U. S. Lighthouse Service Report Highlights Wartime Measures
The 1918 fiscal year report details wartime transfers of 1132 personnel to the navy, a new June 1918 general act creating a retirement system and better pay, Navassa Island light completion, and 15 673 aids to navigation with 5899 staff. It notes life saving acts on 158 occasions and 6.15 million in 1919 appropriations.
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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
Financial figures show excess and new works funding
The document notes an excess of 811 750 over the previous fiscal year and adds that 729000 in special appropriations is directed to various new works. This indicates a sizable midyear surplus alongside targeted capital projects.
Germans Sing Star Spangled Banner at Armistice Celebration
A German band at a prison hospital near London and hundreds of wounded German soldiers sang the Star Spangled Banner in celebration of the armistice. The event followed the signaling of peace and accompanied a parade of American wounded through the German-prison grounds.
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London
Horpital
Dartford
Germany
Police chief seeks 30 policewomen for Washington bureau
Major Pullman of Washington DC asks the U S Employment Service to recruit thirty policewomen for a new bureau. Mrs Leola N King leads the pilot traffic officer program and will place trained women in busy streets to direct traffic and protect lives. The bureau aims to prevent crime and study conditions in hotels, boarding houses, burlesque venues, dance halls, parks, and more.
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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 shifted to peacetime jobs. Many returned to making women’s wear and corset workers found new roles in lingerie, waists, neckties, and collars as manufacturers and the U S employment service coordinated rapid transfers without serious disruption.
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United States Employment Service
Long Island City
War Industries Board
Police plan to rehabilitate wayward girls with 30 policewomen
Officials describe cooperating with Washington agencies on juvenile rehabilitation. They store records of every girl brought to attention and seek to study crime conditions to prevent future offenses. A remodeled detention house will separate juvenile offenders from immoral girls as part of a broader effort. The thirty policewomen will detect conditions needing correction assist amusement areas locate runaways warn and befriend at risk girls and perform personal work with women and girls.
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Washington
King
United States Employment Service
Government plans demobilization of 2,000,000 in Europe
In Washington the War Department maps a return for 2,000,000 American soldiers serving in Europe while the 75,000 GM A workers are also targeted. The Labor Department studies reports and drafts plans to send victorious workers home, recognizing battles fought in offices as well as trenches.
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GWWA
Europe
Washington
War Department
Secretary of War
Mapa
Labor Department
Secretary of Labor
War service women to be released with job assurances
Representatives of the United States employment service and the war labor policies board held a conference as the first group of women was to be released. The employment service listed names, qualifications and home addresses and began telegraphic clearance to offer positions near the planes they served on. The system will be used where possible to prevent unemployment for women and returning soldiers, leveraging 900 offices nationwide to ease postwar readjustment.
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United States Employment Service
War Labor Policies Board
Employment Service
United States
Chicago Welcomes Training Expansion at Industrial School
The Washburne school building in Chicago hosts a rapidly expanding industrial training program funded by the city and supported by the Chicago board of education. Machinery and modern shop equipment boost courses for machinists in a push toward broader follow up work and skilled labor outcomes.
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Chicago
Washbursa
United States Department of Labor
Chicago Board of Education
Porty-Aix States Inactive Campaign Overview
The passage notes nearly all states have organized to support the children's year program under the U S Department of Labor with Dr Jessica B Peixotte citing cooperation with the Council of National Defense. It highlights state and county committees and lists Illinois Connecticut Rhode Island California Utah and Iowa as having secured financial backing for welfare work.
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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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U. S. Lighthouse Service
The
United States Lighthouse Service
Philippine Islands
Panama
Alse
American Fruit Store
DAN S. Park & CO
Capitol Avenue
Woodbury
Woodbury’s
Canada
Andrew Jergens Company
Cinci
New York
Peri
Ontario
Pexiotto
Elect
Board of Health
Porty-Aix
Niveth, Roberts Jewelry & Optical Co
17Th Street
First National Bank
Cheyenne, Wyoming
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