Of Interest to Women and Notable Female Achievements
A collection of observations on women's roles and progress across history and modern times. Notable items include a Mayflower memorial in Plymouth, French gratitude to nuns, British protection for night work, and a rise in women’s education and leadership such as Meta J. Erickson as railroad president.
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Plymouth
Mass
Greece
Isabel Lawrence
Minnesota Normal School
St. Cloud
Carrie Chapman Catt
American National Woman Suffrage Association
University of Wyoming
Covent Garden
London
Duchess of Bedford
Turkey
Constantinople
America
Meta J. Erickson
Oakland
Cal
Amador- Central Railroad Company
Mary Miles Minter Studies Blindness for Eyes of the Heart
The actress learns to portray blindness by visiting the California Institute for the Blind and studying Braille, gestures, and movement. Eyes of the Heart, opening at the Saenger theatre, casts Minter as Laura a blind girl in a Clara Kennedy adaptation from Dana Burnet.
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Mary Miles Minter
Realart Studio
Miss Minter
Helen Keller
Dana Burnet
Laura
Dog Detective Foils Gang in Fighting Fate Episode
In the latest Vitagraph chapter play Fighting Fatestarring William Duncan a terrier named Tommy leads a thrilling pursuit. The canine hero shadows Black Circle gang members and acts as messenger to the detective disrupting the crime plot at the Picture Garden tonight.
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William Duncan
Picture Garden
Tommy
Black Circle
Duncan
Motor Car Replaces Locomotive and Coach on Georgia Railroads
W H Wright superintendent of the Savannah Division of Central Railroad of Georgia tests a Dodge Brothers motor car for division inspections. The vehicle, with standard gauge steel wheels, offers faster, cheaper, more flexible trips ahead of passenger trains and is now in use on ten or more railroads around Atlanta.
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W. H. Wright
Savannah
Central Railroad of Georgia
America
Dodge Brothers
Wright
Atlanta
Informal Summer Fashion and a Wedding Gown Featured
The piece discusses casual summer dress options with separate skirts and multiple blouses, noting fabrics like Canton crepe and woolens. It also describes a Paris designer wedding gown in white satin with orange blossom accents and net overdraping, suitable for church or home ceremonies.
Elderly dog poisoner blamed by village in comic quarrel
A village debate follows a claim that somebody poisoned a dog. The assessor vows to identify the culprit while the village patriarch ponders defending an elderly suspect who may be kept awake by a barking dog. The exchange blends humor with social tension.
Mrs. Alice Ames Winter Leads Women’s Club Meeting
Mrs. Alice Ames Winter presides over the General Federation of Women’s Clubs session in Salt Lake City. A Minneapolis resident with deep Boston roots, she is a Wellesley alumnus and author, former Minneapolis Club president, Minnesota Child Labor Commission head, and a Red Cross state director active in wartime relief and patriotic work.
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Alice Ames Winter
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Salt Lake City
Minneapolis
Boston
Charles Gordon Ames
Monroe Graduates at Washington and Lee
Lexington Virginia June 14 Among the ninety five young men who received degrees from Washington and Lee Uni
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Washington and Lee
Lexington
Washington and Lee Uni
National Travelers Protective Association Convention Opens in Louisville
Louisville hosts the annual national convention of the Travelers Protective Association with delegates from nearly all U S states in attendance.
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Louisville
Travelers’ Protective Association
Belfast Rioters Add Four to Death Toll Amid Turmoil
Rioters fired through windows in Belfast last night as police struggled to quell the disturbance. In Washington a Senate committee backed a bill to exempt coastwise shipping from Panama Canal tolls.
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Belfast
Washington
Senete Inter-Oceanic Canals Committee
British stance on Greek Turkish conflict remains neutral
In London Austen Chamberlain announced Britain would stay neutral in the Greek Turkish nationalist clash. A Dublin dispatch reported Thomas Rush an American navy pensioner was shot dead last night.
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London
Great Britain
Austen Chamberlain
House of Commons
Dublin
Thomas Rush
Foster,Former Louisiana Governor and Senator, Dies at 72
Franklin Louisiana records report J. Murphy Foster longtime political figure and former Governor and U.S. Senator died at his Franklin home Sunday morning. He was seventy two, had been in ill health long, and had been active in state politics for forty years. Funeral held here today.
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Franklin
Murphy J. Foster
New Orleans
Louisiana
United States
Senator Foster
First Dahlia Named After Swedish Professor Dahl
The first dahlia known to Europeans was found in Mexico and sent to a Madrid botanic garden professor who named it for the Swedish scholar Dahl.
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Mexico
Botanic Gardens
Madrid
Dahl
Venomous fish hides in coral sands of South Seas
A fish lies buried in South Seas coral sand with hollow dorsal spines that act like rattlesnake fangs. If stepped on, it ejects poison capable of killing or crippling a person, a warning of hidden dangers beneath the reef.
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South Seas
The Future Tailor Uses Camera for Suit Measurements
A new garment fitting process uses a camera based system. A marked tape from neck to feet and three around back waist and hips records measurements. Photos capture front side and back to create a permanent precise record.
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Saenger
Dorothy Gish
Fox
Burton Holmes
Constance Binney
ST. John
Trouble
Paramount Magazine
T. Malouf
L. E. Jackson
Mer
Desiard Street
Mae Marsh
Tom Moore
the Cinderella Man
Frank Mayo
Colorado
Tarzan
Girl OF the Sea
The
Saenger Theatre
Dog Detective
Lenore
Paris
Albert Milling Bernstein
Qoscar Wharton Brown
Monroe, & Roth
Monroe
Rexall
City Drug Store
Fred M. Grant
Rexall Store
City High School
Jesse James, Jr
Benefit
W. O. W. Circle
Joplin, Mo
Ozark
Connor
Joplin
Ozarks
Dreran-Allis-Howrun
Compan
Ives
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
Winston-Salem, N. C
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