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...employes). The children of his first marriage (to Mary G. Stilwell, died 1884) are Mrs. Marion Estelle Edison Oser of Norwalk. Conn., relict of a German officer; Thomas Alva Edison Jr., consulting engineer to Edison industries; William Leslie Edison, 53, inventor, of Wilmington, Del. The children of Mrs. Mina Miller Edison, who is mentioned in the will as having been "adequately provided for," are Charles Edison, 41, president of Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Mrs. John Eyre Sloane of Llewellyn Park, N. J.; and Theodore M. Edison. 35, research chief in his father's interests. Closest to the great inventor...
...policewomen. Practically all are muscular women, married and graduated from social work. Mrs. Lola J. Baldwin of Portland, Ore., thinks she was the first U. S. policewoman. Mrs. Alice S. Wells of Los Angeles, first (1915) president of the International Association of Policewomen, thinks she was the first. Mrs. Mina C. Van Winkle of Washington, president since 1919, ignores the kudos of such priority. Last week she insisted that more communities employ women to deal with arrested women and children below eleven. She would have policewomen take over the work and duties of the Traveler's Aid Society...
Said Mrs. Mina Van Winkle, chief of policewomen: "That tom-tommy sort of Oriental music that makes men forget home and babies...
Depressed by Esther's marriage, Meyer goes to a call house with Margot, Riverside Drive street walker. Both become very drunk. Madame Mina of the call house finds Meyer is a lawyer. Says Madame Mina: "Downstairs is the janitor woman, a widow. She's got one girl, only 16. She's been away for four days. She was with the iceman's girl. All evening the mother was after Jennie to tell where she's been and what she has been doing. A millionaire. . . . You know the reformer. . . .Yes, that's the name...
Meanwhile the honors fell thick and fast. The appointees included Mrs. H. H. Foster for Arkansas, Mrs. Porter Von Cannon for Idaho, Mrs. Emily F. Genssler for Louisiana, Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird for Massachusetts, Mrs. Manley Fosseen for Minnesota, Miss Belle B. Boyd for Nevada, Mrs. Mina Otera-Warren for New Mexico, Mrs. Charles H. Sabin for New York, Mrs. John Gordon Battelle for Ohio, Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton for Pennsylvania, Mrs. M. M. Caldwell for Virginia...