11/27/1918: Holiday Baskets For Aged and Ill Collected Early: Fund For Thanksgiving Extras Starts at Public Library

Item

Title

11/27/1918: Holiday Baskets For Aged and Ill Collected Early: Fund For Thanksgiving Extras Starts at Public Library

Creator

The Eau Claire Leader

Source

Newspaper Archives

Date

November 27, 1918

Coverage

Eau Claire, Wi

Description

Article describing how local school locations would be used to collect baskets to aid families sick with influenza.

Format

Newspaper

Rights

Public domain. For more information contact Special Collections and Archives, McIntyre Library, UW-Eau Claire.

Publisher

The Eau Claire Leader

transcription

"Offerings for Thanksgiving dinners for the families aided by the Associated Charities will be collected from school buildings early today, or may be left at the old city buildings.

Nearly all the baskets this year will go to very old persons or households where illness is present. For that reason the charity workers hope for a generous contribution of what might otherwise be deemed luxuries; chicken or other meat, oranges, tea and coffee.

Two girls were discussing the subject yesterday. Both agreed the most helpful contribution they could make would be money. Seeking information, they naturally gravitated to the public library, which is still open for reference questions. The librarian agreed to take charge of the fund and H. T. Lange promised to furnish wholesale whatever they saw fit to buy in unbroken cases. One girl thinks tea and peppermints would please old ladies most, but the other hopes for a box of oranges, for invalids would like them, too, she said. "

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