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Highland Park Press, 5 Dec 1940, p. 15

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served by D nderson, Sally Feuchtwanger. elicate nuances ectiveness with resent day life ie skilled charâ€" 1e cast, Rabbi he play deseryâ€" which he will cek. ‘~at the North Life," the Puâ€" 1940, by Wilâ€" laying in Chi. theme of Rabâ€" an‘s sermon at gregational !s. iing, December Carolyn Amelia and Rosalie Litâ€" rhland Parkâ€"of Strauss, will re 20,000 each, at of the will filed n, clerk of the e widow, Erne 86 Ellis avenue st of the $75,000 s died Nov. 9. ember 5, 1950 Will Prize Play Parkers )00 Bequests INE OF ORIES nd Park 926 ester Horner of ay guests at the home on Wauke OCCA@s10n Israel every 11 o‘clock and cordially welâ€" is located at In â€" and Vernon jery 'elry a@ance ce Ihursday, December 5, 1940 idea to raise money to care for sick children by selling people penny seals to decorate their Christmas letters and packages." The more he thought of it ,the more enthusiasâ€" tic he became. The royal family of Denmark became interested and the money was found to print the seals, They sold so rapidly that soor there was money eough to build a chilâ€" dren‘s hospital and the lives of many little ones were saved. . Then it came to America. A Jacob Riis, a great American who had come as a poor emigrant boy from Denmark, received one of these Christmas Seals on a letter from his old home.. At once he wrote to find out about it, because he was that sort of man. When he secured his information, he thought the idea was a good one for America too, so he wrote an article about it for a popular magazine. And down in Wilmington, Delaware, a woman who wanted desperately to aid a tuberculosis pavilion for some sick children whom she loved, read the article. and decided to try the Christmas Seal idea. Her name was Emily P. Bissell,. â€" XMAS SEAL SALE BEGUN IN COUNTY <In America there was no royal family to whom to turn. Miss Bisâ€" sell took her idea to a newspaper. The editor was not interested at first, but a reporter, Leigh M. Hodges, who knew the ways of the people who make up the nation, was so enthusiastic that he soon won over the eidtor.. "Tell Miss Bissell the North American is hers for the holidays. Give her all the time you can spare and take all the space you need," ordered the chief. When one day a little newsâ€"bey came into his office with ‘a penny for a seal and said "Gimme one. Mé sister‘s got it," Mr. Hodges knew that the Christmas Seal was certain to sucâ€" CE f7 DC n W né Al The part that the Christmas Seal th its doubleâ€"barred cross plays carrying on the Crusade against rerculosis is very interesting. The ristmas Seal is not so very old. man in Denmark first thought of Einar Holboell, and he worked a post office. One day he asked nself, "Why wouldn‘t it be a good cial Plea For er Conâ€" ninal 4. «B ds / wo a Fhat was the beginning in Amerâ€" in 1907. That this idea, sprung im the people, is nourished by the ple, is shown by the size of the ces and the number of contribuâ€" e first Seals ever sold in IIliâ€" wereâ€"printed â€"by ~the Lake ty Tuberculosis institute. They all in one color, bore the words, County Tuberculosis Instiâ€" and had on them the doubleâ€" 1 cross. The first Seal Sale a total of $600.00. 1920 the Lake County Tuberâ€" i institute was reâ€"organized the name of the Lake County culosis association, and since ime in 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932; 933 received asilver lovingâ€" or the gross Seal Sale in the of Iilinois, outside of Cook . ~Theseâ€"cups. were won with its of from $5,068.50 to $8,â€" The last four years the associaâ€" tion ‘has been only able to reach third place in total sales in Illinois, outside of Cook county. This has been due to strong associations in DuPage county and Winnebago county. Winnebago was first, Duâ€" Page second with an amount slightâ€" ly over $10,000.. Lake county came in third with $9,471.14. on A For the 1940 Christmas Seal Sale, the Lake County Tuberculosis assoâ€" ciation has mailed 18,120 regular letters with two to five sheets of advise sending SKOKIE VALLEY LAUNDRY washing to dry gets .white clothes, because their uniforms are laundry washâ€" ed. They know, too, that clothes washed in the laundry are surgiâ€" cally clean. R the Laundry" Nurses know how white the launâ€" All your clothes and linens, washed cleaner than you can do them at home, then. ca_l‘refully ironed. Wearing apparel is hand finished. Your bundle is packed so that your laundry reaches you without a wrinkle. e iee, ‘‘we nurses always Bundle Try Our Special Skokie 20 Everything Finished. Shirts 10¢ extra. pounds T HE PR ES 3 $2.25 Christmas Seals. . Quietly in the mail every â€"year to thousands. of families in Lake county go thousâ€" ands of letters containing these seals. No oratory is needed to stir the people. If they want to buy all of the seals, or part of them, or if they wish to give a larger contriâ€" bution than the amount of seals in the letters, they may sond the money into Seal Sale headquarters in the Court House, Waukegan. Some cannot afford to keep the seals, others knowing this to be Highland Park 3310 Laundry washing protects your clothes, relieves you of drudgery, saves you money, and actually protects your family‘s health, since elothes washed by modern laundry methods are so clean that they may be termed pasteurized. Scientific comparisons â€" made beâ€" twéen home and laundry methods of laundering showed that â€"the laundry is a more sanitary place for washing than the home, and that laundry methods not only get clothes shades whiter, but sterile, free from germs. Tests made of final rinse waters showed the presence of bacteria in home rinse water, indicating that home v;::hed clothes are not surgically C n. «Ally true, send a larger contribution to make up for this loss. This year, also, the association mailed 1,080 letters with special pleas for a larger contribution than the regular letter. Some of the letâ€" ters contained Christmas Seal Sale Health Bonds from $5 to $100, from which "the emciation’ has had a very generous response in the first three days of the sale. HELEN C. NIBLACK, Seal Sale Chairman. 16 38 d $8 C it 43

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