Federal training plan for young citizens gains support
A Chicago driven reform movement led by Mrs. Joseph Bowen and the Chicago Woman's Club wins endorsement at Hot Springs for universal federal training before voting. Fifty Illinois organizations collected national input from leaders, with advocates like Mrs. Juliette Low and Carrie Chapman Catt backing a six month open air program teaching life and governance to all youths. The plan aims to prepare a generation for postwar reconstruction, civic duty, and national unity, stressing health, discipline, and responsibility.
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Arly
Chicago
Joseph T. Bowen
Ehairtman
National Council of Defense
United States
Bowen
Chicago Woman's Club
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Hot Springs
Ark
Edwin T. Johnson
Chicago Woman’s Club
Juliette Low
Girl Scouts
Philip North Moore
St. Louis
National Council of Women
America
Carrie Chapman Catt
National American Woman Sufffrage Association
Movement For Federal Training
James Lees Laidlaw
New York State Women's Suffrage Party
Frederick Schoff
Naional Congress of Mothers’ and Parent-Teachers’ Association
Home Education Division
United States Bureau of Education
Washington
War era labor and service notes from Brighton to London
A wartime summary lists 800000 women in Britain in land work, 425000 railway unions, and up to 10000000 working days lost in the first year due to strikes. It notes two Hendon policewomen, suspension of private employment agencies, 1000 nurses applying for enrollment, and a 5000 roll in New York Red Cross within four days.
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Hendon
England
New York
Red Cross
Four O Clock Breakfast
A brief village vignette from the Birmingham Age Herald features Mr. Cobbles declaring summer plans. He will take any summer boarders only if needed, but emphasizes that he and his hired man will be exceedingly busy and that the sole breakfast call will be at four o clock in the afternoon.
Desertion Claim Battles With Refusal in Court
Retired In Bad Order, Judge The complaint against you is that you deserted your wife, Prisoner I ain't a deserter, judge 'm a refugee. Look at these welts on my head and this black eye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Transcript
Employers Duty in Classifying New Registrants Under Draft Act
A public dispatch quotes General Crowder urging employers to aid selective service boards in deferment decisions. He warns that boards will thoroughly examine questionnaires, and stresses that employer intervention serves national interests by considering industry needs, enlistments, and wartime transfers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Crowder
Selective Service Boards
Army
Navy
Practical Ways to Refresh Menus and Cut Food Costs
A homemaking guide urges systematic meal planning to fight monotony in the kitchen. It suggests tabulating favorite dishes, expanding rice uses, and combining meats with vegetables to stretch funds. tips include mutton with carrots, fruit canning cautions, and inventive uses for fruit in desserts and drinks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tanoy
New York Population Forecast from 1860 Scientific American
A September 8 1860 Scientific American issue forecasts New York City population growth. A city statistician suggests the population could reach 8,267,493 by 1905, a figure broadly aligning with contemporary census estimates.
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New York
New -York
Scientific American
Manual of the Common Council
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Endorsed By Reader
A testimonial from Mrs Courtney of West Oskaloosa Iowa praises Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound for relief from weakness pains and displacements tied to the change of life It urges other women to try the remedy and seek advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts based on its long experience for women’s health issues.
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Osksloosa
Lydia
Pinkham
Lizzin Courtney
8Th Ave
West
Oskaloosa
Iowa
Mrs. Courtney
Lydia E. Pinkhams
Lycia & Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn, Mags
Dinamite through the ages rumor in ancient acetum tale
A European officer questions Livy’s acetum as vinegar meaning and suggests ancients may have known a dynamite like explosive. He cites Marcus Gracis and Albert Alx on two acetum types, links to extinguishing Greek fire, and urges chemists to assess oxygenated, powerful possibilities.
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Alps
Livy
Tibet
Marcus Graeccus
Albert Alx
Toy making programs for war-cripples in Lyons
A Lyons based Becole Joffres now offers commercial training for one armed workers and focuses on toy manufacture. The program studies toy making with serious intent and has begun wholesale toy production on a factory system, assigning separate parts to workers with physical handicaps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Becole- Joffres
Lyons
T. J. Sands Retires After 50 Years in Rail Service
T. J. Sands of Philadelphia ends a half century in rail work and rejects a pension. Milwaukee reports a drop in poverty levels amid ongoing economic adjustments.
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T. J. Sands
Philadelphia
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New York State Woman's Suffrage Association
Illinois
National Woman's Suffrage Association
Brighton
King the Land
Great Britain
Muni
Denver
Golo
Tandard
Pigce
Bnpcs
Watson HE. Coleman
Washington, D.C
Regovenues
Bost Servicay
Hannibal
Milwaukee
Adelius
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