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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1919
Page
3
A flash advertisement touts a one week sale offering aluminum cookers for one dollar to women who did not previously obtain one. It claims limited quantity per family and ties flavor and digestion of Quaker Oats and Mother's Oats to using the cooker, urging prompt response with a sales slip to save on future cereal purchases.
A local New Plymouth campaign offers an Aluminum Cooker by parcel post for $1 when shoppers send grocer sales slips showing five packages of Quaker or Mother's Oats or four oats plus one Quaker Corn Meal or Hominy. Slips must be mailed within one week to New Plymouth Mercantile Co and local merchants in New Plymouth Idaho.
Hazel MacKaye, head of the National YWCA drama department, calls for using closed saloons as community playhouses and centers for drama and sings. She cites wartime unity and Americanization via pageantry to unite diverse neighborhoods and translate foreign customs into English for broader understanding.
Queen Marie of Romania invites the American YWCA to open work in Romania under her patronage after a Paris conference at the Rits Hotel. Attending were Harriet Taylor, Mary Anderson, Mary Dingman, Margaret Fowler, and Charlotte Niven, with Madame Cabril as a notable guest.
A new department of finance has been organized by the Y W C A for its work in France. Miss Constance Clark of Pasadena is the executive, with Miss Edith Austin of New York handling contracts and leases. Miss Mary Buchanan will oversee remodeling and decorating, while a cafeteria expert joins as general adviser. The department will act as a clearing house for all French association needs and equipment shopping.
Miss Marion Porter of New York City received the Church War Cross from the Chaplain General of the American army for her moral and spiritual contribution to the war. She has served over a year at a hospital center in Vitrel France as a representative of the Y W C A in charge of a nurses' club there.
Lucy plans a neighborhood party for young children but learns her choice of escort may upset others. She reveals her fear that Bobby might prefer a different girl, prompting a motherly warning about kindness and fairness.
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