National League for Women’s Service Expands Peace Time Work
The National League for Women’s Service, formed in 1917, outlines a broadened postwar program to provide trained women in communities to meet social and economic needs. Jamaica’s motor corps aids crippled children, districts nurses, and clothing shops support families, while Americanization and immigration aid grow nationwide with hundreds of branches and tens of thousands of members.
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National League For Women’s Service
League
Motor Division
Motor Corps
Jamaica
Aotor Corps
Gertrude
New York State
Detroit
Chicago
St. Louis
San Francisco
Europe
Council of Jewish Women
Helen Winkler
T. A. Levy
Syracuse
N. Y
Chamber of Commerce
Frederick Schoff
Philadelphia
National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teachers’ Associations
Washington Monument A Centennial Obelisk Observed
The article quotes William Howard Taft praising the Washington monument as a sublime fusion of art and national memory. It recounts the design by Robert Mills, the shift from a planned pantheon to an obelisk, cornerstone laid July 4 1848, and later completion in 1884 with a capstone and aluminum tip.
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Robert C. Winthrop
Washington Monument
National Geographic Magazine
William Howard Taft
District of Columbia
Capitol
White House
Heaven
Kansas City Star
Robert Mills
Washington
Congress
John Marshall
Washington Monument Society
Rand-McNally
Washington Park
Blue Ridge
Potomac
Chainbridge
Mount Vernon
Cliff Swallows Clean Up Insect Pests Says Forestry Group
The American Forestry Association in Washington urges bird house building to attract cliff swallows. These birds eat thousands of flies and fruit-tree pests daily and nest on barn exteriors in large colonies. They winter in the tropics and build gourd-shaped clay nests lined with straw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Forestry Association
Washington
Tropics
Spray painting corrugated steel for hangars during wartime
The article explains a spray painting method for corrugated steel used in air plane hangars. Hand painting was impractical due to volume and machines couldn't reach corrugations. Sheets were pre-coated with red lead, then sprayed with green on one side and gray on the other, prior to corrugation.
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Nationaleague Women's Service
Department of the Interior
C. H. Paull
Harvard University
Peter Roberts
The
International Y. M
Association
Bureau of Child Hygiene
S. Josephine Baker
Bureau of Hygiene
New York City
New York Diet Kitchen Association
Harvey Wiley
National Bureau of Health
Workers For Child Conservation
London
New York
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