Seven Women Who Do Unusual Jobs and Get Away With Them
A collage of brief profiles from cities including Kansas City Cheyenne Tuscaloosa and Tampa highlighting women breaking barriers in law, horse riding aviation counseling auto mechanics and social work. Notable figures include Mrs Masie Jones Ragan Miss Lorena Trickey Miss Louise Baker Miss Mia Lewis Mrs Elizabeth Lingenfelter Miss Mabel Cody and Miss Nan Badley. Each profile notes career achievement and regional impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Masie Jones Ragan
Louise KE. Baker
Shipping board junk deal sparks vast taxpayer losses
A wartime shipping board excesses case emerges with $153.5 million in supplies left to sell and misused funds. Officials tied to the Bartle Steel affair face scrutiny as bids, contracts, and discarded steel reveal a pattern of waste and potential corruption affecting the public purse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Bartle
Bartle Steel Company
Portland
Ore
House of Battle
SL. Greenberg
Funk
Chicago
Shipping Board
Greenberg
Altho
John Barton
Bagde
H. Weaver
Ims Board of the Shipping
Bardle
Claims Board
Barde
Net
Admiral Benson
Ed Payne
Weaver
Wea- Miller
Ing
E Barde
Etta Wendell Granted Divorce in Judge Seasion Court
Etta Wendell won a divorce from Harry L. Wendell after a two day suit in Judge Joseph Seasion's court. She cited living apart and alleged her husband’s corrupt life in Seattle and spending on dissolute women. Alimony was set at eighty dollars monthly with custody of their two children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Etta Wendell
Harry L. Wendell
Loman & Hanford Pubiishing Co
Joseph Seasion
Wendell
Seattle
Seattle ship captain returns from North European ports
Capt. Walter 8 Milner, a veteran Seattle shipmaster, reports a dreadful awakening from his trip to North European ports. He says Bolshieland is not the utopia of conversation they envisioned, as disillusioned crowds express their views after departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ried” Deportesa
Rustia
Bolshieland
Seattle
Walter 8. Milner
European
Porta
Gales Heads Seattle Amateur Wireless Men
P B Gales elected president of the Seattle Amateur Wireless Men at a Wednesday meeting. A H L Jones named vice president T J Bidner secretary E H Redman treasurer and E G Emery publicity man. The group planned selling supplies to Barde at private sale to cut overhead. Miller became director of supply and sales.
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Shipping Board
Limours
BR. Miller
Board Supply and Sales
Barde
Herbert Freischaker
San Francisco
Harde
Admiral Benson
Alboit
P. B. Gales
Seattle Amateur Wireless Men
M. Co
Miller
Benson
New Improved Gillette Promises Precision Shaving
A 1910 patent touts shaving precision to 1/1000 inch with the New Improved Gillette. It claims luxury and unmatched convenience, urging readers to visit one of 250,000 Gillette dealers to see and buy the new razor, even if it means discarding a longtime razor.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bi Oie
Cheyenne
Wyo
Lorena Trickey
Tuscalooba
Ala
Mia & FL Lewis
Conservatory of Music
Mra
Elizabeth Lingenfelter
Tampa
Fla
Mabel Cody
Aviatrix
Cody
Buffalo Bill
Baton Rouge
Nan Badley
Louisiana State University
M. J. Ragan
Miss L. Trickey
L. E. Baker
S. R. Lewis
E. Lingenfelter
Miss Mabel Cody
J. F. Richardson
U. 8 Board
Special Investigal Committee
West
Wireless Amateurs
Richardson
Pacific Northwest
Washington Mutual Savings Bank
Second Avenue
Backus
John T. Condon
Finley Aymond
R. Frazier
Ivar Janson
William A. Peters
Rollin Branford
James Shannon
William Tharnum
Vilas
J. W. West
David Whitcom
Eugene DE. Favre
Spokane
Janeck
Yakima
Gillette
Boston
Gillette Company
Gillette Safety Razor Company
Diamond
Enaaling
Ene Gilowe Blades
Diamond Trademark
Shanghai
Milan
Montreal
London
Geneva
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