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Addams discussed the role of schools in preparing children for life in a speech at the Ethical Society.

Women argue against setting a weekly salary of $2,50 because it was not sufficient to health and well-being.

Addams and Thomas argue why boys 14 and younger should be sent to school rather than work as messengers.

Addams disputes a claim that a settlement house based on Hull-House was to be established in Paris.

Addams and Henrotin discuss the need to form a union for housewives at a meeting of the Chicago Workingwoman's Association.

Addams asks the Mayor for permission to see Abraham Isaak and other anarchists arrested in the wake of the McKinley assassination.

Taylor and Addams discuss the arrest of Abraham Isaak.

Addams discusses the evils of the sweatshop system and urges women to look for the union label when shopping for goods.

Addams remarks on an altercation between Clement Pfuetzner and socialists meeting at Hull House.

Addams, Thomas, and Gunsaulus decry the proposal of H. H. Powers to exterminate the feeble-minded for the benefit of the strong.

A summary of Addams' talk on Tolstoy and settlements, given at the First Unitarian Church in Minneapolis.

Addams and Bodine discuss changes needed in compulsory education rules to make them more effective.

Addams dismisses comic valentines as coarse at a meeting of the Ravenswood Woman's Club.

Addams discusses the role of neighborhood centers can play in fostering community.

Addams answers questions from the audience about efforts to prevent war or national competition. The speech was given to the Daughters of the Revolution.

A description of services for John Altgeld, including quotes from Addams and Clarence Darrow's speeches.

A summary of Addams's speech on saloons before the League for Political Education in New York argues for limiting, not stopping, the sale of liquor.

Addams reflects on the railroad crash she endured and gives her impressions of the General Federation of Women's Clubs meeting.

Addams discusses the need for better building regulations to prevent tenement fires.

Addams discusses the settlement house's role as a charity and the means by which it appeals to the poor. She spoke at the Decatur Chautauqua.

Addams discusses the Hull-House Labor Museum and the effect of factories on craftsmanship.

Addams responds to Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews provocative statement that unmarried individuals "have no place in society nor in the scheme of the universe." This is part of a longer article that quotes many people.

Addams attends the Middle States and Mississippi Valley Negro Exposition and comments that in future the work of women will equal that of men.

Addams tells stories of pioneers in Chicago that her father told her.

Addams discusses the education of immigrants

Addams exhorts members of the Chicago Political Equality League to work against child labor and towards educating the poor.

Reports the creation of a resolution by the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs to name Jane Addams to President Roosevelt's commission to settle a miner's strike.

Addams discusses the benefits to having a referendum system.

Addams discussed the ills of child labor at a meeting of interested people in Chicago.

Addams proposes changes to the child labor and compulsory education laws for endorsement to the League of Cook County Women's Clubs.

Addams and De Bey urge Chicago clubwomen to visit factories to see the working conditions for children and discuss a measure that will make it more difficult to keep children out of school.

Addams discusses woman's capacity for bad behavior and that women's philanthropy should be more active in areas like child labor.

Addams discusses efforts made to reach the needy through settlement work. She delivered this speech at the annual meeting of the Associated Charities.

Addams weighs in on the idea that women who work in household service are more likely to marry more frequently and in better circumstance. This is part of a longer article.

Addams notes abuses of Hull-Houses day nurseries by lazy fathers whose wives have to work.

Addams discusses the problems of child labor in relation to compulsory education.

Addams refuses to be quoted about Frances Dickinson's ideas about marriage by contract.

Addams discusses the different methods of social work and describes how the settlement works to help society.

Addams details the evils of child labor and efforts to abolish it in Illinois.

Addams notes that immigrant families are used to having children work but do not see the difference between farm and factory work.

Addams describes social settlement work and its impact on immigrant neighborhoods.

Addams discusses her experiences with immigrants in a talk to the Cook County Teachers' Association.

Addams discusses which widows can be granted scholarships for their children.

Addams urges universal disarmament of nations, and the substitution of moral influence for war.

Addams argues for more high schools with better furnishings.

Addams opposes citizens carrying concealed weapons.

Addams encourages college women at Wellesley to use their educations to improve the lives of immigrants.

Addams discusses the importance of the Consumer's League in pushing for child labor reforms.

Addams reports on efforts of women in creating exhibits that discussed British efforts to provide adequate housing for impoverished families.

Addams reports on efforts of women in creating exhibits that discussed social economy compared to the Paris Exhibition in 1900.

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