Women pledge help prepared for any service
American women mobilize for war effort across home, farm, and factory. Red Cross drives women drivers for ambulances. others ready to cook, nurse, or staff munition plants. National Special Aid Society lists roles from ticket agents to physicians, teachers, and nurses. 4,000 members involved as domestic workers and caregivers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Europe
Washington
American Red Cross
National Special Aid Society
Eee
Isabel Worrell Ball
Woman's Relief Corp
Red Cross
Danderine Hair Ad Promises Dandruff Cure
A vintage advertisement touts Knowlton's Danderine as a 25 cent remedy that removes dandruff and prevents hair loss within minutes. It claims hair becomes thicker, shinier, and newly grown after weeks of use, urging readers to buy at drug stores or toilet counters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knowlton
Little
Danderina
Adv
Women Leaders Call for Preparedness and Patriotic Duty
Washington women leaders outline a broad mobilization plan stressing thrift, home management, and national service. They urge housewives to curb waste, support families, and enable men to serve, while promoting nursing, relief work, and industrial duties for women in wartime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Alexander Graham Hell
Ellen Spencer Massey
Washington College of Law
United States
Abram Simon
National Federation of Teble Sisterhoods
America
Today's Beauty Hint Shampoo at Home with Canthrax
The magazine advises not to shampoo hair too often if it is clean. It recommends a cheap quick drying shampoo made by dissolving a teaspoon of canthrax in hot water to make a cup of liquid that cleans all hair and scalp. It soothes the scalp and leaves hair fresh, fast drying, and fluffy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Barnett
United States Marine Corps
National Committee On
Woman's Section
Navy League
America
United States
Susie Root Rhodes
Hoard of
Education
Unita
Unusual Savings in Better Clothes for Boys
Unusual savings on boys suits at Palzi s Royal Street Floor. Prices cut on Blue Serge suits from 6 50 to 1 49 and 1 89 with many up to 3 50. Wash suits featured at 1 49 and 1 89. Reduced for Monday.
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Palzis
Royal—Street
Untrimmed Millinery Blooming Flower Sale
A large assortment of flowers from tiny blossoms to large roses and poppies, plus fruit berries, cherries and small wax flowers with foliage. Prices range from 75c to 8.50, with many items at 50c 75c and 1.25.
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Mrrs. Bell
Emma Sanford Shelton
Woman's Christian Temperance Union of
Mabel Boardman
Red Crosse
Elizabeth Ellicott Poe
Woman's Facction
Aincets
National Service School, Incorporated
Theodore Bailey Myers Mason
Twentieth Street
Woman’s Section
The
District of Columbia Federation of Women’s Clubs
Flora McDonald Thompson
Housekeepers’ Alliance
Nurse Corps
Army
United States Domestic Service Corps
MAS
William Hamilton Bayly
Young Women’s Christian Association
Miss Mabel Boardman
H. T. Rainey
Council of Girl Scouts
Fom
Marine Corps
National Committee On Voluntary Aid
Internal Revenue
Riggs National Bank Penna, Ava
U. S. Treasury
U. S
Finth Ave
New Yoek
Children's Department
ITREL
Adloa
Bic
Infanta
Triple XXX
Belmar
Peerless
Maline Dainte
Exposition
Tilusion
Royalton
Gotham
Voile
Beaux Art
Knickerbocker
Narraganesta
Marlboro
Norfolk
Milan
Belgium
China
Palais Roysel
Palas Royal
Wm. A. Rogers
Riple
Rogers and Niagar Falls
Palain Royal—Street
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