Well Organized Mercy

By early July, those humanitarian patriots interested in operating the local Red Cross branch had organized themselves into a remarkable number of committees.


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Doctors and schoolteachers, lawyers and barbers, pastors and plumbers…. The editors of both Hobart newspapers (A.J. Smith and O.L. Pattee) are on the Information and Publicity Committee. I have no idea how Dr. Clara Faulkner and the Misses Kipp and Halstead intended to instruct women.