Engagement Announcement and War Registration Drive
Mrs. D. B. Walsh announces the engagement of Saidie Gordon Leyden to John Mercer Rice of Belfast Ireland. Alabama women organize registration drives with over two hundred volunteers to support war effort and equal suffrage, led by Mrs Julian Parke and others in Birmingham Montgomery Selma and Anniston.
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Julian Parke
Selma
Equal Suffrage Association
Thomas M. Owen
Montgomery
Alabama Woman's League
Whett Goode
Mobile
Alabama Navy League
James Hooper
Alabama Federation of Clube
Birmingham
Hooper
Tie
Anniston
Mra
Frank ‘Wttamson
Charce
Blue Masten
A. O. Humphries
Xford
J. J. McIntyre
Firereams’ Hall
Hoyt Shaw
Washington Suffrage Protestors Defy Crowds
In Washington on August 11 four women held banners reading Kaleer Wilson that triggered a small riot the day before. Police intervened as the crowd pushed the demonstrators against a fence and destroyed the banner. Organizers plan new banners with German titles aimed at cabinet members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wilson
Kaleer Wilson
Woman Wins National Swimming Championship at Sheepshead Bay
Lucy Freeman of the National Woman's Life Saving League won the national amateur long distance swimming title at Sheepshead Bay. She covered two and a half miles in 1 hour 25 minutes 36.25 seconds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tus
Telemann Mise
Lucy Freeman
National Woman's Life Saving League
Sheepshead Bay
Senator Myers Introduces Prayer Day Resolution
Washington August 11 Senator Myers of Montana introduced a resolution asking the President to set aside a day for national prayer and thanksgiving. The measure requests the President to designate a time for Americans to unite in prayer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Myers
Montana
TASTY TOWN TATTLINGS Such a charming bevy of young girls
In town the Oscar Smiths enjoy Evelyn Byrd Smith who spent babyhood in Anniston. Evelyn plans winter with sister Helen Smith Woodruff in New York and studies journalism at Columbia. Many Judson College graduates and other Alabama belles visit Anniston, attend luncheons and house parties, and aid local registration efforts while awaiting the Noble Institute events.
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Verenda
Evelyn Byrd Smith
Anniston
Evelyn
Helen Smith Woodruff
New York
Frélyn
Judson
Columbia
Matilda Mayneworth
Uniontown
Judson College
Margaret Crook
Almond-Crook
Gadsden
Louise Guice
B. L. Turner
Margaret Nelson
Birmingham
Alabama
Alice
Wort
Dariah Jones
Leighton
Margaret Lea
Mise Lea
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M. Co. A
Trezevant
Walter L. Hervey
Camp McClellan
Hervey
Annistonians
Red Cross
Oxford Lake
Matilda Haynsworth
Evelyn Burt Smith
Francis Coleman
Elizabeth Roberts
Jack Capron
Eugene Turner
William Woods
Tulane Kidd
Charles Leyden
Luther Liles
Eva Powers
Miller Fproull
Miss Powers
Fannie Oliver
Mildred Goodrich
Virginia Allen
Alice Weatherly
Fannie Olver
Virginia Allien
Caroline Sproul
Maither Perrry
Miller Sproull
Gaither Perry
C. W. Sharp
Charles Wheeler, Jr
Don
Ald
Ohatchee
Will
Lucia and
Sara Hinton Edmondson
Mrs
Henry Edmondson
Helen, Ga
Leatle Edwards
Scarbrough's
Charles B. Scorer
C. A. Hamilton
W. A. Dunn
Virginia
Louis Meyers
Maryland
Gordon Jones
Augusta Vaon
Thelma Davis
Gadeden
Nell Jo Gray
Fr Attalla
Lookout Mountain
Elizabeth Willame
Charleston
D. C
Mra B
G. A. Clough
M. L. Payne
Lottie Slaughter
Tallafera
W. L. Evans
Marvi] Hil
Mrs. Lake Edwards
Inez Jay
Mss Hightower
Hattiesburg, Mises
Cc. H. Cleveland
A.L. Turner
Morrisville
Rnmpiston
W. J. Brown
Columbus, Ga
Pape
Odis Poundstone
Yana
Atlanta
New Orleans
Philadelphia
St. Lows
Cincinnati
Liams
Margaret
Elizabeth
Comstock
Viola Farley Goodwin
Viola
Lurner
Greenville
N. C
Agnes Scott
French Fiell
Millicent Blanton
Shelby, N. C
Wilzabeth North
Nownan
Taladega
Harriet Glover
Aniistes Ae
Talladega
Bess
Woodruff Evans
Marvin Wil
Lottie
Mary Louise Thompson
Annis
Cornelia Bliott
Mis. Kyle
Camp Oglethorpe
Mary Louise
Fort Oglethorpe
Chattanooga
Malone
Woodruff
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