Anniversary of the 19th Amendment urged with voting pledge
In late August, women across the nation will wear white and purple to honor suffragists who fought from 1868 to 1920. In Los Angeles 50 women’s groups gather at City Hall for speeches and a pageant, with Grace Burns Elliott's granddaughter among attendees. LWV of Los Angeles sponsors urge continued voter participation as Ruby Williams, 100, calls on women to wake up and vote.
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Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
U.S
Los Angeles
Jean Berger
Pacific Palisades
Grace Burns Elliott
Spokane
Berger
City Hall
League of Women Voters of
Ruby McKnight Williams
Pasadena
Lucille deView Reflects on Women’s Political Role and Activism
Lucille S. deView recounts lifelong political work from Pasadena where she led the NAACP chapter for 16 years and recalls 1930s segregation in California. She advocates voting and integration as essentials for social progress, noting women’s suffrage and urging active civic participation. Her Sun Journal column appears weekly.
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Pasadena
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Lucille S. deView
Orange County Register
Sun Journal
September meetings on community outreach and genealogy
Bulletin board items note Women's Aglow Fellowship of New Bern hosts a 9 a.m. September 9 outreach at the Hampton Inn. Lower Cape Fear Hospice offers volunteer training September 11 and 18 at First United Methodist Church in Havelock. Family Finders Genealogical Society meets September 12 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints with David Barteau discussing German records and family history videotaping. Call numbers provided for details or registration.
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Women’s Aglow Fellowship of
New Bern
Hampton Inn
Lower
Cape Fear
First United Methodist Church
Havelock
Joanne Ciampi
Family Finders Genealogical Society
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Day Saints
David Barteau
Condensed milk shortcut and trophy keepsakes
Lydia Malone seeks a cost saving substitute for canned sweetened condensed milk and shares a blender method using powdered milk sugar water and butter. Al and Jan Hart advise reusing trophy report plaque space by mounting driven highlights for up to 12 trophies on a 5 by 7 board.
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Heloise
Lydia Malone
Westfield
Maine
al and
Jan Hart Peoria
Ariz
Heloise column seeks reader tips from Lillian Johnson
Heloise requests hints for older readers and time saving tricks by letters from Lillian Johnson of Rensselaer New York. Readers are invited to mail tips to Heloise P O Box 795000 San Antonio Texas or fax 210 HELOISE.
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Heloise
P.O
San Antonio
Texas
Choosing a long term care policy in Denver
A Denver AP overview explains who needs long term care insurance and which features matter. It covers cost estimates, age to start planning, key benefits like COLA, home health care, and liberal triggers, plus premium-saving strategies and potential policy changes.
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Denver
Kathryn Ioannides
Toannides
Ioannides
Loamides
Loannides
Mystery wheel baffles engineers in Tennessee museum display
In Norris Tennessee Asa Jackson built a century old wooden wheel with gears sliding weights and springs he claimed could run forever. Engineers from Oak Ridge cannot yet explain how it works. the device is now showcased at the Museum of Appalachia.
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Norris, Tenn
Asa Jackson
Oak Ridge
Wayne Schrader
Jackson
Museum of
John Rice Irwin
MacArthur Foundation
Schrader
Irwin
Nashville
Doug Jackson
Lebanon
Museum of Appalachia
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America
California
Bulletin Board
Ear Ieee
Lillian Johnson
National Endowment For Financial Education
Mystery Wheel Baffles Engineers
Felix
Somay Hart
Pamlico Community College
Trent Road
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