Monday, February 24, 2020

The Day Book on Alexandra wanting to save babies in Moscow orphanages, year 1914

Source:

The Day Book, Noon Edition, published in Chicago, Illinois on April 11, 1914

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1914-04-11/ed-1/seq-21/#date1=1894&sort=relevance&rows=20&words=CZARINA+Czarina&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=3&state=&date2=1918&proxtext=Czarina&y=14&x=13&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2


The highlight:

CZARINA WOULD SAVE BABIES OF MOSCOW

Moscow, Russia. — Because hundreds of children are dying annually in the Fondling [sic] Asylum at Moscow, Czarina Alexandra has ordered an investigation of the cause of this "slaughter of the innocents." Starvation and bad air are said to be the causes of the heavy death toll of babies.


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