National League for Women's Service charts postwar expansion
The National League for Women’s Service outlines broader postwar aims to mobilize trained women across communities. The motor division will continue transporting the sick and convalescents with Jamaica as a case study showing ambulance work and district nursing aiding crippled children and families in need.
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League
Motor Division
Motor Corps
Jamaica
Adventure of Evanston's Juul of a Policewoman
Mrs Georgiana Juul Evanston's policewoman encounters a disorderly stranger on the lake front at Davis Street. Episodes follow her arrest attempt reveal costume issues revolver whistle and reporting mishaps at the station. Commentary notes that even in Chicago hold up outfits may slip by.
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Evanston
Davis Street
Jull
Chicago
Grave of Her Convict Son at Her Rainbow's End
An aged mother, penniless on her fifty seventh birthday, is found in a railroad station heading to Butte seeking her son, a twenty two year old convict. A later note from Nancy Browning reveals she kidnapped the boy, who later left her. Strangers provide aid as the tale shifts from pursuit to a grim revelation.
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Motor Corps
Jamaica
Detroit
Chicago
St. Louis
San Francisco
Europe
Council of Jewish Women
Helen Winkler
T. A. Levy
Syracuse
N. Y
Chamber of Commerce
Frederick Schoff
Philadelphia
National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teachers’ Associations
Bureau of Child Hygiene
Josephine Baker
Bureau of Hygiene
New York City
Ammond
Salvation Army
Butte
Mont
New York Reformatory
Elmira
Athens Township
New York
Sonny
Nancy Browning
South Hills
John Kipp
Amos Shoemaker
Miss Dee Van Balkom A Girl Without a Country
Dee Van Balkom born on a Sumatra tobacco plantation grew up in Paris and London. She served as ambulance nurse in Canada and later as a wireless operator for the US Army Signal Corps. After WWI she learned she was a girl without a country as courts considered marriage to a dying soldier for nationality.
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Dee van Balkom
Sumatra
Paris
London Conservatory of Music
Dee
America
South America
Miss van Balkom
Denver Reflects on Evil Eye Hope Diamond Tale
In Denver chatter swirls around Vinson Walsh McLean’s death at the McLean Washington mansion and the famed Hope diamond. Evelyn Walsh McLean inherited much of her father’s wealth, but the 1911 purchase of the Hope diamond and later will diversions left the fortune far smaller than the circulating $200,000,000 claim.
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Vinson Walsh McLean
Washington Country
McLeans
Hope
Edward Beal McLean
Thomas Walsh
Denver
Walsh
Camp Bird
Sand
London
Leopold
Belgium
Vinson
Evelyn Walsh McLean
McLean
John R. McLean
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