Resignation of Mrs Fin Sheppard from WC A Board
Mrs Fin Sheppard resigns from the national board of the YWCA in Cleveland citing disagreement with the convention's adoption of social ideals. The action pushed for abolition of child labor and eight hour workday for women, plus old age pensions and relief employment. Finance group urged $3 million for 1921 programs and to grow the endowment to $10 million by 1925.
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Cleveland
Fin Sheppard
Helen
National Board of
The
W.C. A
Finance Commission
Doctor Saves Patient and Bride Amid False Death Claim
Kobayashi, a University of Washington graduate and English teacher in the Japanese colony, was rushed to city hospital with a pulmonary hemorrhage. A minister and several Japanese witnesses arrived as his prospective bride waited by the deathbed. The physician declared he would live, prompting the bride to remark he could wait. the doctor then left, and Kobayashi survived.
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N. Kobayashi
Kobayashi
Washington
Fifth
Mia Se
Benevolent L WLW Group Defends Syndicalism Case
Wenatchee on April 17 reports Attorney Pierce defending John McDonald against a syndicalism charge. The L WLW organization is described as benevolent and protective, formed to educate and improve its members.
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Wenatcher
LWLW
Pierce
John McDonald
Dr Ghent Explains Sympathy Key to Dopes Law
County jail physician Dr J A Ghent argues for humane drug law based on sympathy and full rehabilitation. He urges federal action and cross-border cooperation to curb narcotics traffic, with hospital-based treatment and strict institutional confinement until cure or death, while criticizing moralistic reformers.
Russians Fail to Stage Rush on Drug Reform Plan
The report notes few Russians and aliens requested passport blanks. only three of about twenty blanks completed and sent to Washington. Dr J A Ghent outlines a six step federal state plan to control narcotics, including supervision by public health service and treatment stations, farm or sanitarium care, probation, and possible reoffense penalties. Sherd suggests ID cards with fingerprints for addicts, four copies for various authorities.
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Altho
T. W. Lynch
Washington
United States
Commissioner of Correction
New York
Department of Correction
United States Public Health Service
Department of Health
Ghent Articles Warn Woman Away From Dope
The Star receives letters praising Dr. Ghent for his dope menace articles. A reader thanks him for his insight and says insomnia has inspired interest in avoiding drug use. The letter echoes the public response to Ghent’s writings on the dope question.
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Ghent
Star
J. A. Ghee
Dr. Ghent
Dancing with Chinook and a Wind Teacher
Peggy recalls a Saturday tale from her Grandmother about dancing with the wind on a bright March day. They imagine an Indian teacher, a Chinook grandson, as they fly over the bay and fir trees with flowing silk nets and dancing skirts. A visiting Indian girl comments on their unbound hair and dancing like leaves.
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Grandmother
Peggy
David
Mother Dear
Peexy
Tim Cum
Shreveport Plan Stops Dope Evils
In Shreveport a city clinic for drug addicts provides required grains of dope at cost. The program aims to remove illegal drug trade and reduce crime, with addicts signing agreements to enter a city canatorium for permanent cure when directed. Crime reportedly fell by about ninety percent. The treatment involves gradual reduction of dope allowances.
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Shreveport
Board of Health
Coat
City Canatorium
Gust Andrews Sentenced To Life For Prenatt Shooting
Wire briefs report Gust Andrews has been sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting Sylvester J. Prenatt last December. Other items note $1,000,000 worth of liquor to be disposed of by May 16 in Calgary, a drowning report aboard the liner Minnedoma near St John, rotary drills substituting for standard oil well equipment in Aberdeen, Marie Anne Houde accused of forcing a stepdaughter to ingest lye leading to death in Quebec, Northwest corporation planning five dredges on Dominion creek in Dawson, and George Hall resigning to head Olympia Building & Loan association in Olympia.
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Butte
Gust Andrews
Sylvester J. Prenatt
Calgary
Alta
Quebec
Marie Anne Houde
Dawson
Northwest Corporation
Dominion Creek
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Rio
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Seattle
Hope Hampton
Joe Roberts
Ac Free United Tea & South Fa Lib
Hketween
Coyvee
Od Market
Wester Way
Eaty Market
Pike and Liberty Theatre
OUR Coefee
Bel Cleland
Clemmer
Liborious Hauptman Director
A ' Seattles
REX Beach
Alaska
Silver Horde
Waldorf Hotel
Pike
Chauncey Wright
Connection
California
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Multnomah
McConmick Line
Cherry St
ST. John, N. B
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Minnedoma
Liverpool
Aberdeen
Standard Oil Co
Moclips
Olympia
George Hall
Olympia Building & Loan Association
Moore
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Ye Song Shop
Mary Marble and Company
Myers
Noel Cooper
Ricardo
de Voe
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Frank Wilson
Twick Daily
Palace Hip
DR. E. O. Mann
Gregory Boulevard
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Three Tree Point
Second Ave
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