MSA SC 4062-1-1
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1917-1919
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Correspondence from the Library War Service, Second Library War Fund, and Library War Council of the American Library Association concerning fund raising and book collection for service men. Other correspondents include Maryland Public Library Commission, Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Office of the Chief of Staff for the War Department, Women's Section of the Maryland Council of Defense, and the National Library Service at the Bureau of Education in the Department of the Interior, as well as individuals and companies such as Mrs. William Jarnian Trappe, Mrs. Annie K. N. Barnes, Mrs. G. L. Barnes, The Stockton Bank, The Showell Manufacturing Co., and Pocomoke City National Bank. Folder also includes pamphlets, newsletters, and examples of forms. Signatures on the letters include Edith Guerrier, Mary L. Titcomb, John W. Ennis, E. L. Munson, Eliott P. Frost, M. W. Meyer, L. H. Wichman, Charlotte Newell, E. W. H. Scott, Harold Braddock, L. Carrie Shockley, Lucile Ross Taylor, Frank P. Hill, Herbert Putnam, George B. Utley, and Carl H. Milam.
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MSA SC 4062-1-2
NO RESTRICTIONS
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1917-1919
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00/66/06/06
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File contains correspondence and receipts from a variety of sources. Receipts are from Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic Railway Co., J. Edward Richardson & Co., and O'Donovan Bros. for the purchase and shipping of office supplies. The correspondence in the file comes from Motion Picture Dept. of the Chicago Herald located in New York City, Women's Preparedness and Survey Commission of Worcester County, Maryland, Maryland Council of Defense for Worcester County, Maryland, and the U. S. Boys' Working Reserve of the U. S. Employment Service at the U. S. Department of Labor.
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MSA SC 4062-1-3
NO RESTRICTIONS
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1917-1919
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00/66/06/06
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Correspondence in this file is concerned primarily with the health and welfare of infants and children. Correspondents include the Health Editor for The Delineator, the Children's Bureau at the U. S. Department of Labor, the National Child Labor Committee, Women's Section of the Maryland Council of Defense, Better Babies Bureau at the Woman's Home Companion, The Crowell Publishing Company, Women's Civic League, Alliance of Charitable and Social Agencies, and the National Child Labor Committee. While much of the correspondence covers the availability of literature and information on pediatric health and nutrition, there is also a request for support for congressional bills regulating child labor, pledge for children to sign showing their patriotism, forms and charts for reporting children's height and weight, a pamphlet soliciting donations, a request to attend a meeting of rural teachers, statistics on use of milk, as well as a response to a request for a visit to a local family to check the welfare of the children. Signatures on letters include Josephine J. Eschenbrenner, Julia C. Lathrop, Edward N. Clopper, Mrs. Francis King Carey, Caroline French Benton, Mary Jane Schweizer, Mary P. Pusey, Sarah A. Olvier, and C. E. Terry.
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MSA SC 4062-1-4
NO RESTRICTIONS
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1915-1919
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00/66/06/06
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Correspondence from the County Agent for Cooperative Extension Service of the Maryland State College of Agriculture, Women's Preparedness and Survey Commission of Worcester County, and States Relations Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The correspondence includes such topics as visits of County Agents, controlling plant infestations, arrangements for meetings and meeting topics, funding for the position of home demonstrator for Worcester County, food shortages, and instructions to state and county Home Demonstration Agents. Folder contents also include a business card from the Assistant Forester for the Maryland State Board of Forestry at Johns Hopkins University as well as by-laws for the Hog Growers Association. Signatures on letters include E. I. Oswald, Lucy J. Walter, Hammond L. Wessling, John T. Mouror, Mattie C. Taylor, and Katharine A. Pritchett.
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MSA SC 4062-1-5
NO RESTRICTIONS
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1917-1918
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00/66/06/06
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This file contains correspondence from Library of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Women's Preparedness and Survey Commission of Worcester County, Cooperative Extension of the Maryland State College of Agriculture, Federal Food Administration, Maryland Headquarters for the National Food Conservation Campaign, concerning the national campaign for production and conservation of food. Topics also include retail price reporting program. Letters are signed by Mary Purnell Wharton, John F. Monroe, Jr., Raymond Perl, L. Carrie Shockley, Francis King Carey, E. G. Baetjer, and Bernard C. Steiner. There is also an Application of Consumer for Annual Requirements signed by Sarah Matthews Handy as well as a garden planning guide.
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MSA SC 4062-1-6
NO RESTRICTIONS
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1916-1919
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00/66/06/06
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Correspondents in this file include the Bureau of War Risk Insurance at the Treasury Department, Office of General Supply Depot at Newport News, National Headquarters of the Woman's Section Navy League, Board of Education for Worcester County, Women's Preparedness and Survey Commission, American Ambulance in Russia, and The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in London. In addition there are letters from the following Red Cross Organizations: Home Service Section in Snow Hill, Potomac Division, Bureau of Home Service Education of the Potomac Division, and Worcester County Chapter. The letters are primarily concerned with life insurance and compensation for service men, recruitment and work with American Red Cross' Civilian Relief and Home Service. Signatures on letters include M. R. Ginn, Rozelle Purnell Handy, Mrs. P. N. Murray, M. M. Bratten, V. L. Vincent, Mr. Fred Hastings, Helen K. Shipps, Eugenia Bryant, E. Kate P. Whaley, Kate W. Purnell, Annie M Staton, P. M. Conley, Mrs. Will Brevard, and Mary E. Merritt, Hamilton Fish, Jr. In addition, there is a pamphlet, "Women and Victory" by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, instructions on how to make a "Liberty Housewife" for service men, and a weekend pass for William Houston Cook from Camp Meade, Maryland.
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MSA SC 4062-1-7
NO RESTRICTIONS
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1917-1919
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00/66/06/06
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Correspondence concerning the League of Nations from the League to Enforce Peace and the Maryland State Convention for the League of Nations. In addition, there are letters on the Woman's Land Army and Women's Liberty Loan committee. Signatures appearing on the letters include Julia M. Robins, Bessie Cone, John W. Ennis, Matilda B. Maloy, and Antoinette Funk.
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MSA SC 4062-1-8
NO RESTRICTIONS
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1917-1919
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00/66/06/06
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Correspondence centers efforts on the part of returning service men and a war memorial. Appointment letters for Roselle Handy to the Reception Committee and the Committee on Memorial for Worcester County, the Maryland Council of Defense for Worcester County, and as Chairman of Educational Propaganda for the Women's Section of the Maryland Council of Defense. File includes letters from the Woman's Section of the Maryland Council of Defense for Worcester County, Maryland Council of Defense, and Women's Section of the Council of National Defense. In addition, there is a pamphlet on training for employment, a request from Secretary of the Interior for the Maryland Council of Defense to continue its activities, and a letter explaining the duties of the Chairman for East Berlin District for the Women's Preparedness and Survey Commission for Worcester County. Signatures on letters include Elizabeth T. Shoemaker, Julia M. Robins, G. W. Haddoway, Matilda B. Malory, Julia Rogers, and F. E. Waters.
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MSA SC 4062-1-9
NO RESTRICTIONS
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1918
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00/66/06/06
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This file contains instructions for recruiting agents for the U. S. Student Nurse Reserve as well as enrollment in the reserve provided by the Woman's Committee of Council of National Defense. In addition, there are letters of information and forms relating to elementary instruction classes for care of the sick from the American Red Cross. Finally, a form letter from Edith Kermit Roosevelt requesting Rozelle Handy organized a branch of the Needlework Guild. There are also several two-cent postcards.
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MSA SC 4062-1-10
NO RESTRICTIONS
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1917-1919
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00/66/06/06
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Correspondence from the Women's Preparedness and Survey Commission for Worcester Country, the Women's Section of the Maryland Council of Defense, Maryland Branch of the League to Enforce Peace, Department of Educational Propaganda of the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense, National Security League, Committee of the Maryland Council of Defense of Maryland for Girdletree, Central Branch of the Young Women's Christian Association, Indiana University, The Ledger/Enterprise, and Committee on Public Information primarily on patriotic propaganda. Letter topics include organizational information, how to plan meetings, possible content for meetings, as well as requests for various publications. Some signatures on letters include S. R. Carter, Henrietta D. Stonestreet, G. D. Barnes, Mary E. Halloway, B. B. Shauck, Mary R. Staton, Julia Rogers, Etta V. Leighton, Margaret L. Lingo, Mrs. Clayton Purness, Julia M. Robins, Aura A. Lloyd, Mrs. F. E. Hudson, May O. Johnston, M. E. Holloway, Florence E. Wilbur, P. L Doole, Ethel P. Gregory, K. Barnes, Anne Rothwell Stewart, Mary L. Litcomb, and Julia A. Purnell.
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MSA SC 4062-1-11
NO RESTRICTIONS
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1916-1919
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00/66/06/06
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File contains letters from the Maryland Council of Defense, Woman’s Section for Worcester County and Women’s Preparedness and Survey Commission. Letters discuss the organization of workers at the local level, organizing new committees and patriotic meetings, suggestions of possible committee members and replacements for departing members, requests for reports as well as specific information to include in reports, posting information, advertising meetings, arrangements for speakers, notification a visits by state representative, health of family members, canceling meetings due to influenza outbreak, and filling the position of County Nurse. The names of many local women appear in the letters, some of whom include: Mrs. Gregor, Mrs. Clayton J. Purnell, Mrs. Wharton, Katherine Pilchard, Mrs. George Barnes, Mrs. Edna Duffy, Mrs. Edward Whaley, Mrs. Potter, Miss Helen Bishop, Mrs. Lloyd, Mrs. Jenkins, Mrs. John Staton, Mrs. M. G. Blachly, Mrs. Wisehart, Julia M. Robins, and Julia A. Purnell.
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MSA SC 4062-1-12
NO RESTRICTIONS
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1918-1919
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00/66/06/06
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Correspondents in this file include Charles G. Woolsey, Army Song-Leader for Baltimore War Camp Community Service; Frederick Huber, State Director of Music for the Maryland Council of Defense, Music Committee; Miss S. R. Carter, Chairman of the Educational Propaganda Committee at the Maryland Council of Defense, Women’s Section; and Katherine D. Lucke, Chairman of the Music Committee, National Federation of Women’s Clubs. The primary topic of the correspondence is organizing patriotic "Community Singing." An unsigned letter does mention the number of babies and young children weighed in Pocomoke City. This section of Rozelle Handy’s letter box also contained a letter from Lanta Smack.
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MSA SC 4062-1-13
NO RESTRICTIONS
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1918-1919
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00/66/06/06
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This file contains letters, postcards, pamphlets, news releases, flyers, and letters of support concerning venereal disease and education. Organizations include United War Work Campaign, Illinois Vigilance Association, American Library Association, United States Bureau of Pubic Health Service at the Treasury Department, and The American Social Hygiene Association, Inc. The file includes an annotated copy of Lord Kitchener’s Instructions to Soldiers, an annotated copy of Three Great Army Records by Wirt W. Hallam, a pamphlet of quotes by military personnel, and a flyer promoting the need for sex education of boys by parents.
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MSA SC 4062-1-14
NO RESTRICTIONS
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1919
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00/66/06/06
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Letters and a pamphlet on the "Thrift Stamps for Junk" program organized by the Women's Division of the War Loan Organization.
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MSA SC 4062-1-15
NO RESTRICTIONS
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1917-1918
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00/66/06/06
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Description
This file contains unfiled items found in this letter box. Included in this file is a pamphlet from Le Bien-Être du Blessé, a letter and accompanying pamphlet from The Board of Sunday Schools of the Methodist Episcopal Church on the Red Cross, a pamphlet from National Child Labor Committee, a letter from the World Trade Club promoting the conversion to a metric system for weights and measures, and an index card listing expenses for Council of Defense. In addition there are letters from Maryland Council of Defense, Women’s Section thanking for Miss Handy for her efforts. Miss Handy’s establishment of the Friendly Library as a means of patriotic education is commented on favorably in a letter from the Maryland Council of Defense, Women’s Section. Also included in this file are blank, addressed postcards from Miss Lucy Walker, Emergency Home Demonstration Agent.
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