September 8, 2026
Tag: Jewish Welfare Board Ship Postcards
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Jewish Welfare Board Ship Postcards
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Nathaniel Sener mailed a Jewish Welfare Board postcard home to his mother in 1919. He was not alone; it could be that as many as 800,000 soldiers and sailors, members of the US Army and Navy, did the same. Nat, as his family called him, lived on a western Maryland farm and most of his…
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The Fischer Quintuplets were born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, on September 14, 1963. They were the first quintuplets to survived after the birth in 1934 of the Dionne quintuplets of Ontario, Canada. At the time of their birth, the statistical odds of giving birth to quints was estimated to be one in 54 million. There […]