Tipton Saint Awakens Cedar Rapids Social Welfare Leader
The 1900 census notes Jane Boyd in the Boyd household as a teacher at Tyler in Cedar Rapids. Born in Tipton in 1867, she earned the nickname saint for her pioneer social welfare work, starting a milk program and aiding children with learning and health needs despite local resistance.
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William R. Boyd
Cedar Rapids
Hattie
Jennie L. Boyd
Mr. Boyd
Jane Boyd
Lydia Jane
Jane
Tipton
Jasper W
Elizabeth Osmond Boyd
Iowa
Boyd
Tyler
Minneapolis
Republican
Boyds
Insights Religion Was for Man to Preach and Women to Practice
Quote attribution to Charlotte Perkins Gilman stating that religion served men as preachers while women were expected to practice it.
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Charlotte Perkins
Gilman
Jane Boyd and Her Times Remembered in Cedar Rapids
A Cedar Rapids biographical sketch chronicles Jane Boyd a social reformer who helped establish the Community Chest in 1914 and the Community House in 1921. It notes her tireless work for crippled children, her death from complications of blood poisoning in 1932, and plans for a commemorative publication.
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Jane Boyd
Community Chest
Home For Aged Women
Sunshine Mission
YMCA
YWCA
Cedar Rapids
Harry Morehouse Gage
Viola Gibson
Dawn and sunrise meanings teased by writer expert
The Gazette outdoor editor Jim Mayer says dawn is daylight first appears while sunrise is the sun above the eastern horizon. The piece also notes the debate over daybreak and correct hyphenation with nonasthmatics and sulfites, and suggests oxidase as the proper enzyme ending.
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Jim Mayer
Gazette
Mayer
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C.R
14Th Ave
Harold F. Ewoldt
Marion Area
Tyler School
State Board of Education
State University Medical School
Iowa City
14Th Avenue
10Th Street
Wentzle Rum
Fifth Ave
13Th Avenue
American Heritage Dictionary
Associated Press
James Perry
Williamsburg
Bob Hope
Slender World
Marion
Indian Creek
Initries
Smulekoff
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