The Shame of America: Young Teachers and Low Wages
A critical piece highlights that 100000 public school teachers are 19 years old or younger and 50000 lack a high school education. It notes salaries for graduate teachers mirror milliners apprenticeships and NYC minimum teacher wages lag behind those for stable workers by $20.
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Illiteracy in America Sparks Calls for School Reform
Public concern rises over four million native-born Americans who cannot read or write, including 700000 men in the first army draft. The appeal targets mothers, educators, and policy makers to expand schooling, improve English instruction, and curb child labor as exposed in Rheta Childe Dorr's article in Pictorial Review.
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America
What Women Want Series Opens in Pictorial Review
Ex State Senator Helen King Robinson authors a provocative piece titled A Fair Field in Sex in this Pictorial Review issue. The first article launches a daring series exploring women’s desires and social expectations, challenging traditional gender roles.
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Five Short Stories Preview Transports Readers Across War and Love
A page of fiction offers edward OReillys A Double Barrelled Friendship and Kellands Pleasure and Business Mixed plus What They Brought Out by Norma Patterson Life changing romance in What They Brought Out and Love Labor by Agnes Mary Brownell Rosa Mundi by Ethel M Dell exploring passion war and destiny in compact tales
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Ethel M. Dell
Four Full-page Pictures in Full Colors The Fight in the Argonne
The Pictorial Review for May presents four full color battle pictures by Chapman Williams Woolf and Mora. The Argonne Lost Battalion in a deadly trap is shown with tree top machine gun fire. Also featured are The Charge at Sedan and News From Home showing a soldier’s letters and home front longing while Base Hospital attack depicts nurses under fire.
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Are You Getting Enough Out of Life
Ida Clyde Clarke explores new horizons for American women in the May Pictorial Review. The piece addresses women in small cities raising children while facing high living costs, seeking greater freedom and opportunity.
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May Pictorial Review
Ida Clyde Clarke
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