Legion Urges Women’s Post Aids In Legion Move
New York July 10 Official approval by the national executive committee of the American Legion gives women auxiliaries to local posts formal status. Charters already issued to Yeomen (F) and other women veterans. permanency to be settled at Minneapolis convention in November. Posts forming include Edith Cavell in Brooklyn Betsy Ross in Washington Bothwell Kane in Fort Worth Barbara Frentchie in New York and Martha Washington and Mollie Pitcher on the Pacific coast.
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New York
American Legion
Yeomen
The
Minneapolis
Yeomen (F
Edith Cavell
Brooklyn
Betsy Ross
Washington, D. C
Bothwell Kane
Fort Worth
Tex
Barbara Frentchie
Martha Washington
Mollie Pitcher
Pacific Coast
Brockton Shoemaker Slashes Throat in Apparent Suicide Attempt
Morris Levine a young Brockton shoemaker slashed his throat with a safety razor blade and told a lodger he had tried to end his life nearly two hours after the act. Police ambulance rushed him to Brockton Hospital where doctors hope to save him as he bleeds profusely.
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Brockton
Morris Levine
Brockton Hospital
1400 Women Enjoy Summer Camp Wilsonia Outing
About 1,400 women workers at Wilson & Co Chicago plant are sent to Camp Wilsonia on Lake Michigan dunes in Indiana for a summer outing. Some are married mothers with babies allowed to accompany them. The trip highlights a large corporate welfare excursion to a scenic dunes locale roughly fifty miles from Chicago.
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Wilson & Co
Chicago
Camp Wilsonia
Lake Michigan
Sand Dunes
Indiana
The
Mutual Service
Wilson
Proclamation sparks Irish political tension in Tippferary
The article surveys the land after a Thurley police inspector's murder, noting the crime act proclamation shifts from military to civil tribunals and hints at wider use in Ireland. Sinn Feiners praise the move while Dublin politics worry over home rule, union, and potential federal schemes in the United Kingdom.
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Tippferary
Thurley
County Clare
National League
Parnell
Tipperary
Dublin
Sinn
Ulster Party
Ireland
Trinity College
William Jellett
United Kingdom
Scotland
Wales
Ulster
New Irish Dominion League
Sir Horace Plunkett
Irish Centre Party
Quiet on Sinn Fein Edict Across County Tipperary
Dublin July 10 government proclamation declares Sinn Fein organizations and Irish Volunteers in County Tipperary unlawful associations. Local activities placed under military control and perm its required for entering the district restricting business.
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Dublin
County Tipperary
Ireland
Sinn Fein
Tipperary
Marines Call for Laundry Workers in Paris Island
Laundry workers are wanted by the Marine Corps for immediate duty in a newly installed laundry at Paris Island South Carolina. An experienced worker will lead as quartermaster sergeant. One machinist and one bookkeeper will be rated as sergeants technical.
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Marine Corps
Paris Island
S. C
Tremont Row
Lynn Woman Converts to Democratic Faith at 84
Mrs. Martha A. Flagg, an 84-year-old Lynn resident, credits her Bible study and President Wilson with transforming her from a lifelong Republican. She praises Wilson, critiques Roosevelt and Taft, and reveals strong views on suffrage, equality, and morality, while also venting about women’s dress. She calls the Post “the best paper I ever read.”
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Wilson
Martha A. Flagg
Acorn Street
Lynn
Roosevelt
Taft
Mrs. Flagg
the Post
R-34 Sails Home with Gum and Provisions Aboard
The R-34 returns to America carrying Adams California Fruit Gum as a vital crew item. It supplied airmen courage and steadied nerves during the voyage and the war, with 5,000 gallons of gasoline and food including bread meat potatoes chocolate tea and pound cake. Chewing gum substitutes tobacco for the crew's morale.
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America
Adams California
New York World
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