Washington Letter Women in Government Work
Washington Letter from May 25 reports about four thousand women employed by the U S government in diverse roles beyond clerical work, with the Treasury and other departments highlighting their skills, accuracy, and new opportunities. notes the strong showing of women in patent examination, the printing office, and various bureaus, and comments on politics and public service in Washington. The piece also mentions notable figures and events in Congress, pensions, and Indiana patent notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Treasury
Treasury Department
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
Solicitor of Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue
Interior Department
Post Office Department
Quartermaster’s Office
War Department
Navy Department
Hydrographic Office
Agricultural Department
Government Printing Office
Ohio
Senate
Ohio Senate
Congress
Indiana and national notes from May reports
A Supreme Court decision reverts about 60 000 acres of reclaimed swamp land in Jasper and Newton counties to the state. Health officials push sanitation, crop prospects show good wheat and advance vegetation. Political conventions form lines with Prohibition and Labor tickets. New Albany adds libraries. Illinois and California items note industry and shell trade. Local tales include a giant hog, a China fraud case, and various farm, rail, and weather updates across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inpranavotis
Inn
Supreme Court
Jasper
Newton
Beaver Lake
A Tall Snake Story From Cincinnati May 23
A man from Clark's Summit Virginia, Thomas Highton, set out to his coon dog and was overwhelmed by heaviness in his limbs. Snakes attached to gum boots, killed ninety three, one snake with twenty one rattles. Also reports the deepest boring near Schladebnoh, Prussia, at 4560 feet for coal, temperature 118 and two inch bottom bore. A timber 150 feet long and 16 inches at butt shipped from Oagupta for a fag star at Port Discovery. Not a Chinaman now lives in Lewis county Wyoming. 400 there, 55 more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crossville
Olney
Will Baird
Wm. Daech, Jr
Edwardsville
Henry Langweizh
Lima Lake
Quincy
Cincinnati
Thos. Highton
Clark's Summit
Highton
Wasuinaron
D. C
Schladebnoh
Leipsic
Corbetha
Oagupta
W. T
Sound
Port Discovery
Lewis County
Wyoming
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FORD
New Orleans
Ford & Bennett
Brown’s Clothing House
New Harmony, Indiana
Harmo Planing
Ietors
Teleanes
Duclos CO
New Harmony
Ind
Acloth
Thrale
Wrammoth
Mumpford’s
F. W. Cook Brewing Company
Evansville
Indiana
John W. Miller
Peter Weber
Iso
Evry
Denser Baras Sarare
Washington
Dawes
Gen
McCook
Chace
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Aldrich
New Harmony Register
C. A
Dublin
E. C. Atkins
Indianapolis
W. Moore
Mooney
Lock
C. Risser
J. A. Lease
L. C. Hunter
Fort Wayne
Goff
West Virginia
Republican Campaign Committee
Inez
Kenna
Democratic Committee
Grace Hubbard
The
Low State University
United States Government Survey
Montane
Indiana State News
Hoosier
Gieanca
State Board of Health
Clark County
Democratic
Republican
Knight of Labor
Prohibition
Vincennes
Ida White
Princeton
John H. O’neal
New Albany
de Pauw Female College
Michigan City
Logan
Blaine
Illinois
California Shell Trade
San Francisco
Can
California
Europe
United States
France
Great Britain
Belgium
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Portugal
England
Scotland
Spain
Holland
Clarksville, Tonn
Greenfield
Gutherie
Washington, D.C
Spokane Falla
Washington T
New Orzeans
Hahn
N.D. Wallace
Dem
John L. Martin
Washington, Ga
Illinoia
el Paso
Kappa
Edward Garvin
Carthage
Macon
Cerro Gordo
John B. Frink
Oldtown
Litchfield
Marshall
Democrats
16Th
Mt. Carmel
Landes
Parkersburg
Centralia
Galena
Grayville
Delia Miller
Chicago
Carmi
D.C
House
Sacramento
Cal
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