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HALIFAX DISASTER RECORD OFFICE
CHRONICLE BUILDING
HALIFAX, N.S.
March 3, 1918.

PUBLIC ARCHIVES OF NOVA SCOTIA
HALIFAX

JOURNAL
Let Everybody Help!

If every clergyman of every denomination would get in touch with all the families of his congregation and see if any family is giving a home to these mites, believing them to be without friends; if every physician would enquire among his patients whether any little girl had been taken for adoption; if the heads of every institution for children would report any additions since the explosion, giving every possible detail concerning little girls; if every mayor of every town in Nova Scotia would report how many children had come to their towns since the explosion, and send a description of each; if every family that has taken a child would send in a statement of that fact, there probably would be very little trouble in locating the missing child.
But above and beyond else is the necessity of every parent in the city constituting himself and herself a committee of one to help find this little girl and restore her to her father. It is a great work, none greater, and if every newspaper in the Province would lend its aid by telling this story of a heartbroken father and his missing child, one of the tragedies of the disaster might be made to have a happy ending.
Who will try to find Elizabeth Robertson (sometimes called Isabella), aged five years, fair complexion, blue eyes, light hair worn Dutch clip style, formerly of the Protestant Orphans' Home, and last seen in charge of an automobile driver on December 6th, 1917, at the Dartmouth ferry boat?
Your help is needed. Will you give it?

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