Women and the War in a Prairie Town War Work Council story
A widow in a Illinois prairie town launders many baskets weekly and follows a son's Camp Funston letter to brave a long journey and stay with him as he trains. Her tale highlights War Work Council efforts aiding women and families during the war, with secretaries aiding soldiers' households nationwide.
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Dilnois Prairie
Camp Funston
Kansas
France
Junction City
Fort Riley
Juncion City
Wombm'a Christian Association
War Work Council
Hostess Houses Aid Soldiers Nationwide War Work Council
YWCA Hostess Houses at military camps provide shelter for visiting relatives and soldiers' families. Volunteers describe caring for a Lithuanian mother, a bootlegger's girlwife, and a runaway convent girl, noting houses are built at commandants’ requests. Fifty four houses are active with more rising as lumber and carpenters allow. Camp Gordon and Petersburg examples cited. work spans towns to factories, aiding girls and communities in wartime.
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Y. W. C. A. War Work Council
Waee
War Work Council
Fle
Camp Gordon
Atlanta
Georgia
Miss Pay Kellogg
Young Women's Christian Association
Petersburg
Virginia
Camp Lee
Hosvess
Hay and Grain Insurance and Local Notices at Yale Oregon
Insurance ad warns hay and grain in stack risk. Notices include Final Proof for Mrs Howland in Ontario and public will hearing for Ulysses S Davis estate in Payette Idaho. Local ads offer piano sale, apple cash and packing materials from Payette Idaho.
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Idaho
Oregon
Payette Valley Real Estate Agency
Department OF the Interior
U. S. Land Office
Yale
Sharlotte Howland
Ontario
Township
Range
Hast
Willamette Meridian
Register
Yale Oregon
Altemont Sutton
Payette
Blaine May
Hazell Witbeck
George Harper
Thos. Jones
Payette County
State of Idaho
Ulysses
Davis
Bed Rock
Idaho Producta Co
Ite
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Cole
Wients
Fwd
Angie
Hood Administration
Food Administration
Utah
J. A. Lauer & Brother
Glenn C. Landon
Poabalmer
Pacific
Alantic
United States
Young Women’s Christian Association
Young Women's Christian Associaons
New York
Narions
Lillag Hall
Chillicothe
Camp Sherman
Cleveland
Hull
Fremerton
Washington
National Board
Mra. Davison
Buckeye Mowers
Deering
Denver
J. M. Swanson & Son Livestock Auctioneer
B. Holmes
Stanton Bros
F. H. Lyon
Attrorney—at Law
Lyon
Spafo
J H Norris
Nat'l Bank
J. W. Easter
Thurston
W. B. Sims
Chiropractor
Crighton Block Payette
B. J. Hetherington & Co
North Eigth Street
Boise Idaho
Walter Watts
DR. H. B. Catron Osteopath
Star Barber Shop
Koken Barber Supply Co
J. 1. Smith
Dorothy
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