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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 10, 1920

Page

6

Training Little Citizens and School of Citizenship Notes

Describes Descriptive music records like In a Clock Store for child attention and imagination. Highlights The Toy Maker's Shop and Bear themes, bed time songs, and home music lessons. Reports Iowa studies on women taxpayers and cafeteria training, plus a School of Citizenship event at the State University of Iowa and wage data for silk workers.

Victor Kistler Eugene Field Wynken Blynken Nod J Mammy Pickanninny Uncle Remus Joe C. Harris Iowa State College Eda Lord Murphy Stout Institute Germany Iowa League of Women Voters State University of Iowa State University Women of Iowa Iowa City Extension Division

Social Calendar February 10 to 17 Highlights

February 10 to 17 social events include Mias Kaine Cunningham hosting Afternoon Bridge at home and Mrs Will Dupuis hosting Fortnightly Home Economics Section One. Fortnightly meetings adjust with the evening section postponed. Officers of the Social Club meet at Mrs Robert Maxwell’s home. Various clubs—Embroidery Navajo Mothers WCTU Rural Women’s Christian Church Ladies Aid—hold afternoon gatherings or box suppers with programs and services throughout the week.

Mias Kaine Cunningham Will Dupuisis Frank J. Wilson Robert Maxwell C. C. Cunningham Regan J. T. Wenger Embroidery Club John Bryson Navajo Club Just Us Club Er. W. Fletcher Mothers’ Club J. N. Phillips W. L. Dalton Christian Church Ladies Aid Society The Women's Christian Temperance Union J. M. Taylor Alba Knotts Lexington Church Bible Department Fortnightly Club Frank LL Wilson

Women in World News Then and Now

A collage notes vast illiteracy among Indian women and compares average heights of English and American women. It mentions Spain joining international suffrage, Queen Maud's embroidery hobby, and Turkish women increasingly seen without veils in Constantinople as American influence grows.

Taft Opposes Woman Party Rally The Pennsylvania League

Miss Helen Taft told the Pennsylvania League of Women Citizens that a separate women’s party would be disastrous. She urged women to work through a chosen political machinery while remaining independent on issues where their interests are sharper, notably child labor and protections for women.

Helen Taft Pennsylvania League of Women Citizens

The Boomerang at the Graham Theatre

Henry B. Walthall headlines The Boomerang at Graham Theatre on Wednesday February 11. The film, praised as a major production, follows timely issues like the high cost of living and the working class wage, with daring and spectacular scenes in seven reels.

Henry B. Walthall Graham Theatre New York

Lords reject clause blocking women from siting in chamber

The British house of lords rejects a bill clause that would remove sex qualifications and allow women to sit in the house of lords.

House of Lords Women's Fair Price Association of Kansas City

Valentine social marks farewell for two Dayton Grove members

The Sew and So club in Dayton Grove held a Valentine social on February 6 at Mrs. Ethel Ferguson home. Thirteen members and guests enjoyed games and a luncheon amid a melancholy note as two members, Mrs. Dan Gass and Mrs. Paul Gass, announce their move.

Sew and So Club Dayton Grove Ethel Ferguson Dan Gass Paul Gass Maude Statley Frankie Moore Jennie Strum Mabel Sigmund Margaret Embree Ola Knotts

Mrs. Coolidge's Early Career Before Governor Husband

Mrs. Calvin Coolidge was a schoolteacher before her marriage to the new Massachusetts governor.

Calvin Coolidge Massachusetts

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