U. S. Lighthouse Service Reports Eventful Year
The 1918 annual report details wartime shifts with 1132 personnel serving with the Navy while maintaining navigational aids. It notes the Navassa island lighthouse, new retirement provisions, expanded aids to navigation to 15,673, and 5899 personnel, with 6.15 million dollars appropriated for 1919.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commissioner of Lighthouses
Secretary of Commerce
Lighthouse Service
United States
Navy Department
Navassa Island
West Indies
Panama Canal
Interior
Alaska
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
War and Favy Departments
War Risk Insurance Act
Budget Figures Show Fire Department Surplus and New Works
The report notes an excess of 811 750 dollars over the prior fire year and highlights 729 000 dollars in special appropriations for various new projects.
Germans Sing Star Spangled Banner at Armistice Parade
At a prison hospital near London a German band played the Star Spangled Banner and hundreds of wounded German soldiers joined in, celebrating the armistice with the Americans. The next day American walking patients paraded through the prison grounds as the German guards and band joined in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Horpital
Dartford
Germany
Washington police seek thirty policewomen for bureau
Major Pullman of the District of Columbia police asks the U S Employment Service to recruit thirty policewomen for a new women’s bureau. Mrs Leola N King directs traffic as a pilot project and the bureau will focus on prevention, social work, and investigations in hotels, burlesque shows, dances, movies, and other venues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Major Pullman
District of Columbia
United States Employment Service
Department of Labor
Leola N. King
New York Probation and Protective Nesteration
Bureau
United States Employment Office
Woman's Bureau
Washington
Gas Mask Makers Find Other Work
After the armistice hundreds of women from gas mask factories returned to peacetime jobs. Many reentered corset and lingerie sectors, with skilled operators redeployed via the U S employment service. The transfer occurred rapidly, aided by factory cooperation and government guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Employment Service
Long Island City
War Industries Board
Police plan for rehabilitation of wayward girls outlined
Statement describes coordinating with Washington agencies on juvenile reform. A large detention house will be remodeled to separate juvenile offenders from immoral girls. Thirty policewomen will be recruited to study conditions, supervise amusements, locate runaways, warn, befriend, and perform personal work with women and girls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
King
United States Employment Service
Demobilization Plans For U S War Effort
In Washington the government works on a vast demobilization for 2,000,000 troops in Europe while a smaller 75,000 group is also targeted. The War Department and Labor Department study maps and reports to organize the return of victorious workers to their homes. The text notes battles fought in offices as well as trenches and highlights the role of tutors and machines in ending the conflict.
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GWWA
Europe
Washington
War Department
Secretary of War
Mapa
Labor Department
Secretary of Labor
Women workers released under wartime job plan
Representatives of the United States employment service and the War Labor Policies Board held a conference as the first group of women readied for release. The service listed names and addresses and started clearance to place each candidate in or near the plane they served on.
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Woodbury’s
Woodbury
United States
Canada
Andrew Jergens Company
Cinci
New York
Peri
Ontario
United States Employment Service
War Labor Policies Board
Employment Service
Chicago Welcomes Expanded Industrial Training School
The Washburne building hosts an expanded industrial training program as Chicago backs the school with $20,000, more than prior plans. Students gain broad machinist skills with modern shop equipment while being prepared for follow up roles in industry.
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Chicago
Washbursa
United States Department of Labor
Chicago Board of Education
Statewide child welfare drive progresses nationally
Nearly every state has a functioning child welfare structure under the children's year program of the Children's Bureau. Dr Jessica B Peixotte notes most states have effective state and county aid committees and substantial financial backing for welfare work, with Illinois Connecticut Rhode Island California Utah and Iowa highlighted for support.
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IOW
Children’s Bureau
United States Department of Labor
Jessica B. Peixotte
Council of National Defense
Ilinois
Connecticut
Rhode Island
California
Utah
Iowa
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Wood
U. S. Lighthouse Service
The
United States Lighthouse Service
Philippine Islands
Panama
Alse
American Fruit Store
DAN S. Park & CO
Capitol Avenue
Pexiotto
Elect
Board of Health
Porty-Aix
Niveth, Roberts Jewelry & Optical Co
17Th Street
First National Bank
Cheyenne, Wyoming
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