Call to teachers to serve in Red Cross war effort
A 1918 appeal from the American Red Cross to U S public school teachers invites them to join a nationwide campaign beginning on Lincoln’s birthday and running to Washington’s birthday. It stresses teacher sacrifice for child character education, notes national membership figures, and highlights nurse training needs, regional division gains, and opportunities for women in wartime service.
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United States
American Republic
Republic
Red Cross
Lincoln
Washington
National Education Association
America
Mary C. Bradford
American Red Cross
Ilinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
Nebraska
Southwestern
Atlantic
Gulf
Lake
Mountain
New England
Northern
Northwestern
Pacific
Pennsylvania
Potomac
Southern
Hig’ Department
Gorgas
Panama Canal Zone
France
Panam
Americas
Weekly War News Digest Highlights Home Front and Training
A dispatch reports 1.8 million women in U S agriculture with 759000 in the field. Pathfinding army trucks map routes from manufacturing centers to the Atlantic seaboard, Detroit to coast and Buffalo to sea, linking with four main highways toward France. Camp Kearny and Camp Lewis expand athletic training, boxing and calisthenics for instructors, with two new 16000 to 18000 seat fields funded by contests and entertainments. Attendance at boxing at Camp Upton becomes compulsory for officers and noncommissioned officers.
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Atlantic Seaboard
Detroit
Atlantic
Buffalo
Seaboard
Nesr
Mississippi River
Wisconsin
Illnois
Michigan
Indiana
Ohio
Camp Kearney
Linda Vista
Cal
Camp Lewis
American Lake
Washington
Camp Upton
Yaphank
New York
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Washington, D. C
Ters
Estherville
Raleigh
Ira
Smalley
Rock Island
Fairbanks Morse
John Deere
Bob
Graff & Klein
L. E. Stockdale
John Hansen