item: #1 of 11 id: 15520 author: Bennett, Ernest Nathaniel title: With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train date: None words: 24707 flesch: 68 summary: But in the hurry of the moment, and very naturally under the circumstances, some seventeen of the Boers who were _bonĂ¢-fide_ ambulance men were arrested on suspicion and despatched with the crafty gunners to Capetown. Wounded men frequently lose so much blood before they are found that their clothes become quite stiff, and the best thing to do is to cut the whole uniform off them and wrap them in blankets. keywords: aar; ambulance; boers; bullets; camp; capetown; course; day; enemy; england; fight; fire; general; ground; kopjes; left; line; long; man; men; modder; people; position; river; shell; soldier; time; train; trenches; war; way; white; wounded; yards cache: 15520.txt plain text: 15520.txt item: #2 of 11 id: 16567 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross date: None words: 42677 flesch: 83 summary: It was chubby little Uncle John who helped Jones carry the wounded man to the ambulance, where they managed to stretch him upon the floor. Finally he asked: Which is Mr. Merrick? Hearing his name, Uncle John bowed. keywords: ajo; belgian; beth; captain; carg; cross; day; doctor; face; french; german; girl; good; gys; john; jones; man; maud; maurie; merrick; patsy; red; ship; time; uncle; uncle john; war; way; wounded; young cache: 16567.txt plain text: 16567.txt item: #3 of 11 id: 17094 author: Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows) title: The Story of the Red Cross as told to The Little Colonel date: None words: 11452 flesch: 85 summary: a Gold Cross of Remembrance, and men would say with uncovered heads, as the old Major had done, If America ever writes a woman's name in her temple of fame, that one should be the name of Lloyd Sherman--_The Little Colonel_! The old man settled himself back in his chair, thought a moment, and then began at the first of his acquaintance with St. Bernard dogs, as if he were reading a story from a book. keywords: colonel; cross; dog; dogs; eyes; face; good; hero; lloyd; major; man; red; story; time; white; years cache: 17094.txt plain text: 17094.txt item: #4 of 11 id: 22095 author: Vandercook, Margaret title: The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army date: None words: 44516 flesch: 79 summary: As sympathetically and as quickly as possible Nona told of the coming of the Russian police. As quickly as possible Nona and Barbara crawled out of their wagon, stamping their feet on the frozen ground and waving their arms in order to start their circulation. keywords: alexis; american; barbara; country; cross; dick; eugenia; eyes; friend; general; girls; great; grovno; life; like; mildred; moment; mother; nona; nona davis; petrograd; room; russian; soldiers; sonya; thornton; time; valesky; war; woman cache: 22095.txt plain text: 22095.txt item: #5 of 11 id: 33990 author: Vandercook, Margaret title: The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory date: None words: 45215 flesch: 76 summary: As a matter of fact it was Charlotta who soon knew more of the history of the present group of Red Cross girls than any one of their number had ever formerly known. So it chanced that the group of Red Cross girls and the little Luxemburg countess became fairly well acquainted with each other's past histories because of the natural fondness of girls for confiding in one another. keywords: american; american red; army; bianca; carlo; charlotta; clark; coblenz; countess; cross hospital; french; friends; german; girl; hersey; home; hospital; luxemburg; major; miss; mrs; present; red cross; soldiers; sonya; time; war cache: 33990.txt plain text: 33990.txt item: #6 of 11 id: 41097 author: Hart, Helen title: Mary Lee the Red Cross Girl date: None words: 35854 flesch: 90 summary: A butler opened the door and they asked to see Miss Mary Lee. Seeing earnest little Mary Lee doing her best to help this worthy but unfortunate family along, he too had become interested. keywords: anderson; aunt; bob; cross; day; edith; girls; good; help; home; know; letty; little; madge; man; mary lee; mrs; quinn; red; ruth; time; tom; way; work cache: 41097.txt plain text: 41097.txt item: #7 of 11 id: 44202 author: Barton, Clara title: The Red Cross in Peace and War date: None words: 245628 flesch: 61 summary: With the aid of a good military map of the island, and of information obtained before sailing as to the location of the different divisions of the army, during the voyage the line of Red Cross work was determined. By a resolution of the Executive Committee the above ladies were appointed a Woman's Committee on Auxiliaries, charged with the duty of organizing auxiliary committees throughout the United States, to assist in Red Cross work. keywords: aid; american; american national; american red; army; articles; assistance; association; august; auxiliary; barton; board; business; camp; captain; care; cargo; cases; central; charge; children; city; clara; clothing; committee; condition; constantinople; convention; corps; country; cross headquarters; cross hospital; cross nurses; cross relief; cross society; cross supplies; cross work; cuba; day; days; department; distribution; duty; fact; feet; fever; field; following; food; general; geneva; good; government; great; hand; havana; headquarters; help; home; hospital; hospital work; house; illustration; international; island; july; kind; leave; letter; life; long; man; material; means; members; miles; military; miss; miss barton; money; months; morning; mrs; national red; nations; need; new; night; number; nurses; officers; official; order; organization; party; patients; people; persons; place; point; present; president; public; red cross; relief; relief committee; relief work; report; return; river; santiago; sea; second; secretary; service; ship; siboney; sick; small; societies; soldiers; spanish; staff; state; suffering; supplies; supply; surgeon; texas; thought; time; treaty; united; united states; war; washington; water; way; west; women; work; world; wounded; years; york cache: 44202.txt plain text: 44202.txt item: #8 of 11 id: 50968 author: Dunant, Henry title: The Origin of the Red Cross: "Un souvenir de Solferino" date: None words: 19173 flesch: 68 summary: Although every house has become an infirmary, and every family has dedicated itself to nursing the wounded officers, that it has gathered in, nevertheless I succeed by Sunday morning in collecting a certain number of women of the people, who assist, as best they can, in the efforts made to help so many thousands of wounded men who are without succor. At last, in 1897, he was discovered in the Swiss village of Heiden, where he was living in misery, in a Home for old men, with almost no means other than a small pension received from the Empress of Russia. keywords: army; austrian; battle; blood; brescia; care; castiglione; days; dunant; field; french; good; having; help; hospitals; left; man; men; number; officers; soldiers; solferino; suffering; war; wounded; wounds cache: 50968.txt plain text: 50968.txt item: #9 of 11 id: 53730 author: Vandercook, Margaret title: The Red Cross Girls in Belgium date: None words: 45435 flesch: 83 summary: Then the next moment Barbara saw Eugenia and herself standing near the opening of a trench in southern France. So once more Barbara felt hurt and left out of things. keywords: american; barbara; belgium; boy; brussels; children; course; cross; day; dick; eugenia; eyes; french; friend; german; girls; good; hand; house; little; mildred; moment; nona; place; prison; room; thornton; thought; time cache: 53730.txt plain text: 53730.txt item: #10 of 11 id: 59536 author: Havard, Aline title: Captain Lucy and Lieutenant Bob date: None words: 75234 flesch: 82 summary: The war is as yet only beginning for Lucy Gordon, and the old, pleasant times are just ending, but, like every other girl in America, she is trying hard to find the courage and cheerfulness which have never yet been wanting in our Service and which are going to help America to win. Lucy Gordon, you've only made fifteen compresses, and you have been quiet enough to work, goodness knows, said Julia at last, looking at her friend with accusing eyes. keywords: away; benton; bob; captain; cousin; day; door; elizabeth; eyes; face; father; german; girls; good; gordon; hand; home; house; julia; karl; left; leslie; look; looking; lucy; major; marian; moment; mother; mrs; new; right; room; sergeant; tell; things; thought; time; war; way; william; words; work cache: 59536.txt plain text: 59536.txt item: #11 of 11 id: 8137 author: Morrison, Gertrude W. title: The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or, Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause date: None words: 40835 flesch: 91 summary: I'll do just as you say, Miss Laura, said the man. Here is the money, Miss Laura, he said, producing a packet of crisp bank-notes. keywords: bank; belding; billy; bobby; boys; carrington; chet; course; cross; gee; girls; hester; high; janet; jess; know; lance; laura; man; miss; mother; play; purt; red; right; steele; street; sweet; time cache: 8137.txt plain text: 8137.txt