Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1917 — CONVICTS AID THE RED CROSS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CONVICTS AID THE RED CROSS

“Doing their bit” while “doing time,” might be the motto of the convicts of the Eastern penitentiary, Philadelphia. Some of the prisoners are set at the task of rolling bandages for the Red Cross. The men in the picture, along with others, roll 1,000 bandages'a day. Three hundred bandages are placed in each bag. The work is done Under the most sanitary conditions urid under the supervision of a trained Red Cross nurse. Copyright, by International Film Service.