Win the War Congress Opens in Birmingham Tomorrow
The in the War Congress gathers in Birmingham Alabama with hundreds of delegates from states cities colleges and organizations. Women leaders Jane Addams Grace Abbott will speak on feeding the world and women in industry respectively.
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Birmingham
Ala
Lst
Southern Sociological Congress
Birmingham Civic Association
South
Congress
America
Jane Addams
Hull House
Hoover
Grace Abbott
Federal Children’s Bureau
Washington
Alabama
Thomas W. Bickett
North Carolina
J. W. Abercrombie
United States Department of Labor
Great Britain
Grimwood Mears
Bascon Johnson
France
C. A. Derole
French Army Medical Corps
Frederic Lynch
Church Peace League of America
Solid South
C. H. Brough
Arkansas
World War and Brotherhood
Charles I. MacFarland
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Stockton Axson
American Red Cross
Women in Washington Fill War Roles Across Agencies
In federal offices in Washington thousands of women have taken war work as bookkeepers shipping clerks draftsmen topographers and fingerprint experts, reshaping the government workforce during wartime.
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Washington
South Carolina Creates State Board of Correctional Administration
Governor Manning signed the act creating the State board of correctional administration with direct oversight of the Florence reformatory for wayward white girls the negro boys reform school and the Industrial school at Florence. The governor named five members: B G Clary Gaffney J A Mood Sumter E M Matthews Florence W B Wilbur Charleston and Dr A T Jamison Greenville who was made board chairman.
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Columbia
D. C
Manning
General Assembly
State Board of Correctional Administration
Reformatory
Reformatory For
South Carolina Industrial School
Florence
B. G. Clary
Gaffney
J. A. Mood
Sumter
E. M. Matthews
Phyticians Invite Navy Secretary Daniels to Columbia
The Phyticians plan a major program for the grand lodge convention in Columbia on May 28. They urge Josephus Daniels Secretary of the Navy to visit and deliver an address at Camp Jackson. Governors Manning and others will be asked to send supportive messages.
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Columbia
S. C
Grand Lodge
Josephus Daniels
Opticians Meet in Grenville South Carolina
The South Carolina Optical Association held its annual convention in Textile hall Grenville. About 175 members and guests attended lectures papers and discussions. Officers elected include T A W Elmgreen president W R Campbell first vice president Miss Gertrude Mabus second vice president and R A Brown secretary and treasurer. The 1919 convention will be in Charleston in the second week of April.
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Grenville
S. C
South Carolina Optical Association
T. A. W. Elmgreen
Columbia
W. R. Campbell
Anderson
Gertrude Mabus
Charleston
R. A. Brown
Greenville
Bank Clearings in Columbia Set Record in March
Bank clearings in Columbia for March reached 8.504 million dollars, up from 4.661 million a year earlier. The three months totaled about 25 million dollars, per B F P Leaphart secretary of the Columbia Clearing House Association.
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Columbia
S. C
B. F. P. Leaphart
Columbia Clearing House Association
Large raid nets 2,000 gallons beer and 300 whiskey
Campobello South Carolina April 13 sheriff and a revenue officer with military police raided a mountain still near Tryon North Carolina capturing 2,000 gallons of beer and 300 gallons of whiskey. The 60 gallon per day plant was valued at $8,000. No arrests. operators fled as fire burned leaving overalls behind.
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Campobello
S. C
Tryon
N C
Aiken to Host South Carolina Federation of Women Clubs
Aiken, S C April 13 The federation plans a three day convention April 24 25 and 26 with hundreds of women leaders from federated clubs across the state expected. The event aims to be a pleasant and profitable gathering despite war conditions.
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Federation of Women’s Clubs
Aiken
S. C
South Carolina
Austria Hungary faces food profiteering and hoarding
Austrian Hungary suffers food supply abuses as Hungarian newspapers report sweeping government actions. Officials pursued 194 individuals in 31 profiteering cases with schemes from printed food cards to fake registrations. One Budapest printer ran a thriving card business and received two years. a discharged soldier used multiple names to obtain cards, amassing 22 cards and 16 registration papers.
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Washington
Austria- Hungary
Budapest
Catarrhal Deafness Ad Claims Cure by Hall's Catarrh Medicine
An old advertisement asserts catarrhal deafness arises from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a cure through the bloodstream. It offers one hundred dollars for any case not cured by the remedy and lists a Toledo druggist as distributor.
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Hall
Tyney & CO
Toledo
Girl of My Heart to Play at Academy of Music Tonight
Perry J. Kelly presents the musical Girl of My Heart at the Academy of Music with book and lyrics by Arthur Lamb and music by Jules Chauvenet. The play follows a daring American girl through lively scenes and romance set in New York and Japan with a lavish production and songs like Mabel and Twenty Ways to Kiss a Maid. Cast includes Eda Ann Luke as Mabel Splendid, Vertner Saxton, Florence Beresford, and others. prices 50 cents to 1.50.
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Perry J. Kelly
Academy of Music
Arthur J. Lamb
Jules Chauvenet
Tittle
Mabel
William J. McCarthy
Charles W. Myers
Lois Arnold
Walter Ware
Thomas F. Reynolds
Frank MacEwan
New York City
Japan
Five Women Guard Ocean Beach Lifesaving Post
Ocean Beach in Southern California employs five women as life saving guards to patrol the seaside resort. They staff the station during peak hours to ensure swimmer safety and respond to emergencies along the coast.
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Ocean Beach
California
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the Girl OF
Academy of Music Tonight
Neral
By Jules Chavenet Book
Eda Ann Luke
Elvington’s
Lesher Whitman & CO. Inc
Broadway
New York
Winter Park
Wrightsville
Wrightsville Beach
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Leave “Electric Centre
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