Former Soldiers and the Red Cross Home Service
After war, millions of veterans turn to the American Red Cross for help through the Home Service Section. Nearly a million cases involve financial aid, job help, back pay, allotments, and compensation, with 1500 to 2000 monthly cases per state. The Red Cross also aids families, investigates destitution, assists clemency and life-issue cases, guides military funerals via the Legion, and supports veterans in hospitals with tuberculosis and shell shock, including aiding claims with the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.
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Red Cross
Home Service
Central Division
Home Service Department
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Nebraska
Alcatraz
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Civilielief Bureau
American Legion
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Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Federal Board
Training sentence incomplete work note for ten men
Isienition states men begin and continue to aid all ten who discontinue training.
First Aid Work Pushed Across Red Cross Program
The Red Cross peace program advances first aid and life saving. In the central division many schools adopt courses, with several hundred teachers trained as instructors. Swimming and lifesaving grow in Muskegon and Ludington, while Milwaukee Chapter reports many graduates and medals issued from Washington. Private institutes order first aid supplies as they join Red Cross chapters.
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Bureau of First Aid
Muskegon
Mich
Chicago
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Ludington
Milwaukee
Busey. Miwwaukee
Washington
Health survey finds underweight rural Iowa children
In Wapello County a Red Cross health survey of 435 children in 24 rural schools shows less than a quarter within one pound of normal weight. Nurses tag 62 children near ideal weight. The piece advocates school hot lunches, notes funding and teacher time issues, and credits Red Cross demonstrations with solving obstacles.
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Social Service Bureauo
American Red Cross
Joes Tal
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Wapello
Wapello County
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Red Cross
Red Cross Pickaninny Car Sparks Iowa Mothers’ Interest
The Red Cross pickaninny car travels through Iowa towns drawing mothers to its message about child care. The feature highlights the car as an instrument of instruction in early child welfare and health practices amid the era’s racial language.
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RED Cross
Iowa
Red Cross infant health tour draws big crowds in Mahaska county
The traveling baby clinic demonstration, featuring a white tub and a tiny pickaninny figure, toured counties to teach bathing and baby care. In Mahaska county the event drew unusually large crowds and similar turnout occurred in other towns as the Red Cross aims to raise infant health awareness. Dr Lulu Hunt Peters cites Albanian infant death rate at 62 percent due to lack of medical care for mothers, many Muslims, per Ebersan posting.
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Mahaska County
Albania
Lulu Hunt Peters
Los Angeles
American Red Cross
Ebersan
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