Campaign to Humanize Jails in New York Grows
Jan 3 A campaign to humanize the neisons of the United States has been undertaken by the Gray Brotherhood from Sing Sing. A former inmate says 18 000 members back reform and oppose radical literature flooding prisons. The movement aims to redeem convicts, curb Bolshevist influence, and push prison reform as a political platform.
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Khonteas
Gray Brother
Lis Fe
Washington
Sing Sing
Joliet Tilino
Brotherhood
Pevsie
Nvds
Schoels
Sn Exer
Welfare League
New York City
Thomas Mott Osborne
Naval
Portsmouth
N. H
United States Navy
Chicago
Osborne
New York
Rosina Sinking Off North Carolina Coast
Coast guard cutter Seminole aided by Lake Leha after wireless message reports the New York schooner Rosina sinking 186 miles off North Carolina. Captain and two survivors rescued. Seminole set to assist.
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Wilmington
Coast Guard
Seminole
Rosina
New York
North Carolina
Lake Leha
Sinn Fein Examined by Irish and Ulster Standpoints
London dispatch outlines Sinn Fein as seen by Irish southern leaders and Ulster loyalists. It cites Sir Edward Carson on Ulster distinctness, outlines Sinn Fein demands and violence, and cites reactions from De Valera and Reverend Montgomery to illustrate how the movement is viewed in the broader Irish question.
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Ireland
Ulster
Edward Carson
Sinn Feiner
Fermoy
Dublin
United States
Irish Republic
de Valera
Heniy Monttomery
D. D
Irish Presbyterian Church
London
Evangelical Alliance
Irish educational bill drawn for central authority in Dublin
Dublin reports the Irish education bill creating a single central authority answerable to the imperial parliament and introducing a local school tax. The plan limits local control to advisory school boards while managers, mainly clergy, appoint teachers. It also preserves religious oversight by clergy in school management.
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Ulster
Ireland
Educational Department
Miss Annie Rankin Named Buncombe Home Demonstration Agent
The joint board of education and county commissioners announced Miss Annie Rankin of Greensboro as Buncombe county home demonstration agent for the year. She holds degrees in home economics and domestic science from the North Carolina College for Women and has prior work in Mecklenburg New Hanover and Warren counties. She was highly recommended by Phimmer Stewart. The Burnese and Maoris have no wedding ceremony as marriage is viewed as a business arrangement.
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Asheville
Jan
Joint Board of Education and County Commissioners Today
State Department of Home Demonstration Work
Annie L. Rankin
Greensboro
Buncombe County
Miss Rankin
North Carolina College For Women At
Mecklenburg County
New Hanover
Warren Counties
Phimmer Stewart
Mecklenburg Board of Education
Building contracts in 1920 rise east of Missouri
The F W Dodge company estimates total building awards in 1920 east of the Missouri and north of the Ohio rivers at 2.806 billion dollars, up from 2.5 billion in 1919, with residential and industrial projects dominating. The report notes a late peak in October and two thirds of yearly work occurring in the second half.
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Ohio Rivers
F. W
Dodge Company
Franklin T. Miller
Central West
Miller
American students to flood Paris universities next year
H S Krans secretary of the American University Union in Europe says American students will flock to French universities as Paris hosts 33 American institutions. He notes Germans avoided, a New York student survives on six francs daily, and 14 French students study in the United States on scholarships. The Society for American Fellowships plans 20 Americans yearly to the Sorbonne and other French schools.
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American University Union
Europe
Krans
Paris
Luxemburg Gardens
America
Union
Harvard
Yale
Columbia
Johns Hopkins
Princeton
United States
Eraus
Associated Press
New York
Unions
Rec
Society For American
Sorbonne
Outbursts of Everett True Scholarships and Fees
The text notes twenty five scholarships for American girls in France filled and mentions Swedish doctors not charging patients, with patients paying what they can. It portrays a scattered, humorous handling of education and medical fees across countries.
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France
Rip Van Winkle Opera Debuts by Chicago Opera Company
Chicago, Jan 3. The Chicago Opera Company presented Reginald de Koven’s Rip Van Winkle in English for the first time here. The work is American and based on native folklore with a libretto by Percy Mackaye.
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Chicago
Chicago Opera Company
Reginald de Koven
Rip van Winkle
Percy
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