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Identifier: belltelephonemag22amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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ays. Telephone service is vitally impor-tant now to military establishmentsand industrial plants, whether they benear big cities or remote from largecenters. Many telephone women,like good soldiers, have volunteeredfor work which requires them to livein places far from home. To these 1943 Telephone Women s War-Tiine Of-duty Activities 43 women, the self-development courseoffers not only many pleasant hourswhile it is in progress; it suggests alsomany hobbies and enjoyable interestswhich may continue to occupy theirleisure moments. Work for the Red Crossand Other Agencies Some telephone women are takingthe standard Red Cross course in struct in proper methods of practicalnursing. Groups of telephone women canbe found in practically any telephonebuilding rest room busily sewing andknitting for the Red Cross. Theyare making caps, sweaters, mittens,gloves, socks, afghans, layettes, andsewing garments for hospital patientsand for children being cared for bythe Red Cross. They have produced
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Since almost everyone has friends or relatives In the armed forces, writ-ing letters to men In service Is an activity in which many can participate home nursing which is given by quali- thousands of articles. In manyfied Red Cross Instructors. The pri- places, classes have been held formary purpose of the course is to give those who wanted to learn to sew ortraining in carrying out necessary knit, with telephone women as in-home routines In the care of Infants, structors. In some cases, the corn-children, and the aged, and to In- panics provide sewing machines.

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