Foyers in France open social centers for girls workers
Four French government departments asked the American YMCA to run social and recreation centers for girls employed in Finance Commerce War and Labor. Lieutenant Foncet of Labor urged starting after seeing similar War ministry centers. Sixteen such foyers exist in France with three in Paris. The last foyer for Labor workers is near the T. Eifel Tower and Quai d Orsay, offering bright rooms reading and writing areas a small kitchen and classes in English.
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Ministry of Labor
Ahia
Ministry of War
Citiea
France
Paria
YWCA Hostess House served 400000 Yanks at Camp Lewis
The YWCA Hostess House at Camp Lewis Washington logged about 400000 visitors in a year. Most were mothers wives and friends visiting soldiers while 25000 children were cared for in nursery and rest room. Staff fielded 97000 questions via info desk and 10000 plus calls to company commanders about soldier arrivals and related arrangements.
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Camp Lewis
France
YWCA Cafeteria in Porto Rico Opens for Soldiers
Porto Rico hosts its first YWCA cafeteria at Camp Las Casas in the Hostess House. Native crowds enjoyed American dishes as locals and San Juan women organized weekly sock and button drives for soldiers, quickly making the house a well known site.
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Porto Rico
Y. W. CG
Camp Las Casas
San Juan
Russian Princesses Learn to Trim Hats in War Effort
YW. OW, C. A. reports that Russian princesses work with peasant and noble wives at the Grat Women's Cooperative Association in Moscow. The effort funds established jobs in dressmaking and hat trimming to support families, keeping a general's wife from becoming a charwoman.
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C. A
Russia
Je Wan
Association For
Dlae
Tivesta
Chariucinan
AEBSAGE TO Y. W.C. A. FROM FRANCE
Describes gratitude from the Krenek Government for aiding women workers in government factories via the YWCA and expresses hope the effort continues to advance social welfare and worker conditions during wartime.
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Krenek
T. We.c A
W.C
Nurses Produce Wild West Picture Show
Nurses at a hospital staged a living picture show without cameras or set props. A Roumanian guest, Ceostea Fecaresca, praised the act as the most appreciative among guests from the German courts while the nurses performed bucking bronco and desert scenery with improvised props and placards.
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France
Facionale
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Basa
Pandera
Ceostea Fecaresca
Reamenks
Insignia and Curtains Made From Skirts in War Economy
wartime economy shifts as Insignia and curtains are fashioned from old skirts. Secretaries in Archangel complain of shortages while US and Allied lines press food, clothing, and rationing. Work centers open from Petrograd to Samara. Elizabetha Boles leads a Soviet recruitment drive to lure American workers for Russia.
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Archangel
Ussba
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Deaton House
Russia
Petrograd
Noscow
Samara
Aiden
Moscow
Misa Ellizabeta
Care for Wives and Children Opens at Canines Camp
WC A Hostess Mousa announces a new facility at Canines Cairn Hawaii Island to assist wives and children of soldiers. In its first 15 days in November the house welcomed 23,123 visitors from many nationalities including Filipino, Mexican, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Korean, Japanese, and others amid an overflow from earlier camp housing.
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Mousa
Canines
Cairn
Hawaiiies Island
Porto Rico
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