Boston Equal Suffrage Association Opens New Headquarters
Boston suffrage leaders gathered at the Little Building to dedicate new offices on the fifth floor. Notables included Mrs. Quincy A Shaw Miss Alice Stone Blackwell and Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird. The Red Cross workroom will produce garments for war refugees and under Mrs Villette Crosby new departments launch.
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Alice Stone Blackwell
Massachusetts Suffrage Association
Charles Sumner Bird
Quincy A. Shaw
Boston Equal Suffrage Association For Good Government
Andrew J. Peters
Judith Winsor Smith
The
Massachusetts Association
Boston Equal Suffrage Association
Julia Ward Howe
Boston Suffrage Association
Red Cross
Villette Crosby
Suffrage Red Cross Committee
William Healy
Massachusetts
Lewis Jerome Johnson
Flossie’s Ring Acceptance Theme From Old City Gossip
A fragment discusses Flossie, praised for accepting more rings from men than any girl, then notes a lack of understanding. It reveals she works as a telephone operator and hints that a man’s popularity comes from what he does not say.
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Flossie
Kaiser
Holland
Europe
Germany
von Hindenburg
New England GIs Released From Rastatt Prison
Washington-Jan 14 Names of New England enlisted men of the American Expeditionary Forces released from the German camp at Rastatt and returned to France listed by the War Department. The names include Thomas F. Conley South Boston Louis G Ziegra Deep River Conn Charles Knowlton Fairfield Conn Eric E Lee Providence R I John W Weberg Southbridge Conn John J Collins New Haven Conn Fred W Chitty New Haven Conn Julius Cohn Pittsfield Edward F Clark Collinsville William T Hill West Haven Ralph Harney Framingham Joseph R Hotn Woonsocket Harold E Masterson Stamford Simon J Doucette Boston William J Earls Hartford
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Washington
New England
Rastatt
France
War Department
Thomas F. Conley
Gold Street
Boston
Mass
Louis G. Ziegra
Deep River
Conn
Charles Knowlton
Fairfield
Eric E. Lee
Massachusetts Avenue
Providence
R. I
John W. Weberg
Southbridge
John J. Collins
Spring Street
New Haven
Fred W. Chitty
Foster Street
Julius Cohn
Pittsfield
Edward F. Clark
Collinsville
William T. Hill
West Haven
Ralph Harney
Framingham
Joseph R. Hotn
Woonsocket
Harold E. Masterson
Stamford
Newspapermen Honor Paul West at Grave
American reporters visit the American Red Cross cemetery place a wreath on Paul West's grave. The well known New York writer and Red Cross worker died in Paris after war work at the western front and surviving a near miss from a shell. He suffered shell shock from the exposure.
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Red Cross
Paul West
New York
Paris
Western Front
Speech on postwar duty and Germany at luncheon
Lieutenant-Colonel Evans receives the Distinguished Services Order as a large luncheon crowd notes the remarkable number of women working. Miss Cayenne replies that women have always worked, now from home and paid for it, reflecting postwar social shifts.
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von Hindenburg
Germany
Evans
Miss Cayenne
British Officer Warns on German Propaganda at Civic Federation Lunch
Lieutenant-Colonel Frank S. Evans of the Royal Artillery urged the New England section of the National Civic Federation to revisionize the cause they fought for and to counteract German propaganda during a luncheon at Copley Plaza.
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Frank S. Evans
British Royal Artillery
Women’s Department
New England
National Civic Federation
Copley Plaza
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