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Page contains 3 newspaper clippings. Subjects include: report of young women in Canada enlisting with the Military Hospitals Commission to undertake a course in massage in order to serve with a miltary convalescent hospital; a picture of a "new French Tank;" and a picture and short article about the Veterans' Baseball Club in Toronto.

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  • [start clipping] EIGHTY GIRLS ENLIST IN MILITARY HOSPITALS WORKS. 1 photograph Eighty girls from all parts of Canada have enlisted with the Military Hospitals Commission to undertake a course of instruction in remedial massage and to serve in a Canadian Military Convalescent Hospital for a year after graduation. They undergo a course of physical instruction to qualify them for their strenuous occupation and a staff of highly qualified instructors teach them the various subjects required in order to obtain the certificate of a qualified masseuse.In the accompanying illustration the girls are shown taking their morning physical culture drill. The school is situated at Hart House, on the University of Toronto Campus. Fifty graduates of a similar school at Whitby Military Convalescent Hospital have given great satisfaction in the hospitals where they have been employed. The present school will graduate in February, 1918. [end clipping] [start clipping] A UNIQUE IDEA IN BASEBALL UNIFORMS. 1 photograph A rear view of the players of the Veterans' Baseball Club in the Military League, Toronto. Every player wears upon his back the name of one of the famous battles in which the Canadians participated. All players have been overseas and wounded, and some of them wear upon their backs the name of the place at which they were knocked out. The team is a very popular one. The boys, despite their injuries, play snappy ball. [end clipping]
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