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Newspaper

Tucson Citizen

Location

Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Date

Oct 20, 1918

Page

3

Red Cross Shop Promotes Heating Stoves and Curios

The Red Cross Shop advertises heating stoves and wood fuel, offering various stoves and kindling at low prices. New items include a carved tree trunk souvenir linked to the Emerald Tale and Pioneer history, donated to support the fund. The shop also seeks more volunteer workers, especially mothers constrained at home, reporting to the shop Monday morning.

Red Cross Baxter Tucsean Ireland Arizona John Ellis Batter Trish Twin Butts

Mrs Edwards Interred in Greenfield Illinois

Mrs Edwards, aged about eighty, native of Sangamon County, IL, will be interred in Greenfield. Funeral services are private for her, with burial at her former home in Greenfield. She lived most of her life in Illinois and was the mother of Mrs William Wakefield.

Mrs. Edwards Greenfield, Ill Prvate Nannieecht William Wakeflet Hamne Greenfield Edwards Sangamon County

Relatives Urged to Call News Editor on Arrival

Note asks families of men arriving overseas to telephone information to The Citizen News Editor at phone 6056. The notice seeks prompt transmission of arrival details and is addressed to relatives awaiting word.

Citizen

Soldier Miguel Soto Receives Safe Arrival Notice

A family receives word that Private Miguel Soto of the 109th Trench Mortar Battery, A E F, has sailed on a ship that has arrived safely overseas.

Miguel Soto Soto 109Th Trench Mortar Battery

Social Items Mentions Tempe Visit and Fort Rosecrans Plan

Social notes describe Paul Mebote visiting Tempe Friday evening to spend a few days with relatives and friends then returning to Tucson Sunday evening before departing Monday with drafted ten for Fort Rosecrans San Diego. It also mentions quarantined University rampies invited to a party at Mrs von KleinSmiths home to lift spirits with costumes and entertainment. News includes Ernest Pafford and Roloff Reaves reported to have left university for Officer Training camp and fallen ill with Spanish Flu on the way in San Antonio. Buy More Bonds.

Paul Mebote Tempe Tucson Fort Rosecrans San Diego Mra von KieinSmith Ernest Pafford Roloff Reaves San Antonio

Emergency at Varsity Met by Red Cross

An urgent appeal from the University training camp hospital called for bed-shirts bed-socks and face masks for influenza care. Local Red Cross headquarters mobilized quickly with volunteers sewing and knitting through Friday and Saturday. Workers produced 867 bed-shirts 75 bed-socks 24 shirts and 25 pairs of socks while Arts faculty women quarantined at the roots completed 120 face masks for nurses and doctors.

Jocal Red Cross Tuceen

Sweaters for Fighting Mechanics at UU

The Red Cross asks Tucson residents to donate yarn money or sweaters for University of Arizona workers serving in the military. Knitters will sew sleeveless grey or khaki sweaters, with local donor Anna Moore contributing yarn for two sweaters and knitting three herself.

Nathan Strauss Tucson Ned Cross Red Cross Anna Moore East Third R Street

Red Cross urges aid as influenza spreads in Pacific division

A Pacific Division Red Cross note pleads for nursing volunteers and household aides as influenza widens civilian and military needs. It calls for Christmas box distribution, revised ambulance and bed equipment, and clear labeling for parcel recipients with all chapters urged to recruit qualified women.

Pacific Division Pacific Red Cross

Immigrant Inspector Attends Mother’s Funeral in Texas

Alfred E. Burnett, in charge of the local immigration station, left Sunset near Fort Worth to attend his mother’s funeral. Harlan W. Hall of The Phoenix Republican, promoting the United War Work Fund, passed Tucson on a statewide publicity tour. Epgar Darnali, ill with influenza at Fort Leavenworth Army Hospital, is reportedly recovering. Cardinal Gibbons receives England’s commission at his jubilee as bishop in Baltimore, with a party including Keating, Barnes, and Shane Leslie.

Alfred E. Burnett Sunset Fort Worth Tex Harlan W. Hall Phoenix Republican United War Work Fund Tucson Epgar Darnali Fort Leavenworth Cardinal Gibbons England Baltimore Catholic Hierarchy of Frederick William Keating Northampton William Barnes Oxford University Shane Leslie Dublin Review

War work needs women typists and clerical staff

wartime notice calls for girls to join as typists and clerical workers to support the YMC A, Salvation Army, Y W C A and other groups in the United War Work campaign. It cites Paris reports praising stenographers as crucial to war effort and lists numbers of women already serving in France in various roles from operators to canteen staff and librarians.

U.S. A Theodore Woosscelt Burt Paris Marne Germany Miss McCook Y. McA K. of Salvation Army American Library Association Jewish Welfare Board War Camp Community Service United War Work United States YMCA France Red Cress Dutia R Ovn AELA

Public School Teachers Assist With War Work

Public school teachers assist with war work by volunteering for the local selective service board. They prepare questionnaires and perform clerical tasks for workload on November 1, with many named teachers listed as volunteers and previously praised for service.

Altheve Selective Service Board Fos Aijine Woods Lou Bullfinch Mae Kelly Latorne Townsend Emily Holt Veronica Powers Helen S Nicholson Julia F. Atkinson Iydia Sleight Anna Dwyer Mandrene Brown Goldie Gibson Barth Terpkina Anne Irene Walther Nan Newscomber Julia Keen Adah Lineweaver Florence B. West Gunat Laurene Steven Eva Cattell Margaret Manning McCall Ruth Newcomb Maria Teana Beas Evans Mary Hall Mythe Y Teuffy Mmes Margaret E. Tettie Fiorence B Teague Ber Daniels

Junior Red Cross Busy Despite Quarantine

The Inier Red Cross, reorganized by Mrs Mika Caraventer, continues work despite school closures. Students at high schools and other schools maintain efforts on 162 bedside tables per group, aiming for completion before November 14.

Red Cross Inier Red Cross Mra Mika Caraventer Wee

How Rheumatism Begins and Kidney Health Remedy

Excerpt explains rheumatism arising from kidney failure and uric acid buildup. Promotes GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules as a cure, claiming long history, pageant-like benefits, and direct import origin from Haarlem Netherlands with a U S office in New York.

Haarlem Holland Mite. Co Beewman St

Lille Celebrates Allied Advance as German Retreat Ends

Reports from Lille and surrounding regions describe streets filled with celebration as British troops drive German forces from the area. Civilians, including women and children, wave flags, sing patriotic songs, and press roses to uniforms while refugees head home through war-torn routes.

Bel Oie Cerman Aries Belgum Oyo Ari Iq Citiens Lille Othe Bhoe

Explosion Damages Wells Motor Works Building

A carbide tank exploded at Wells Motor Works on fast LINT street near Third and Fourth avenues Friday. Louis Frekiels protested to the city council after his property detail was damaged. The blast blew out one end of the shop. the council postponed approval for a temporary galvanized iron structure on a residence lot due to the business’s unsuitability in a residential area.

Wells Motor & Webting Works Fast Lint Street Third Fourth Avenues Acroch Louis Frekiels Wells GA. Weile North Sixth Avenue

Exhibition golf matches aid Red Cross net $263775

Exhibition events under the Western Golf Association yielded $263 775 this season for the Red Cross. President Charles F Thompson said two games were played with minimal expenses, limited to traveling and pyotes costs, including a Lakeshore Country Club match that netted $26 900. Buy More Bonds.

Chicago Red Cross Western Golf Association Charlies F. Thompson Thompson Lakeshore Country Club

Death of Charles Cro gat Danvers Hymnwriter and Lawyer

New York October reports the death of Charles Cro gat Danvers a lawyer inventor author and composer known for What a Friend We Have in Jesus plus other hymns He died at his Englewood New Jersey home after a long career in law invention and music.

New York Charles Crogat Danvers Jesus Rey Engiewood

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