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Show RED CROSS SEAL IN HISTORY First Used During the American Civil !War Now an Aid In Fighting Fight-ing Tuberculosis. Red CroBS Christmas seals dato back In their origin to "charity stamps," first used for tho soldiers' relief funds in Boston in 1862, during tho Civil war. After tho Avar, this method of raising money was discontinued discon-tinued In this country for a generation, genera-tion, although It found voguo in Portugal, Por-tugal, Switzerland, Australia, Franco, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Russia, Sweden and other European countries. coun-tries. Thoro are now several hundred hun-dred different types of charity stamps UBed in all parts of the world. Stamps or seals were first used to got money for the antituberculosis crusade in Norway and Sweden in 1904. After being used in these countries coun-tries for three years, as a direct result re-sult of the interest of Jacob Rlls in this movement, the Delaware Antl-Tuberculosis Antl-Tuberculosis association, headed by Miss Emily P. Blssell, and the Red Cross society of Delaware combined in Issuing a tuberculosis stamp. So successful wus this campaign that J nearly $3,000 was realized, and tho next year, In 1908, tho American Red Cross was Induced to issue a national y Red Cross tuberculosis stnmp. From -$V this salo, $135,000 was realized, that 1 u amount being almost doubled In 1909. 'V T,1,s voar. 'or the first tlmo, tho sale I Is organized on a comprehensive basis, taking In all parts of tho United States. A million for tuberculosis tuber-culosis work is confidently expected. |
