Americanization and the foreign born in New York's east side
Dr. Kathan Peyser of the Educational Alliance argues that Americanization is an emotion and loyalty, not just language. He warns against scornful labels and language suppression and urges tolerance, bilingual access, and mutual learning to strengthen U.S. unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
East Side
Kathan Peyser
The
Educational Alliance
Seventy-seventh
America
Peyser
Peyserigian
Washington
Alliance
Guineva
Sheeny
Hunkie
Tor
United States
Kaiser
Junkers
Middle
Europe
Prices Soar in Serbian Food Mission Areas Amid Typhus
June 21 report from the Army Food Mission and the American Red Cross details steep prices in Nish and Pirot districts including a man’s suit at 240 dollars and shoes at 55 to 70 dollars. Typhus spreads with hundreds ill in multiple towns as Red Cross teams combat the outbreak.
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Nish
Army Food Mission
American Red Cross
Pirot
Red Cross
Janjevo
Gostovar
Palanka
Cuprija
Leskovatz
Skoplje
Seres
Drama
Kavala
Serbia
Saloniki
Balkans
American
Plot to Free Women Prisoners Exposed at County Jail
In Chicago on June 21 a trusted informer exposed a plan by thirty women prisoners to seize the jail. The scheme involved ambushing the matron and guards with bolts from bathtubs and using employee keys to escape during Visitors' Day.
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Chicago
Agencies Aid Hawaiian Soldiers to Citizenship
Washington reports that seven keys to citizenship are needed as Hawaii builds a unique program to naturalize soldiers. The effort unites the Judge of the U S District Court, the Department of Labor Naturalization Bureau, Hawaii’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, military authorities, the National War Work Council, and the Y M C A army unit to educate alien soldiers in language and American institutions.
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Washington
Hawaii
United States Department of Labor
United States District Court
Naturalization Bureau
Department of Labor
Superintendent of Public Instruction of
National War Work Council
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Bureau of Naturalization
Honolulu
Two Cincinnati Men Last of Cornell ’69
Ithaca New York June 21 Cornell Universitys semicentennial ends with Ezra Cornell statue unveiling. President Schurman says the university has educated 52860 persons since its founding. Only four of the 1869 first graduating class remain living and two Cincinnatians Morris L Buchwalter and Charles F Hendryx attended the ceremony. Alumni officers elected include Edwin N Sanderson Gleeson Murphy Mrs George D Crofts R W Sailor and William Wy Macon all from various cities.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Cornell University
Ezra Cornell
Schurman
Cornell
Morris L. Buchwalter
Charles F. Hendryx
Cincinnati
H. W. Slack
St. Paul
Edwin N. Sanderson
New York City
Gleeson Murphy
Detroit
George D. Crofts
Buffalo
R. W. Sailor
William Wy
Macon
New York
Educating Women Voters At Chester Park Outing
The North Cincinnati Republican Club plans a Chester Park outing on Saturday August 30 to educate women voters. A special committee will teach women how to be informed about Republican principles and how to use the ballot if they gain the vote.
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Ohio
Anyiek
North
Hot Corn Club Outing Planned at Chester Park
The Hot Corn Club of the Twenty-fifth Ward schedules an outing at Chester Park on Saturday July 19. Councilman Jesse MacDonald chairs the committee, with Service Director Hornberger State Representative Harry Federman and other ward celebrities slated to speak.
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Hot Corn Club
Chester Park
Jesse MacDonald
Hornberger
Harry Federman
Romance Told In Song Behind New York Divorce Case
In New York a divorce trial before Justice Giegerich unfolds as Grant Clarke’s songs chart the marriage from courtship to separation. Mrs Helen Patten Clarke seeks freedom amid tales of rivalries and rumors sparked by the songwriter's tunes.
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New York
Helen Patten Clarke
Grant Clarke
Giegerich
Suprermry Court
Mr. Clarke
Kokomo
Ill
Clarke
Inez
West Fortieth Street
Outlying Cities Send Children to Outing Swim Prize Winners
The three day Chester Park outing concluded with large crowds and strong programs. Students from Covington Newport and Hamilton joined 500 children in contests, ice cream prizes, and a Victory Sing. Winners covered life saving endurance and diving events among Sands Guilford Rothenberg Avondale and Hirom participants.
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Chester Park
Covington and Newport
Hamilton
Public School Employees’ Association
Des Wodas
Charles W. Handman
Albert Roos
S ‘ Committee
Carl Ziegler
Sands
F. Becker
K. Lohr
Rothenberg
G. Hairston
I. ‘Martin
Guilford
E. Lundrngen
M. Sweeney
E. Becker
R. Musselman
K. Lahr
Helen Wegham
B. Corbin
Rothense
C. Schiller
B. Westendorp
Donald Nelson
Tom Winkler
H. Wagner
Hirom
Chris Schiller
E. Lucas
George Lohr
Sam Willtheide
H. Mazzie
S. Willheide Rothenberg
A. Brown
Avondale
RB. Westendorf
F. Beckham
Bloom
G. Stautmeyer
Aliens at Ft Douglas to be deported from U S
Washington orders 260 enemy aliens from the Ft Douglas war prison to accompany to an Atlantic seaport for deportation. Most men asked for repatriation. Debarkation port is Charleston South Carolina and a Swiss chartered steamer will return them to Germany.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Washington
Ft. Douglas
Atlantic
Department of Justice
Debarkation
Charleston
Germany
Greenwich Village Postman Marks Fifty Years of Service
Silas B. Davis completed his fiftieth anniversary as a letter carrier for Station C in Greenwich Village. A banquet at Allaire's honored him with a gold watch, recalling village days long before the Bohemian era. Notables at the event included Fiorello H. La Guardia and various postal officials from New York.
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New York
Greenwich Village
Silas B. Davis
Station C
Davis
Charlie Ottington
Mike Donovan
Lafayette Hotel
Colonel Ryer
Revers House
Mr. Davis
Revere House
Broadway
Houston Street
Forty-fifth Zouaves
Fiorello H. la Guardia
House of Representatives
Peter A. McGurty
Hr. J
John J. Taylor
Mike’” God
Mill-End Clean-Up Nets Big Savings on Odds and Ends
A two day sale clears small lots left from the mill end sale including fabrics, garments, shoes, lawn mowers, kitchenware, and furniture samples. Huge discounts on silks, muslins, petticoats, dresses, and accessories with many items limited and selling quickly Monday and Tuesday.
Charity and social service differ says Rabbi
Rabbi Louis Grossmann at Plum Street Temple warns charity insults recipients and creates debt while social service levels the playing field and serves the larger community. He frames poverty as a societal disease, not a personal misfortune.
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Louis Grossmann
Plum Street Temple
Convent Needlework Prizes For City Card Party
Sisters of the Convent of the Good Shepherd Price Hill have crafted embroidery and art needle work to be given as prizes for a city wide card party at Chester Park next Wednesday. About 20 000 tickets sold and 4 000 places reserved, likely the largest card party in Cincinnati.
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Sisters of the Convent of the Good Shepherd
Price Hill
Chester Park
Cincinnati
Friends of the Institution
Head Caught in Bars Baby Chokes to Death
William Rickens and wife return from work to find their four year old son Laurel dead in bed. The child awoke, climbed from the crib, and became caught headfirst between the bars of the crib sides, choking to death. Coroner Bauer notified.
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Wiliam Rickens
Five-Mile Road
Peach Grove
Laurel
Bauer
Smuggling Ring Busted Near Nogales Arrest Ends Plot
Three men linked to an arms smuggling scheme into Mexico were identified at Nogales. Joseph Littman, an ex-soldier, was arrested while driving an auto reportedly laden with 10 000 rounds of 30 30 cartridges 4000 rounds of 25 20 cartridges and 2000 rounds of 45 caliber pistol ammunition. Littman escaped into Mexico after the arrest.
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Nogales
Ariz
Mexico
Joseph Littman
Littman
Lake yards complete 526 vessels in two years
Detroit June 21 shipyards on the Great Lakes will finish 526 vessels by November 1919 since government work began in September 1917. Of these 447 are cargo carriers and 79 are tugs including 38 sea going types 150 feet long.
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Detroit
Midh
Great Lakes
Lake
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Underwood & Underwood
Fawaiian
Morris L. Buchwalter and
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U. S
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Batiste
Millead
Palm Beach
Thomson
Dr. Grossmann
Sisters of Good Shepherd
Villa Smuigciler
Lake Yards
Lake District
United States Shipping Board
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