Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian: Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of AmericaYoung, Charles Sumner
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Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian: Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of America
Young, Charles Sumner
Barton, Clara, 1821-1912
58. Armenian Massacres, Turkey, Asia Minor, 1896, 116,325.00
expended
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59. Cuban Reconcentrado relief, Spring of 1898, expended 1,300,000.00
60. Spanish-American War at San Juan, battlefield, 1898
61. Cuban Orphan Asylums, Summer and Fall of 1898
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62. Galveston Storm, 1900, expended 130,000.00
63. Typhoid Fever Epidemic, Butler, Pa., 1904
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Total $2,557,025.00
64. Superintendent of the Massachusetts Reformatory for Criminal Women.
One year; appointed by General Butler, then governor of Massachusetts,
1884. _Represented United States Government at International Red Cross
Conferences, as follows_:—
65. At Geneva, Switzerland, in 1884.
66. At Carlsruhe, Germany, in 1887.
67. At Rome, Italy, in 1890.
68. At Vienna, Austria, in 1897.
69. At St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1902.
70. Author of books.
71. Author of lectures.
72. Author of poems.
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The press is the representative of the people.
GEN. JOSEPH R. HAWLEY.
The newspaper is the immediate recorder and interpreter of life.
HENRY IRVING.
Three Thousand newspapers voiced the public opinion of the nation;
thousands no doubt escaped us.
EDITOR—_Clara Barton In Memoriam_ (1912).
The press shapes the fortunes of the world and makes and unmakes with
a breath. CLARA BARTON.
The American press has been to me, to my assistants, and our work, a
band of faithful brotherhood. CLARA BARTON.
Human progress had evolved a “Press” whose lever moved the world.
CLARA BARTON.
Among the dark hours that came to us in the hopeless waste of work and
war on every side, the strong sustaining power has been the _Press_ of
the United States. CLARA BARTON.
I thank the press of my country for its unwavering and genuine
kindness for all the years it has dealt with my name.
CLARA BARTON.
Through all of good report or ill; contradictory, perplexing,
incomprehensible, the one thing that has not only sustained but
astonished me has been the loyalty of the American press.
CLARA BARTON.
THE PRESS AND THE INDIVIDUAL
THE PRESS
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