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Show COMFORT BAGS FOR THE NAVY New York, Aug, 22. Before the battleship bat-tleship Kansas leaves New York again, each of the 1,000 men In its crew will have added to his possessions posses-sions a complete assortment of needles, thread and darning yarn, buttons but-tons and other articles. These wardrobe necessities are contained in comfort bags made by the members of the Kansas branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Temper-ance Union. They were completed and sent hero for delivery a year ago, but the Kansas remained too short a time In any port for the comfort-bags comfort-bags to catch up. The women out in Kansas began to get anxious and the secretary of the navy finally took a hand in tho matter. Accordingly, when the Kansas Kan-sas was at Provincetown ten days ago the commander was ordered by the department. to detach the Kansas and send her to Now York for a cargo of comfort-bags. |