Pan American Congress Endorses Union and Metrics
The second Pan American scientific congress closed with a pledge to create an Inter-American Union to unite technical medical legal and scientific groups. It advocates adopting the metric system, expanding radio, teaching English and Spanish, and boosting malaria and yellow fever control across American republics.
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Lima
Messrs
Arious
Congress
an-American Union
Western Hemisphere
United States
Latin America
Americar
Pamphlet Ad Claims Stuart Calcium Wafers Cure Pimples
An oversize advertorial promises quick cures for pimples blotches blackheads and blemishes claiming the tongue twister trial package will cleanse the blood purge impurities and remove embarrassing disfigurement. The copy hawks calcium wafers as a universal remedy.
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Stuart Bldg
Jatwhall, Mich
Unity of Republics keynote at Pan Americans closing banquet
Delegates hosted by the US depart tomorrow tour north to Boston and New York by January 16. Judge Gray urges readiness against war and world unity, urging pan American solidarity, strengthening sea power, and an army ready for defense while seeking mutual humanity among nations.
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Chile
Americas
Suarez
United States
Boston
New York
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Philadelphia
Princeton
New Haven
Lectures by Policeman Set for Local Schools
A conference between B. W. Murch and Policeman Shelby led to Shelby delivering a lecture course before local schools in the second division. The Morgan School began last Tuesday with Shelby to visit Adams Grant Weightman Force Dennison Cook Chevy Chase Cleveland Park and the Morgan on California Street near Eighteenth Street. A definite program will be announced today as Shelby prepares to cover remaining schools next Tuesday Wednesday and Friday.
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Acheola
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FR Atreet
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Eighteenth
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Weightman
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Eighteenth Streets
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Fourteenth Street
Cook
Seventeenth Street
Huclid Street
Columbia Road
Chevy Chase
Cleveland Park
Morgan
California Street
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Morgen
Borland Praises Missouri Before Washington Group
Missouri representative William F. Borland spoke to the Missouri Society of Washington last night, praising the state's commercial industrial and social progress in patriotic terms. A social program followed with a one act playlet The Nettle performed by Frances L. Pulizzi and Talbot Pulizzi, piano by Hazel Consein, and songs by Edna Bishop Daniel and Edna Scott Smith. Will C. Stierling directed.
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Missouri
Missouri Society of Washington
Willard Holmes
Union
Frances L. Pulizzi
Talbot
Pulizzi
Hazel Consein
Edna Bishop Daniel
Edna Scott Smith
Will C. Stierling
Brookland Brotherhood Banquet Set With Notables
Brookland Brotherhood executive board at Lords Memorial Hall completed plans for the ninth annual banquet at the hall in northeast Washington. President G L Clayton announced speakers Senator Elair Lee of Maryland and Representative Clement Brumbaugh of Columbus Ohio.
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Elair Lee
Maryland
Clement Brumbaugh
Columbus
Ohio
Lee
Brumbaugh
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Senate endorses Susan B Anthony amendment for woman suffrage
Five of seven suffrage committee members affirm the Susan B Anthony amendment. The report argues universal manhood suffrage license extends to women, noting women's wartime and peacetime contributions and urging abolition of sex disqualification. Senators named include Ransdell and Catron dissented.
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United States
Nation Hall
Thomas
Owen
Fansdgli
Hollis
Sutherland
Clapp
Jones
Ransdell
Catron
New Mexico
J Johnson
South Dakota
Talks on Y W C A History by Miss Brown
Miss Florence M. Brown will speak on the history of the YWCA movement Saturday at 7 PM before the evening volunteer workers class at the headquarters 619 Fourteenth Street NW. The notice lists ongoing classes including Spanish home hygiene art history elementary English and dressmaking with a first aid course starting in February and a memory training demonstration by Henry Sutton on January 12 at 8 PM.
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Young Women's Christian Association
Fourteenth Street Northwest
Volunteer Workers
Mra. D
Mary Holmes
Henry Sutton
Dent School Mothers Club Sees Dr Butler Talk Eye Ear and Throat
The January Dent School Mothers Club meeting chaired by Mrs C H Butler featured Dr W K Butler presenting on eye ear and throat health. A special meeting is planned next Friday evening with Brent School Mothers Club as guests to discuss a bill transferring Washington schools authority to the District commissioners.
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H. Butler
W. K. Butler
Brent School Mothers’ Club
Washington
Tribute to Labor Chief and the Federal Employment Bureau
High Department of Labor officials attended a morning presentation to Secretary James B. Wilson. T. V. Powderly, former immigration chief, described the Federal employment bureau as an aid to humanity and a tribute to honest toil. The bureau, created January 8, 1916, has helped thousands find farm work. The event honored Wilson for the bureau’s one year of service.
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Secretary of Labor
James B. Wilson
Federal Employment Bureau
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T. V. Powderly
Saturn Changes Color At Lowell Observatory
Flagstaff Arizona January 8 observers at the Lowell Observatory report Saturn shows a pinkish brown tint to the planet ball and is notably darker than the rings. Comparisons of the planet's brightness with Capella Tarcon and Mary indicate it shines less brightly than previously predicted.
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Immigrant Bureau Officials Named In Brief Listing
Yesterday Anthony Cammnetti commissioner general of immigration John B Densmore solicitor Louis F Post assistant secretary A W Parker and J S Peters of the law division were listed among the officials referenced in the briefing.
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Immigration
John B. Densmore
Louis F. Post
A. W. Parker
J. S. Peters
Law Division
Ashlar Club Dinner Plans for March 9
The Ashlar Club announces its annual banquet on March 9 with high profile attendees expected. Executive committee members include Millard J. Holmes John D. Parker Robert A. Daniel William McNeil John Wilson Alanze W. Shunk and Hubert G. McLean.
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John Heath
Wiliam Hetmke
William H. Holmes
Samuel W. Honaker
Woodson P. Houghton
L. O. Howard
Alec Hrdlicke
Edward L. Hurley
W. V. Hatterly
Andresbarra
Joge Ingenieros
Antolin Iraila
Antonio Batres Isuregui
A. 3. de Araujo Jorge
Edmund J. James
Jeremiah W
Charles Co. McChord
W. J. McHvoy
Burge McPall
Frank McIntyre
Carlos Morales Macedo
Francisco Manrique
Carlos Cuervo Marquez
Juan A. Martin
Diego Martinez
Charles Mathon
Jose Matos
Victor Mauriua
Alberto Diaz de Medina
Feliciano Mendez
Ernesto Neilson
P. Newman
Francia G. Newlands
Byron R. Newton
John Vavasour Noel
Cheodore W. Noyes
Rodrigo Octavio
Joaquin de Oliveira Botelho
Tulio Ospina
KR. V. Quinghan
Lee
Overman
Luis Betim Paes Leme
Carles M. de Pena
Rafael Penaherrera
Armando Perez Perdomo
Juan F. Perez
Benito Javier Peres-Verdia
Alfredo Persigo
Francisco J. Peynado
Frederico Peret
Exmo, Jr
Julio Philippi
Eduardo Rodriguez Pineres
J. Brooks Parker
Eduardo J. Pinto
Amos L. Post
George Foster Peabody
Raymond A. Pearson
Walter Scott Panfield
Charles M. Pepper
Andrew J. Peters
William Phillipa
Alfred Pittman
Louis F. Post
Otto Praeger
Howard E. Pratt
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Alanze W. Shunk
Hubert G. McLean
King George Last of Alaska Slaves Dies at 80
Wrangell Alaska Jan 8 Special The Washington Post reports King George a blind native who lived through Alaska’s slave era died last Saturday at age 80 in his Wrangell cabin He was among the last enslaved Alaskans captured by the Klawok tribe and later freed by the United States government He fled to Wrangell after threats over witchcraft and spent years fishing before losing his sight completely
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$25,000,000 Plant Planned on Coast by Shipbuilder Firm
Oakland reports Eastern capitalists intend to invest 25 million dollars in a new shipbuilding plant to be built in the city. A Boole, formerly head of a local shipbuilding concern, is said to have accepted the presidency of the Standard Shipbuilding Corporation of New York, which organized the project.
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New York
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