lycee Victor Duray
Paris
L’ Amerique
America
The Great American Dollar and the Red Cross Hero
A historical prose piece frames the Great American Dollar as a laborer who grows from toil to a healer. It narrates a shift from luxury to service, then calls citizens to enlist dollars for the Red Cross in wartime aid behind battle lines. The piece extols thrift and human sympathy guiding the war effort.
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Chateau des Halles Kinder Hospital A Red Cross Haven
In the French village near Lyons a former castle, Mangini’s Chateau des Halles, has become a 200-bed children’s hospital and rest home. The Red Cross adapted the splendid site to care for evacuated children, creating big cheerful rooms, a lively play area, and child friendly bathrooms and shower facilities to ease their ordeal.
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Lyons
Les Halles
Chateau Des Halles
Red Cross
Mangini
Riviera
France
Poilus
France mobilizes beds as Red Cross backs war effort
France has created around 7,000 hospital beds since the war began, adding to thousands already existing in 1914. The nation, strained by heavy losses, shelters refugees and orphans while fighting the Great White Plague. The American Red Cross supports tuberculosis care by building and equipping new hospitals, converting existing buildings, and expanding sanatoria as part of wartime relief.
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France
Switzerland
Red Cross
Chauteau Des Halles
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American Red Cross
Weight in gold for a Red Cross angel
In wartime camp life a speaker praises American Red Cross workers, especially a cheerful young Red Cross volunteer behind the counter. He recalls feeling overwhelmed with gratitude and nearly breaking down as he salves his chocolate and imagines painting the angelic helper. He says such volunteers would be worth their weight in gold if they did nothing but stay present.
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American Red Cross
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Before You Close Your Eyes Tonight Red Cross Call
A stirring wartime appeal urges readers to envision France and the Red Cross hospitals tending American soldiers. It emphasizes sacrifice, national spirit, and the need for continued support, noting your dollars fund the Cross and mercy across war fronts.
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France
Can Red Cross
Jry
Red Cross
America
Second War Drive Plans Call for 250000 Red Cross Workers
Plans for the Second War Drive call for the active work of 250,000 Red Cross volunteers who will devote all their time during Red Cross week to raising the second war fund.
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