Japanese Women Enter Various Jobs Says Miss Weed
Miss Helen Weed, returning from Sendai where she taught music, notes Japanese women entering many lines of work. She cites taxi drivers and bus conductors in cities, changing dress, closer husband wife ties, and rising college enrollments especially in music. Sendai's school system emphasizes six grade primary and competitive entry. many graduates aim for marriage, some seek teaching, with shifts due to economic and social changes. Sendai lies in an agricultural area with silk worm industry and mulberry leaf production.
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Womnn
Helen Weed
Sendai
Tokio
Imperial Unit
Fir Mary School
Haxie
Miss Weed
Will Be Married Monday: Silk, Kimono, and Travel Notes
A fragmentary travel and home craft summary recounts Japanese silk production, weaving, and dyeing at home, with details on kimono care and family involvement. Miss Weed, touring from Sendai to Paris and London, notes import tax effects and living costs in Japan, planning to stay with her mother in Lawrence after visits to Shanghai, Singapore, Naples, and other cities. A related classified ad mentions a vacant room.
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Janan
Japan
Miss Weed
Weed
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Singapore
Iro
Naples
Îoland
Germa
Paris
London
Scotland
Far East
Straits Isments
Baynt
France
Ae BN
F. C. Weed
Lawrence
Prohibition Aims at Youth in W C T U Message
Mrs O Jacqmain edits a W C T U piece praising the Kansas delegation at Manhattan urging youth education on alcohol risks. Edison’s view cited, saying prohibition may fail without women leading the charge. emphasis on hygiene, drugs, and global liquor trade awareness amid modern machinery and air navigation.
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Mr. Edison
Manhattan
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Prohibition
KU Student Shows Animal Life Photographs
Miss Lorene Squire of Harper presents about thirty photos in the University of Kansas gallery. The pictures trace a Florida voyage from the Everglades to New Orleans and Natchez, featuring animals and birds captured on the trip. Her work has appeared in national periodicals, reflecting a long interest in photography and natural history.
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Lorene Squire
Harper
University of Kansas
University Department of Painting
Squire
Fiverglades
Florida
New Orleans
Mississippi
Natchez
Ested
Ream ¢ Stration
Christian women push to end liquor trade worldwide
A passage describes a long campaign led by Christian women to eliminate open and secret liquor merchandising in the United States and globally. It frames the effort as a faith fueled mission to create a freer, happier, nobler world through inherited obligation to aid development and progress.
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United States
Lawrence Woman Is Great Granddaughter of Francis Scott Key
Mrs. H. B. Chubb, a Lawrence resident, is the great granddaughter of Francis Scott Key, author of The Star Spangled Banner. Born Julia Frances Brice, she attended Armistice Day events with her Brice lineage, tracing back to Alice Brice Pendieton. The piece notes Key’s 1812 war moment and the flag house dedication in Baltimore.
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Lawrence
Francis Scott Key
H. B. Chubb
Chubb
Julia Frances Brice
Washington, D. C
A.T. Brice
Jane Frances Pendieton
Alice
Brice
Baltimore
McHenry
Key
Balliimore
Journal
Early dawn muse inspires enduring song lines
In the early dawn, Jshore penned the well known song lyrics. The lines were quickly sung nationwide, paired with the tune of the old drinking song Unscreen in Heaven, which closely matched the verses and may reflect the author’s original intention.
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Jshore
Margaret Drennen to Audition on KOA Tonight in Colorado
Margaret Drennen of Lawrence will perform on KOA radio this evening between 10 30 and 11 30 o clock as a contestant in the Atwater Kent vocal contest. She placed third in the initial audition and was chosen as one of six state representatives at the semi final. The two final winners head to Dallas next month. Drennen has studied with Alberti in New York and with Mrs Hinman at LaMont school of music. She is a University School of Fine Arts graduate and former Dawson music supervisor.
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Tinals
Atwater Kent
Colorado
KOA
Margaret Drennen
Drennon
Dallas
Miss Drennon
Denver
Alberti
New York
Hinman
LaMont School of Music
Drennan
E. Drennan
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Toremely
Dorothy Gregg
Retreit
Voo
Chevrolet
Treriy
Rengingham
Epco
Flint
Michigan
Davis-Child Motor Co
Tel
Rothberger
Andora, Kan
Mrs. O. Jacqmain
Thomas A. Edison
K. U
Harrison Senior
Complete Auto Electric CO
N. H. St
Luckies
the Lucky Scrike Dance Orchestra
N. B.C
E1eu
McCa Co., Mire
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