Notable Red Cross Aid Restores a French Family
In wartime France a widow Mme Pellier and her children endure loss as German bombardment destroys home and fields. Red Cross relief provides shelter, clothing, seeds, medical care, and schooling, restoring hope and rebuilding family life across a shattered landscape.
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Red Cross
Cunaren
Mme. Pellicer
France
Lorraine
Mme.Pellier
Mme. Pellier
Belgian Relief Commission
Ellier
Grimare
Germany
Mme. Pel- Mer
el Jane
Italian Officer Gives Shirt to Newborn on Train
An Italian officer and Red Cross workers helped a mother who gave birth on a crowded train. The officer stripped to his shirt to wrap the infant, saving the baby from exposure as refugees endured hours of hardship. Mother and child were later cared for by the Red Cross.
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Red Cross
Bologlia
Italy
Red Cross Canteen Delivers Warm Refreshments to Troops
A wartime Red Cross canteen offers weary soldiers ten minute respite with hot coffee and man sized ham sandwiches. The scene reflects the Army's praise of Red Cross service, noting its reach depends on members and funds, as stated by a commanding general.
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Red Cross
Avoid Its Dangerous Stage and Catarrh Remedy Claim
An advertisement urges readers to avoid local sprays and inhalers for catarrh and consumption warning that only a blood cleansing remedy, S. S. S., can reach the disease source. It promotes a free medical advice offer from Swift Laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Swift Laboratory
Atlanta
Freezone corn treatment promises instant relief
A Cincinnati man promotes Freezone a small drug store bottle that claims to loosen and lift corns with a few drops. The ad asserts no pain before or after application, even for hard or soft corns and calluses as the skin remains unharmed.
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Cincinnati
Market Reports Show Local Grain and Butter Prices
The Star lists daily local market offerings with prices for winter and spring wheat flour, corn, cracked corn, middlings, bran, barley feed, timothy hay, various butter grades, fresh country butter, and young chickens. Baltimore market figures cover butter, live poultry, corn, and hay with nearby prices.
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Lahiae
Baltimore
Virginia
Prinia
Chronic shopper forgets who waited on her
A woman who bought embroidery in a store cannot recall the clerk who assisted her. After a pause she asks a salesgirl if she was the customer who purchased the embroidery the day before and is told yes in a blunt reply.
Inquisitive Party on Train Demands Destination
The exchange shows a heated snatched conversation aboard a train. An inquisitive party presses for directions while a noncommissioned officer repeatedly refuses, escalating tension as they mock the idea of where they might go.
Heat From Natural Spring Powers Italian Hospital
At Acqui in Italy a natural hot spring furnishes heating for a large hospital housed in a former school. Water from the spring provides all heating and washing needs, eliminating most fires except for kitchen use. The spring sits at the city center.
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Acqui
Italy
Careless Use of Soap Spoils the Hair
An old health note warns ordinary soaps dry the scalp and make hair brittle. It recommends refined coconut oil as a pure, greaseless alternative that creates a rich lather, rinses easily, and leaves hair soft, silky, and easy to manage.
California Syrup of Figs Advertises Child Cure
An old warning style advertisement urges mothers to use California Syrup of Figs to treat children with stomach issues. It touts gentle liver and bowel cleansing and claims quick relief, noting the product is a safe fruit laxative and should be bought from the California Fig Syrup Co.
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California
California Syrup
California Fig Syrup Co
Public Sale of Unimproved Land in Frederick County
Trustee to offer at public auction a 55 acre unimproved tract two miles west of Gore in Frederick County Virginia. The sale, set for Saturday July 20 at 11 a.m. in Winchester, requires cash on delivery and two annual instalments with bonds and interest at six percent. Property adjoins Ashby Frank William J. Muse Upton J. Pugh and others, deed filed April 24 1912 in Deed Book 133 page 599.
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Frederick County
Winchester
Virginia
Gote
Ashby Frank
William J. Muse
Upton J. ‘Pugh
Wiliam Anderson
Upton J. Pugh
Ee RT
Desirable Winchester Property Listed For Trustees Sale
Trustees sale of a ~13 acre tract near Bethel Church in Winchester Virginia to be held June 29 at noon in front of the house. Purchaser pays two bonds in one and two annual installments from sale date, secured by a deed of trust on the property and a policy of insurance.
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Erick County
J. D. Oates
Winchester
Wirginia
Bethel Church
Sale
Nual
Administrator’s Sale of a Fine Lot of Personal Property
Administrator’s sale of a large lot of personal property at the residence of the late Fannie E. Cather 311 West Street on June 23. Items include beds, rockers, dining chairs, walnut table, rifle, stove, dishes, cookware, glass jars, copper, lard, fruit preserves, milk tins, iron pots, linoleum, refrigera tor, vacuum cleaner, sewing machine, lawn mower, garden tools and many other articles. Proceeds to be administered by M. M. Lynch Admr. of Fannie E. Cather with court notices by Dunn Auds. and R. 3. Smith.
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Nie BH
Cather
West Street
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