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Police Woman Reform Town In One Month
Ottawa Illinois June 14 Miss Viola Miller the town’s first policewoman and one of the nation’s few, has rigidly enforced a nine o’clock curfew using a badge a night stick and formal authority. Hired by Mayor Bradford and the city commission at the urging of the local Woman's Club the reform effort centers on discipline and order in civic life.
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