Mary McDowell and Her Work at the University of Chicago Settlement
Mary McDowell leading Chicago Settlement work has moved Roosevelt to action on labor conditions. She built services for immigrant communities west of the stock yards, led a strike effort, and helped secure a $300,000 appropriation for investigating working women. She acted as Roosevelt’s confidential agent on meatpacking sanitation, pushing broader health legislation.
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Mary McDowell
Chicago
University of Chicago
Brotherhood of Man
Department of Commerce and Labor
Miss McDowell
Ashland Avenue
Forty-seventh Street
Gross Avenue
Union Stock Yards
Roosevelt
Congress
America
University of Chicago Settlement Board
Miss MacDowell
United States
Washington
Commissioner of Labor
National Sociological and Economic Associations
League For Labor Legislation
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
American Federation of Labor
Mary McDowell Visits Ames for Talks and Receptions
Miss Mary McDowell of Chicago visits Ames with a schedule of talks and social events. She addresses Margaret Hall girls on The Other Girls, attends receptions hosted by the YWCA and QS club, and speaks at Alumni Hall and chapel about social conscience and industrial community issues. She outlines conditions for Chicago stockyards foreigners.
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Mary McDowell
Chicago
Ames
Miss McDowell
Margaret Hall
Q.S. Club
Association
A. B. Storms
Po Phi's
Crawford
Alumni Hall
Chapel
Miss . McDowell
New Methodist Church
Y. W
Inez Hallowell
Florence Armstrong
Ames Social and Library Events Highlight Local Activity
Ames community gatherings fill the week with library reception praise for expanded facilities and new furnishings. An Omaha excursionists planning meeting and multiple social events at campus and churches follow, featuring lectures, dances, and a May 28 Flora Wilson concert.
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Ames
Library Board
Omaha
President Storms
the College
Flora Wilson
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Packing House
Professor Foster
Mary M'Dowell
Warren D. Foster
Iowa State College
Nemo
P. E. O. Society
Wilson Rich
Hultz
Prof. Stevenson
Waterloo
Prof. Knapp
W. J. Semmons
Burnett Avenue
J. R. Wood
Adams Hall
E. T. Hagerman
Box Social
Ladies of the Christian Church
Loughran & Barnes
Miss McKinley
Ethel McKinley
Greer
South Carolina
St. Ansgar
Beulah Poynter
Mary J. Holmes
Mono’s
Odd Fellows Hall
Mason
Mr. Roland
Lewis
E. B. Rhine
Laura Weirick
Galva
Iowa
Belle Carr
Perry
Eva Shugart
Blanche Allen
Nevada
Bernice Snender
Carroll
Olson—Jacobson
Albert Olson
Miss Jacobson
Shaw
West Fall
Gamma Lambda Cha Kappa Sigma
Smith’s Hall
Hughes
Baker
Madison
Wis
Heath, Olney and
Boyer
Ft. de
Richards
Charter Oak
Axtell
Newton
Billarney Perry
Goss
Des Moines
M Chase
Myrick
Olson
Storms
Holoway
Lincoln
Neb
Miss Moore
Council Bluffs
A. H. Munn
Vera Baker
Ruby
Mr. J. Zenor
Burnett
Leland
St. Lou
Zenor
Neva
Mrs. Zenor
Superior
Florence
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