Join the American Red Cross This Christmas Season
A wartime appeal from President Woodrow Wilson urges ten million Americans to join the American Red Cross during the Christmas week. The letter frames Red Cross membership as the practical Christmas spirit, supporting overseas relief and war effort efforts in allied nations and the U S. Navy and Army, and calls for pledges to sustain relief work and global gratitude.
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American Red Cross
Red Cross
Woodrow Wilson
Rural School Supervisor Promotes State Aid in Grayson County
C A Jay of Austin, rural school supervisor, tours Grayson county to drum up support for the $2,000,000 state aid appropriation. He will inspect all schools applying for aid, with visits to Pink Hill Hebron Ambrose Bells Tom Bean Bethel Gunter Sperry Grayson Land Viral Chapel Rock Creek Gordonville Sadler Belsher Plainview.
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Sherman
Texas
C. A. Jay
Austin
Grayson County
Pink Hill
Hebron
Ambrose
Bells
Tom
Bean
Bethel
Gunter
Sperry
Grayson Land
Viral Chapel
Rock Creek
Gordonville
Sadler
Belsher
Plainview
Miss Dyer Soprano Delights Dallas Kiwanis Audience
Miss Thelma Jo Dyer a SMU voice student appeared before the Kiwanis Club at the Adolphus Hotel palm garden in Dallas last Thursday. Her enthusiastic reception by business leaders and connoisseurs of talent signals notable early success and public recognition.
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Thelma Jo Dyer
Kiwanis Club
Adolphus Hotel
Palm Garden
Dallas
Thelma Jo
Southern Methodist University
Blue Bird Club Reunites at Mrs. Oran Sears Home
The Blue Bird Club held its last meeting at Mrs. Oran Sears country home. Members enjoyed knitting and fancy work for an hour followed by a delicious luncheon. Mrs. Sears was assisted by Miss Carver Beall of Farmersville and Mrs. Lonnie Gaston.
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Blue Bird Club
No Fireworks This Christmas In Whitewright
State Fire Marshal S W English urges Whitewright to enforce a strict no fireworks ordinance during Christmas 1917. He argues wartime conservation, fire risk to stores and crops, and cites large fire losses in Texas and across the nation. Citizens are urged to observe, and officers to enforce, the prohibition to protect supplies for the war effort.
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S. W. English
Texas
Whitewright
Sheriff Recovers Girl and Soldier in San Antonio Case
Sheriff Biggerstaff returned from San Antonio where Robert Newman, a Camp Travis soldier, abducted Ed Kent's daughter, aged under fifteen, and took her in Kent's car. The girl returned home with the sheriff. Newman remained in military custody until civil orders arrived.
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Newman
San Antonio
United States
Bonham Favorite
Fire damages Bells school house but saved by locals
A fire Thursday night caused about 200 dollars in damage to the Bells school house. The blaze started from a stove around 8:30 PM but quick community effort protected the brick building. E Eden and family moved to a recently purchased farm north of Bells. Eden asked us to forward the Sun to his new address.
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Bells
E. Eden
Mr. Eden
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