Dear Miss Grey Letters on Etiquette and Citizenship
A column of readers ask about etiquette in games when to invite others, generosity during wartime, and family and citizenship concerns. Advice covers including reluctant partners, handling a stingy suitor, supporting war bonds, child welfare, food waste laws, draft classifications, naturalization steps, and enlistment timing.
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Miss Grey
Grey
Ruth
France
Federal Building
Chey
Naturalization Bureau
Federal
Red Cross Subscription Corrected After Inquiry
A mistake credited a maid’s donation to Ieanac Lurie of 1202 Madison Ave. The maid’s $1 contribution was misattributed after a solicitor reported to Lurie’s household. Investigation showed Lurie personally donated a substantial amount at Red Cross headquarters, correcting the record.
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Ieanac Lurie
Madison ,T
Red Cross
Hooe
Lairie
Lurie
Red Croes
King George Calls Imperial Conference
King George summons imperial conference of dominion premiers to shape British war policies and assess quotas of men and money from empire nations. The meeting will weigh each dominion voice at the peace table. Wallace Louis, Oriental, mourns, after a Stradivarius violin was stolen Monday night from his residence at 708 Lenora.
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Washington
George
Wallace Louis
Lenora
Nanking
Fourth and Pike
Have nerves and courage in wartime advice
Wartime pamphlet argues nerves are built by self discipline not fate. It promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as blood and nerve strengtheners and offers mail order purchases from Schenectady New York with pricing.
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Dr. Willa Medicine Co
Schenectady
Confessions of a Wife Excerpt on Love and Selfishness
The narrator reflects on a manuscript from her dying husband Dick as she weighs happiness, sacrifice, and memory. She contrasts male and female ideas of happiness and recalls their early life, love, and the Eden like home they shared. The passage ends with a confession of mutual selfishness and a tease that the story continues.
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Paradise
Margie
Liberty Bond Buyers Making Payments Rush in Seattle
Seattle banks report a rush of Third Liberty Bond purchases under a partial payment plan. The second installment of 20 percent was due, with hundreds of thousands of dollars paid. Plan No. 2 requires 5 percent down, then 20 percent May 28, 35 percent July 18, and 40 percent plus accrued interest August 15.
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Seattle
Liberty Pond
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Greater Coliseum
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Second Ave
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Belred Can Bown
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Portland Union
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Metal Trades Council of Portland
Teddy
Gen. Wood
Chicago
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Gen Wood
Wood
Commons
London
Herbert Asquith
Mission Theatre
Georgetown
Ruth Frances Doherty
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Columbia
Quifiifing G
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Nantippe
Wild Women
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Wurlitzer and the
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Cynthia Grey
Mies Grey
Elne
Mise Grey
Etables
Andrew Bonar Law
King George
Herve
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Lumbermen
Arena
Alki Bathing Beach
Seni
Eden
Liberty Bond
Sanders & Company
Smith Building
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Proctor
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