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Title: Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1917
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Perkins School for the Blind, formerly Perkins Institution
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Contributing Library: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind
Digitizing Sponsor: Perkins School for the Blind

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oss. Sing for us, was the plea that wassent to her. And partly because she is the daugh-ter of the first man in the land, butmore specifically because she has avery dramatic voice, she was able toturn more dollars into the coffers ofthe society than if she had written animpressive check. Helen Taft, daughter of former Pres-ident William Howard Taft, enlistedstraightway in Herbert Hoovers armyof food conservers. Garbed in sturdyoveralls, her light hair covered by ahuge farmers hat, the new dean ofBryn Mawr College went forth on thecollege farm at West Chester to helpmake the world safe for democracy. Not content to rest on the laurelsof their father and their four brothers,the Roosevelt girls also jumped to theforeground when we went out to beatthe Hun. Mrs. Nick Longworth, thewife of Representative Longworth, ofOhio, who gave the country Aliceblue when her father was in theWhite House, turned her spaciousmansion in Cincinnati over to the RedCross almost at the outset of the con-flict.
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Miss Elizabeth Harrison, daughter or Benjamin Harrison, instructs her associates atNew York College of Law in military drills and food conservation

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