Pan American Women to Convene April 1929 in Baltimore
The Pan Am Conference of Women will meet in Baltimore in April 1929 with the National League of Women Voters and seven Central or South American nations sending delegates. Round tables on child welfare education women in industry and civil status of women will be led by eminent experts. Events include a mass meeting April 23 a banquet April 24 and an Annapolis Washington visit with a final program closing April 29.
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Pan Am . Conference of Women
Baltimore
National League of Women Voters
Pan American Scientific Congress
Washington
Hemisphere
United States State Department
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Canada
League of Women Voters
Carrie Chapman Dutt
International Woman Suffrage Alliance
Americas
United States
Bryn Mawr College
League
M. Carey Thomas
Goucher College
Annapolis
Maryland
United States Naval Academy
Capitol
Pan American Union
Maud Wood Park
Park
Julia Wade Abbott
United States Bureau of Education
Miss Abbott
Western Hemisphere
United States of America
South America
Central America
Mary Anderson
Bureau of Women In Industry
United States Department of Labor
South American
Valeria H. Parker
Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board
Parker
Grace Abbott
Buenos Aires
Montevideo
North
New World
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
The
Gratitude Gift After Bond Profits Prompted By Client
An affluent female client thanks a bond house senior partner for earning her 90 000 in profits this year and insists on giving a present. The broker declines, then a lurid necktie and the card from the lady arrive next day, illustrating a comic moment of market success and manners. Meanwhile a London born New Yorker quips about tomatoes and American pronunciations, blending humor with travel observations.
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Street “Journal
Chesterton on American Jokes and Democracy
British essayist Gilbert K. Chesterton comments on America importing jokes and jokes’ difficulty to translate. He praises Americans for democracy, work ethic, and practical ideas while cautioning about transplanting humor across the Atlantic.
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Gilbert’k. Chesterton
England
Atlantic
Tower of Babel
London
Mr. Chesterton
Woolwine Faces New Theories in Taylor Murder Case
Los Angeles district attorney Thomas Lee Woolwine, previously tied to the Obenchain case, shifts focus to the Hollywood mystery. He dismisses early theories as bunk while pursuing myriad new possibilities, insisting the case lacks solid evidence against any suspect.
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Thomas Lee Woolwine
Woolwine
Los Angeles
Obenchain
Hollywood
Taylor
Bunk
All Aboard for New York by Airship
Former War official Benedict Crowell predicts a Chicago to New York airship route within a year. A new corporation plans two helium filled rigid airships to carry 100 passengers and 80 tons of mail on the New York Chicago line, with ships built in Germany and US construction to follow. The envisioned network would expand across the United States and to South America and Europe as facilities and materials are ready, aiming ten hour New York to Chicago and forty hour New York to San Francisco flights.
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Chicago
New York
Benedict Crowell
Aero Club of America
United States
South America
Europe
Meee
Pan-American Conference Draws Latin American Reactions
John Barrett, former Pan-American union director general and former US minister to Argentina, Panama and Colombia, says Latin Americans viewed the invitation snub to major republics as an act of courtesy missing in the Washington arms conference. He notes respect for President Harding and Secretary Hughes kept protests at bay and hopes the fifth Pan-American conference in Santiago will aid Pan-America and the world.
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John Barrett
Pan-American Union
United States
Argentina
Panama
Colombia
Washington
Harding
Hughes
Mexico
Cuba
Chile
Latin America
Mr. Barrett
Pan-America
Santiago
Rawson Picked to Succeed Kenyon in Senate
U. S. Senator Charles A. Rawson of Iowa has been appointed by Governor Kendall to fill the vacancy caused by William S. Kenyon’s resignation to become a federal judge. Rawson, born in Des Moines in 1867, will not run in the upcoming November election. He has long been a Grinnell College alumnus and a clay products manufacturer with extensive business interests and corporate posts. He chaired the Republican state central committee 1912–1920 and led Kenyon’s 1911 campaign.
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Charles A. Rawson
N. E. Kendall
Iowa
United States
William S. Kenyon
Senate
Senator Rawson
Des Moines
Grinnell College
Kenyon
Republican State Central Committee
Roadside Settlement House’association
Iowa College
Carrie Hubbard
Cabby's Comment on a Midnight Horse Incident
Ethel recounts returning from a party with her mother. A cab ride ends thrillingly when a horse stops and backs onto the pavement, requiring the cabman to dismount and steer it back. The mother suggests a local term as the girl reflects on the event.
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Ethel
Mother
Mason Street
Bayer Aspirin Ad Promotes Genuine Tablets
An advertisement urges readers to ask for Bayer Tablets of Aspirin with the Bayer Cross stamped on each tablet and package for authenticity and protection against imitation. The ad claims the product has been prescribed by physicians for over twenty one years.
Her Way
Mabel asks why she kisses boys goodnight and Madge replies that they go earlier, reflecting a light dialogue about farewells and social expectations.
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Mabel
Madge
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