Joseph A Sloan Democratic Candidate for Congress in Washington
Joseph A Sloan a Democratic candidate for Congress in Washington's Second District is a long time Western progressive leader. He championed municipal ownership of utilities, municipal markets, and port facilities in Seattle, and promoted a state merchant marine. He led the Municipal Ownership league and Referendum league, supported woman suffrage and prohibition, and designed 32 vessels while heading the Anacortes shipyard for the Shipping Board. He was born January 20, 1862 in Cleveland Ohio and served as a Wilson elector in 1916.
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Joseph A. Sloan
Washington
Tom Johnson
Cleveland
Ohio
Seattle
Merchants’ Marine League
Sloan
State of
Municipal Ownership League
Referendum League
Lin Hadley
Bellingham
Anacortes
Wash
United States Shipping Board
Witt Urges Sloan for Congress In Letter From Seattle
Joseph A Sloan of Anacortes Washington receives a letter from Peter Witt endorsing his congressional bid. Witt praises Sloan for past service and urges district friends to support him, describing Sloan as a radical with proven work in public ventures and noting Witt’s status as a municipal ownership advocate.
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Joseph A. Sloan
Anacortes
Wash
Joe
Congress
Washington
Peter Witt
Witt
United States
Hanson
Seattle
Prayer Meeting Idea of Y W C A Secretary in France
A Blue Triangle girl at a base hospital writes that life for a Y W C A secretary abroad is not just prayers in a quiet room. She describes a morning convoy of wounded, nurses racing in surgical wards, and a makeshift tea and cake gathering to lift spirits for both patients and exhausted staff.
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Massachusetts
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W. C A
France
Red Cross Jumble Shop Sells Used Suits and Home Goods
If Jimmie or Johnnie needs a new suit fine black broadcloth once made into men s tuxedos and full dress suits can be bought at the Red Cross Jumble Shop located at Fourth Ave and Virginia St The Red Cross salvage warehouse offers sewing machines couches washing machines small gas heaters a cottage organ and various tin and granite kitchen wares for family use.
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Jimmie
Johnnie
Red Cross
Fourth Ave
Virginia St
Seattle Red Cross Workers in France
Miss Norman Abrams and Miss Florence KEK Fitts arrive in France to serve with the Red Cross. Abrams, formerly a reporter on The Star, will perform hospital hut service. Fitts, formerly in the prosecuting attorney's office, becomes a Red Cross stenographer in Rome, Italy.
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Norman Abrams
Florence Kek
Fitts
Seattle
France
Red Cross
Miss Abrams
The
Star
Rome
Italy
Wireless in Prague Angers Hun Powers
Hun authorities discovered a fully equipped wireless lawn station hidden on a roof in Prague Bohemia. Austrian police have struggled to locate the owners of the apparatus as they protest the covert setup.
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Prague
Neb A
Paris
Hun
Bohemia
Landlords Cut Off Heat to Profit Seeker
The Anti Rent Profiteering League accused Seattle landlords of withholding heat to raise profits. The group urged action by the shipping board to curb housing misery and proposed portable housing production. Lawmakers would be asked to pass rent profiteering curbs, with state candidates invited to share views.
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League
Seattle
Shipping Board
Women in Government Push for Equal Pay Across Departments
London reports women in public service rooms demanding equal pay for equal work with men. Many replacements for front line men receive only sixty percent of male pay, highlighting wage disparity during wartime staffing.
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London
Bringing Iron to the Battlefront
Allied urging for iron to fuel soldiers and home front efforts. The ad promotes Irontic an iron tonic from Dr. Pierce’s Surgical Institute Buffalo NY claiming to boost blood and nerve vigor. It urges purchase via 60 cent vials and offers a 10 cent trial package Plus Pleasant Pellets herbal laxative with May apple aloes jalap used for regularity.
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Pierce
Surgical Institute
Buffalo
N. Y
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