WPA Sewing Project Empowers Women Workers At 331 East Market
In a San Antonio WPA sewing room, 426 workers produced over 25 000 garments in a month, with 400 plus stitching on machines. Mrs Ethel Allison notes summer fabrics will roll in, patterns mark and cut, scraps bound for Not to Be Sold tabs, and garments flow from cutting to final inspection to welfare agencies.
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East Market Place
Ethel Allison
WEA Sewing Room Project
Fordiuroy
Jezeh
San Antonio
Bexar County
Fedural
Women's Department
Seite Hants
Tvo
Ater
WPA
Caamaaiies
Ezhrusty
Say
Elizabeth McCawley
Women Vote League backs child aid bill at convention
The Texas League of Women Voters approved a plan to petition the legislature to include counties in funding child welfare services. They backed public welfare bill 611 and a measure for jury service for women. Officers were re elected including President Mrs Claude Till and Secretary Miss Morence Stullken.
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Texas League of Women
Will
League
House
Texas
Claude Till
Austin
Morence Stullken
Burton McCollum
Howster
George Abbott
Dallas
D. B. Calvin
la Marque
Hilda Ray
Midland
League of Women Voters Pigeons Drive Signatures
Mrs. George Gellhorn recalls a postwar tale of the League of Women Voters arranging a world peace conference petition drive. Minnesota and Missouri leagues gathered signatures, even planning seven carrier pigeons to carry new signatures daily to Washington. Pigeons moulted. telegrams and telegraphs carried the signatures instead, as the campaign pressed on.
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League of Women Voters
George Gellhorn
Leskue
Washington
Minnesota League
Harding
Missouri League
St. Louis
Lie Post
Elich
School need of democracy speech at League convention
Mrs. Homer Price Rainey, wife of Dr Homer Price Rainey UT president, urged at the League convention at the Plaza Hotel that schools train students for democracy through active participation in extracurricular activities. She called for colleges to model democratic governance and for students to engage in school curricula by proposing new subjects.
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Dumouraes
Homer Price Rainey
Maverick to Attend Dallas Flower Show Birthday Event
Mayor Maverick will join DC and other Texas mayors in Dallas for the Ahaw organization program honoring a Gardena of the Americas. The event, held March 29, features a pres view of Dallas International Flower Show and a one hundredth birthday celebration.
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Taury Maverick
Texas
Dallas
Suffragette Ostracism in 1892 Texas Society
Mrs. Tda Schweppe of 325 San Pedro, Texas League of Women Voters, faced ostracism when a suffragette preached in San Antonio. Though timid, she believed in women’s right to vote and joined Carrie Chapman Catt’s 1921 call to unite. Texas women won the vote, then faced its removal, amid harsh social restraint.
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Tda Schweppe
San Pedro
Texas League of Women Voters
San Antonio
Houstonian Heads Cotton Association at Texas convention
Sydney Oden of Mauston was elected president of the Texas Cotton Association at its annual convention in Dallas. Peter O’Donnell of Dallas was named vice president and L. F. Murray of Waco was re-elected secretary. Oden succeeds A Starke Taylor. The convention voted to select its 1942 convention city by mail ballots next. December.
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Dallas
Sydney Oden
Mauston
Texas Cotton Association
Peter O'Doniell
L. FT. Murray
Waco
Oden
A_ Starke Taylor
Texas Traffic Fatalities Rise In Early 1941 Report
A February tally shows 130 traffic deaths and the first two months of 1941 totaling 294 fatalities, a 4 percent increase from the same period in 1940, per the Texas Department of Public Safety.
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Austin
INS
Frebruary
Department of, Public Safety
Union Chief Surrenders Over Union Funds Theft
New York March 23. James J. Dumbrick president of local 32 B of the Building Service Employes International union surrendered to District Attorney Dewey after indictment reurned. He faced six counts including second degree larceny forgery and conspiracy relating to $10,000 allegedly diverted from the union’s cash voucher book to cover strike expenses.
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New York
INS
James J. Dumbrick
Houston's Lovers Wait Blackout
Houston prepares for a test blackout within six weeks as Mayor Neal Pickett says lights will be out by moonlight. IB W Payne, new defense director, studies Seattle and El Faso plans for guidance while considering novel anti-aircraft ideas.
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Houston
Neal Pickett
IB. W. Payne
Seattle
el Faso
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Traciiz
Aly
Kadee
Rclipse
Potchernick
Women's Vote League
Maverick
Women Voters League
L-H
H. P. Rainey
Claude Hill
Palite Society
Houstonian Heads Cotton Association
Agwriter
the Graphic Arts
Graphic Arts
Graphic Arts Industry
San Antonio Graphic Arts Federation
Milam Budg
SAN Antonio Fannin
Oldsmobile
Olduca
General Oldsmobile Company
Cavendier
San Antonio, Texas
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