Red Cross Calendar and Weekly Sewing Knit Sessions
Red Cross notes list monthly meetings for Catholic Altar Society Methodist Ladies Aid Episcopal Guild Congregational Ladies Aid American Lutheran Aid Yeoman Lodge Norwegian Lutheran Aid Royal Neighbors with First Thursdays through last Fridays. Mondays are for sewing and Saturdays for knitting. Anyone may help on these days, not just the listed groups. Call at the Elk's Home for Red Cross materials or work to be turned in.
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Catholic Altar Society
Methodist Ladies Aid
Episcopal Guild
Congregational Ladies Aid
American Lutheran Aid
Yeoman Lodge
Norwegian Lutheran Aid
Royal Neighbors
Red Cross
The
Elk’s Home
William F. Green
A. H. Brown
Germany
Rev. Halfpenny
Angie
American Red Cross
State Department
Guatemala
Canal Zone
New Orleans
United States
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
America
Loyalty League of
Williston
Red Cross Acre Drive Urges Farmers Help in War Relief
A letter from Ray North Dakota appeals Williams County farmers to donate the proceeds of one acre of the 1918 crop to the Red Cross, minus seed and threshing, to aid wounded soldiers and starving families. The drive promotes a sheet iron Red Cross sign and pledges collected via the Ray Pioneer office, with local meetings and continued relief updates from Guatemala and domestic drives.
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Red Cross
Williams County
RED Cross Chapter
America
American Red Cross Society
Acre
Ray Pioneer
Ray
van R. Brown
Red Cross Auction Funds React to War Efforts
A government agent testified that a tense encounter yielded a strong patriotism lesson. Henzel was arrested and released on bonds. Great Falls manufacturers donated 500 aluminum thimbles to the Red Cross chapter work rooms. Barnesville hosts a Red Cross auction netting over 2500 dollars as stores closed for the day and all activity shifted to the auction of produce and merchandise.
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James Beechy
Red Cross
Aberdeen, S. D
Henzel
Great Falls
Mont
Barnesville
Minn
Emergency Rations and Airplane Materials Highlight War Efforts
A wartime roundup describes emergency rations for troops including maize meals, chocolate and coffee subs, Austrian and Italian army provisions, and various compressed foods. It also details aircraft landing gear construction with spruce and pine wood, metal joints, wide use of wire, dope, linen, aluminum, and thousands of fasteners in a single plane.
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United States
Roosevelt Delighted by Birth of Heirs Eight Grandchild
New York February reports Col Theodore Roosevelt convalescing in a hospital said he was perfectly delighted upon receiving a long distance message from Boston announcing the birth of his eighth grandchild, a son named Archibald B. Roosevelt. Captain Roosevelt, recently promoted, serves with General Pershing in France. No bulletins on his condition were issued today.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Boston
Archie Roosevelt
Roosevelt
General Pershing
France
Archibald B. Roosevelt
Drink Hot Water with Limestone Phosphate Morning Regimen
A health column urges drinking hot water with a teaspoon of limestone phosphate before breakfast to cleanse the stomach, liver, kidneys, and bowels. It claims this daily internal bath improves digestion, purges poisons, and enhances overall well being, comparing it to external cleansing.
Theory Links Pre Columbian Civilizations to Egypt
A Science Progress summary argues that pre Columbian American cultures arose from a cultural wave originating in Egypt. Professor Eliot Smith contends Egyptian culture spread eastward by mariners after 800 BC, influencing India, the Malay archipelago, Oceania, and ultimately the Pacific coast of America, seeding early civilizations.
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Eliot Smith
America
Asia
Pacific Ocean
Egypt
Science Progress
Smith
India
Oceania
Mediterranean
Pacific
Head and Brain It Houses Aims at Thought Craft
The American Boy explains the head as more than a label for identity, a packing case for the brain. It urges boys to learn to use and maintain their minds, to think clearly and prepare for emergencies with steady, practical thought.
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Pete
Jim
Thinking power outweighs sheer numbers in warfare
The text contrasts the value of a single thinking brain with many soldiers. It asserts that a general who can think is far more valuable than thousands of armed troops, since strategic thought surpasses brute force. It uses metaphor about counting beans and lifting a heifer.
Queen Mary's Companion Lady Ampthill Featured
Lady Ampthill a longtime royal household member and close confidante of Queen Mary. She served with distinction during the royal tour and helped her husband as acting viceroy. The Kalka-i Hind gold medal honors her public service in India. In Bedfordshire she supports patriotic and charitable work at Milton Ernest.
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Lady Ampthill
England
Earl of Beauchamp
India
Lord Ampthill
Madras
Kalsar-i-Hind
Bedfordshire
Milton Ernest
Also Mentioned on This Page
Red Cross News
Ray, N. D
Red Cross Acre
Mormon Branch
Bay Lake
Crow Wing County
Minnesota
Bay Lake Auxiliary
Fred Henzel
le Sever Center
R. Pomeje
Pomeje
J.E Pasonault
Main Street
Wilistee
J.e.pasonault
Shikany
University
John Shikany
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