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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1928
Page
11
A school supply publisher features a piece on guiding youth to select worthy hero models. It argues youth imitate great men and women, warning against glorifying pirates and criminals. It emphasizes choosing history’s honored figures, like Washington, for positive aspirational models.
The piece notes 115000 blind people in the United States and few cripples abroad, attributing international differences to war and sanitation. It cites industrial accidents and preventive factory safeguards reducing disability, and mentions Elisha as a center focusing on preventing crippling causes, urging universal vigilance.
The article discusses how marriage vows once linked to death now imply obligations after death. It explains life insurance as a means to guarantee an estate for a family, especially for those who start life with little wealth. It argues insurance plans secure wealth for spouses and children, preventing dependence on society.
A reader asks about electric belts for constipation and overall health. The column notes the need to send questions with postage to cover printing and handling costs, and mentions an editor’s note to ignore certain parts while replying in turn.
Mary Anderson, born in Sweden, rose to director of the U S Women's Bureau, advocating organized women workers. She traveled as a garment and shoe industry organizer, shaping women’s labor roles from home workshops to factories, and led the Bureau through wartime and postwar changes.
The passage notes a transformation in work and family life as women enter factories with weekly pay, reshaping social structures. It highlights better education, citizenship rights, and wartime demands elevating women’s roles, while census data show nearly two million married women employed outside home. It also touches on French modernism’s American reception and copyright debates in design trade.
Paris designers and Parisian furnishings makers gripe that the United States has no modern decorative art of its own and accuse Americans of plundering French work. M. Domingue laments the situation while noting U.S. admiration of French style and seeks protection measures.
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