Beauty contest seeks prettiest war worker in New England
The Boston Sunday Post invites photos of the prettiest woman in Uncle Sam s enlisted services and allied groups to enter a war worker beauty contest. Categories include Army Navy nurses yeomen telephone operators Red Cross Y M C A and more with staff photographers available to document entrants.
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New England
Boston Sunday Post
Yeomen
Army
Navy
Red Cross
W.C. A
K. of C
Jewish Welfare Board
The
Sunday Post
Prettiest War Worker Rivalry Highlights Volunteer Farm Help
A feature on women aiding the war effort through farm work. Miss Charlotte Truitt, a Smith College student, joined the Woman's Farm and Garden Association and spent a summer at Colonel Gaston's Barre Massachusetts farm, tending gardens and boosting crops. Telephone girls who answered...
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Smith College
Charlotte Truitt
Woman's Farm and Garden Association
Gaston
Barre
Mass
Nurses of Base Hospital 7 and Y M C A canteen girls honored
The piece honors World War I nurses from Base Hospital 7 Tours and Y M C A canteen girls in East Boston. It notes Emma Brousseau and Ellen Daly returning home with service stripes and praises steady toil, patriotism, and cheerful service to sailors in the merchant marine, including long shifts and frequent ice cream and meals provided by diverse volunteers led by Miss Evelyn Knowlton.
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Emma Brousseau
Brockton
Boston City Hospital
Tours
France
Ellen Daly
Emma Nichols
Boston
Sailor Boys
United States Shipping Board
East
Merchant Marine
Evelyn Knowlton
Essex
Mass
East Boston
Elaine Leonard
Janet Graves
Laura de Lorrea
Gene Stalker
Evelyn Raymond
A. F. Donnell
Boston Sunday Post
Charlotte Truitt
Barre
Npit
Wmen’s Farm and Garden Association
Film Service
Base Hospital
Andree's Fatal Dash to the Pole Inspires Modern Flight Feats
Salomon Auguste Andrée the Swedish scientist left on July 11, 1897 with two companions in the largest balloon built at the time for a North Pole expedition. The Sunday Post explains their preparations start and the likely fate of these Arctic air pioneers.
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Salomon Auguste Andree
North Pole
Arctic
Sunday Post
Spitzbergen
Virgo Bay
Andree
Globe
Royal Patent Office
Sweden
Technical School
Swedish Academy of Science
Alfred Nobel
Jittie
Greenland
Arctic Archipelago
Hudson Bay
Point Barrow
Bering Strait
Iceland
Polar Sea
London
Upper Churchill
Arctic Ocean
Canada
Pascal
Prince Albert
Saskatchewan
Lake Winnipeg
White House
Otto F. Wood
Andree's Balloon Lost in the North
A 1897 Spitzbergen expedition led by Salomon Auguste Andrée set the Eagle balloon aloft on July 11 aided by a south wind. Nils Strindberg Knut Hjalmar and Ferdinand Fraenkel traveled toward the North Pole, vanished after sending a final pigeon message, with Eskimo legends offering various fate theories.
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Sweden
Andree
Nils Strindberg
Knut Hjalmar
Ferdinand Fraenkel
Danes Island
Spitzbergen
Virgo Bay
Will Written on Door Carried Into Court
Court proof of wills shows formality matters not the medium. An eccentric testator wrote on a door and the executors had the door unscrewed and moved to court to prove the will. A luggage label bearing a phrase was deemed valid as a will, while a grocer left large bequests on brown wrapping paper.
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BY Cornelia Dingle
E. E. Drake
New England Telephone
Yeomen (F
Navy Yard
Uncle Sam
Holland
BY Eric A. Dime
Honor Andree
Gertrude Allen
Charlestown Navy Yard
White
Andree Wances
Ehrensvard
S. S. Svensk
Aftonbladet
Stockholm
Alk
Carrier Pigeon
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