Victory Lassies Club Formed Amid War Efforts
SOCIETY VICTORY LASSIES organized by Miss Gertrude Pari lead efforts to comfort soldiers in hospitals, crafting scrapbooks and other items. Members include Dorothy Martin, Helen Brown, Mildred Anderson, Wilma Schwindeler, Phyllis Averkamp and Nadine Odell. They met with Miss Martyn King in North Twenty Fourth Street and will meet next week.
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Victory Lassies
Ictory Lassies
New Patriotic Club
Youngirls
Gertrude Pari
Mss
Martyn King
North Twenty-fourth Street
Wilma Schwindeler
Phyllis Averkamp
Nadine Odell
Dorothy Martin
Two Sets Of Children And The Discipline Question
A reader contrasts two parenting approaches. One set of children are obedient yet lively, trained with minimal politeness and frequent negative corrections. The other set are cour teous and well-mannered, but bright, noisy, and more intrusive. The writer questions if stern discipline is necessary or if a courteous approach can maintain boundaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tess
Beatrice Hale To Speak For Starving Nations
Mrs Beatrice Forbes Robertson Hale arrives December 11 to headline a three week tour for the United States Food Administration. An Englishwoman and niece of Sir Johnston Forbes Robertson she lectures on women’s and stage interests while championing wartime relief and conservation efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beatrice Forbes- Robertson Hale
Europe
United States Food Administration
Hale
Sir Johnston Forbes- Robertson
Swinburne Hale
New York
William Gardner Hale
University of Chicago
Ood
Dewey and Lincoln School PTA Meetings This Week
Dewey school hosts a 3 pm PTA meeting with speaker Willem Schlagenhaus in the auditorium. The program features a Lewanda Huggins piano solo, second grade exercises, a seventh and eighth grade boys chorus, and a assembly song. The Dewey Men’s club meets Tuesday to elect officers and plan winter work. Dr Waggoner from Macomb Normal misses Saturday class due to illness. Lincoln PTA will meet next Friday with D Jackson as speaker. Dr Melinda Germann leads a First Aid class Friday evening at Lincoln school.
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Dewey
Willem Schlagenhaus
Dewey School
Parent-Teacher Association
Lewanda Huggins
America
Waggoner
Macomb Normal
Lincoln
Lincoln School
D. Jackson
Melinda K. Germann
Death mystery of Corporal Martin unresolved after Red Cross check
After three days Red Cross investigators found no record of Corporal Martin’s death. A telegram from Camp Merritt officials admitted no death records and asked for his unit and entry date. The case centers on a dying letter allegedly written from a field hospital and handwritten postscript claiming burial.
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Red Cross
Martin
Bumer Martin
Edward Martin
Quincy
John Korn
Red Cross Cavpion Relief Committee
Carnp Merritt
N. J
Camp Merritt
St. Louis
Kern
Elmer Martin
Campospital
France
Jefferson Barracks
Women candidates for British Parliament include Pankhurst
Among nominated candidates for parliament eleven are women led by Christabel Pankhurst daughter of suffrage leader Emmeline Pankhurst. Also named are Mrs Frederick Pettitk Lawrence Miss Mary McArthur and Countess Georgina Markievicz.
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London
Christabel Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst
Frederick Pettick Lawrence
Votes For Women
Mary McArthur
British Women's Trades Union
Georgina Markievich
Dublin
Sinn Fein
Asquith
Women's Social and Political Union
France
United States
Australia
Frederick Pethitk Lawrence
Lawrence
England
National Federation of Women Workers
Women's Trade Union League
Chicago
British Labor Party
Georgiana Markievicz
Dublin Castle
W. C. T. U. Launches $1 Million Fund Drive
The executive committee of the W C T U has begun a campaign to raise one million dollars. Part of the funds will enlarge the executive headquarters in Washington. The group reported thirty thousand new members enrolled over the past year.
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E. 3. Hillman
Quincy
E. F. Halbach
Lawndale
Conservation of Clothes Committee of
Washington School
Wc. T. U
Chicago
W.C. T U
Washington
Red Cross in Pictures Shown Next Tuesday in Quincy
Mrs Idah McClone Gibson hosts a three reel film at Empire theater detailing the American Red Cross from its Solferino birth in 1859 through modern operations. It follows canteen services, family links, chapter work, and relief work in Italy Belgium and France with doctors and nurses under fire.
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Red Cross
Idah McClone Gibson
Waren Curtis
Paris
Quincy
American Red Cross
Empire Theater
Solferino
New York
Rome
Italy
Belgium
France
Zenes
L. U. B. A club hosts social evening at Y W C A
The L U B A club met at the Y W C A for a social night after a business meeting. The new hostess house at Second and Hampshire is nearing completion with interior work and furnishings soon. It will serve girls and women in the neighborhood for the noon hour. The gym will host free games and a military drill for Girl Reserves this evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victory Committee
Chamber of Commerce
E. F. Black
Mary Edwards
Quincy
UL Mlc
WW. CC
Y. M
Harry Githens
Mary Harness
Thompson
Association
Second and
Hampshire Streets
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Letha
Kitty Bunting
Illinois Women's College
Jacksonville
Misa Gladys Herleman
Baptist Women's Society
Salem
Salem Hall
Old Society
Hillman
Sherman
Grace Sherman
Mooseheart Legation
Spruce Street
McLeneln
H. Emerson
Moose_hall
Arcade Hall
O’farrell
Woodland Board
Woodland Home
J. Willis Gardner
Gardner
J. R. Pearce
Vermont Street Methodist Sunday School
Frances Crowell
G. H. Wilson
Ilinois Women's College
Golden Rule Lodge
D. of R
Mattie Schulte
Eleventh
Kentucky Streets
Springfield
Helen State
Helen Stahle
Julia Sibley
Claude B. Biles
Kansas City
Our Lady of Good Court Catholic Church
James Walsh
Stahie
Baker
Stahle
Peoria
Biles
Col
Miss Simmons
Letta Simmons
Vermont Street Methodist Church
H. C. Sprick
J. J. McGraw
Luther Memorial Church
Ladies’ Social Union
George Scherer
Indiana
George W. Gano
Mount Vernon
Ind
UO. D. Prank
South Side
Mothers’ Club
Mission Rooms
American Fund
Proce
Feld
Dick Feld
Elm Street
Blue Bird Club
Teachers’ Club
Thursdy
Kirtley
W. S. Kirtley
Lloyd Kirtley
Camp Point
Will
Nannie Lackland
Wil
Miss Boll
Tillie Boll
Max Boll
Washington Street
William Egan
East St. Louis
Miss Bell
Egan
Camp Devens
Boston
Mass
Evison
William Evison
Vine Street
W. R. Cc
J. B. Shank
J. W. Rees
W. Steinbeck
J. L. Straub
Lambert
Carrie Colman
T. D Woodruff
R. O. Gibbons
Kees
Mester
Alfred Bush
Women's Committee
Court House
Daiiy
Ruth Cameron
Miss Pankhurst
China
Henry G. Garretts & Sons
State Street
The
Y. W. C. A. Notes
Illner
Rogers Silverware
Emmerson
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