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Purple Heart clubhouse opens in Battle Creek

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dc.date.accessioned 2019-08-27T14:45:42Z
dc.date.available 2019-08-27T14:45:42Z
dc.date.issued 1945-07-13
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.willardlibrary.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/1000000603
dc.description Servicemen from Percy Jones General hospital visit a new clubhouse on opening day, July 15, 1945. The Purple Heart Club, as it was called, was in the renovated Fordham house on West Van Buren Street, just around the corner from the military hospital. Operated by the Percy Jones clubs of the Wilcox-Rich and Kellogg companies, the club afforded patients a place to entertain visitors or simply to relax. More than 200 visited the house on opening day. en_US
dc.format.medium 4x5 BW negative
dc.subject Percy Jones en_US
dc.title Purple Heart clubhouse opens in Battle Creek en_US
dc.type Image en_US
dc.description.envelope PURPLE HEART HOME.
dc.description.photographer Enquirer and News
dc.description.taxonomy Geographic|Battle Creek Area History|Wars|World War II en_US


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Description: Pfc. Leonard J. Lewis of Washington, N.C. talks with Harriet Wilder, inspector at Wilcox-Rich and president of the Percy Jones club there, and Harold I. Dyer, Wilcox-Rich plant manager.
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Description: Pfc. Marian A. Crowl and his wife, Evelyn, of Canton, Ohio, inspect one of the bedrooms with Ada Story of the Kellogg Co.'s Percy Jones club. Crowl was a paratrooper with a division in the Phillip-pines.
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Description: Pvt. Kenneth W. Dygert of Little Falls, N.Y., and Pfc. Richard M. Curan of Chicago play rummy with house mother Mabel Palmer of Ann Arbor.
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