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Are You Hurt?

Writer: Lawrence Lore
Lawrence Lore
Aug 9, 2024
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Daily Record January 27 1942

 No, these are not group pictures of victims of an air raid on a beauty shop.  They were made to demonstrate various bandages learned by local women in the American Red Cross first aid course taught by Miss Isabel McElroy.  About 50 women were enrolled in the course and met each Monday and Thursday evening to study emergency treatment of injuries.

Those who posed swathed in bandages for the cameraman were:

Seated left to right: Mrs. Lillian Groves, Miss Orpha Wright, Miss Irene Freshour and Miss Evely Keith; Standing Miss Roberta Crews, Mrs. George Sills, Mrs. Kathryn Brooke, Mrs. John Studley, Miss Audrey Pepple and Miss Alma Gilmore.



Seated Left to right Mrs. Percy Montgomery, Mrs. Larkin Moye, Miss Winifred Armstrong,

Standing Miss Ruth Brauer, Miss Vera Bershire, Mrs. Harry Burrell, Miss Mildred Thompson and Mrs. Leslie Plummer.

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