Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1917 . tt v<-£»_ -r- ( %5 $450 ,000 War ReliefDistributed to Allies â pro foflts of more than $450,000 takenin at the National Allied Bazaar atBoston December 9 to 20 were dis-tributed yesterday by the NationalAllied Relief Committee. The sumsgiven to individual organizations, ofwhich there were forty-five, variedfrom $29,000 toâthe B. F. B. PermanentBlind Fund, to $ to Chapter I. W. u» Victoria. Two hundred and fifty thousanddollars was distributed among nine war relief organizations, and $o0,000â was left In the t
Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1917 . tt v<-£»_ -r- ( %5 $450 ,000 War ReliefDistributed to Allies â pro foflts of more than $450,000 takenin at the National Allied Bazaar atBoston December 9 to 20 were dis-tributed yesterday by the NationalAllied Relief Committee. The sumsgiven to individual organizations, ofwhich there were forty-five, variedfrom $29,000 toâthe B. F. B. PermanentBlind Fund, to $ to Chapter I. W. u» Victoria. Two hundred and fifty thousanddollars was distributed among nine war relief organizations, and $o0,000â was left In the treasury for appor-tionment later. The $260,000 was dlW^VeHeTc,Ta\W House. $50,000;war relief in Great Britain and Ire-land $50 000; American hospital andambulance work In France, $50 000;French tuberculosis war victims,$40 000; war relief In Belgium,$?ooo0; war relief work In Russiaand Armenia, $10,000; in Serbia andMontenegro, $10,000; in Italy $10,000;for the relief of, Polish refugees inany country, $10,000. â ] r- -:aynOutL. V^^^- Sta»T» r *j-vv»«. 10^850 was realizcdfojjjjfr Perma nentma^ **tTffunT^for soldier., of The allied nations of Europe at>boentertainment given at the. Colonial!Theatre on Saturday Robert,Middlemiss, of the Kings Own , made bli d by a hand gren-lade in the fighting at GalUpoli, made the-appeal for aid others of his comradessimilarly stricken. He was followed onthe program by Mme. Alva Larreyiuvprima donna soprano of the Grand Opera)of Paris, and a vocalist oi rare charm and power. The recital of Maj. Middlemiss was ex-itromely dramatic and its appeal was In simple language but lullof the spirit of heroism and sacrifice, hisnarrative held the audience and filled hisauditors with a deep sense of the awfulpity of such suffering and an intense de-6ire to alleviate it. Following his wound-ing by a land grenade thrown by a Turkbefore Gallipoli. Maj. tola ofhis passage
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