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1924: Freewill donations taken for Heart Tag Day, prizes given

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Betty Mann, President, Rock County Historical Society

The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on July 18, 1924:
 
TOMORROW WILL BE “HEART TAG DAY”
 
Every One Asked to “Have a Heart and Help the Unfortunates” by Buying a Tag.
Heart Tag Day will be observed in Luverne tomorrow in behalf of The Volunteers of America, a most worthy benevolent organization founded many years ago by General and Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth.
This enterprise is sponsored by a committee composed of Rev. J. A. Saunders, Rev. O. C. Gross, Mrs. J. W. Hawkinson and Mrs. Carrie Marsden, with Miss Laura Angell in charge of Headquarters in the Ladies rest room.
This is to be a children’s drive to help children, little ones in this state less fortunate than themselves, for the work is to be done entirely by grade girls and boys, who will sell the tags mostly in the residence district.
The Volunteers of America is foremost in the nation in its spiritual work in prison, in its Hope halls and farms for discharged and paroled men, its seventy homes for children, for the aged and for working girls as well as its other numberless benevolences at the holiday seasons.
The tags are to be sold for whatever the purchaser is willing to give, and as incentives to the youthful workers, four worthwhile prizes and movie tickets have been given by Luverne merchants for those securing the largest amounts for their tags. The first prize will be a pair of roller skates given by C. P. Houg; a compact given by Rexall Drug Store will be second prize; third prize will be a silver eversharp pencil, given by Hartenstein’s Pharmacy; fourth prize a box of chocolates given by Palace confectionery. Those who do not win prizes but who secure at least $3.00 for their tags, will receive passes to the new Palace theater.
The committee in charge hopes that everyone will “Have Heart and Help the Unfortunate,” for this is the tag day slogan.
Donations to the Rock County Historical Society can be sent to the Rock County Historical Society, P.O. Box 741, Luverne, MN 56156.
Mann welcomes correspondence sent to mannmade@iw.net.

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