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Plan for turning "La voix de I'Humanité" -- "Die Menschheit"
Into a Daily Paper, August 22, 1919

A plan to publish a daily international paper in Geneva.

Finances Internationalism Journalism

Rudolf Broda to Jane Addams, August 22, 1919

Broda asks Addams to support efforts to create an international daily devoted to the work of the League of Nations.

Internationalism Journalism

Oswald Garrison Villard to Jane Addams, September 9, 1918

Villard tells Addams that he sold The Post and will concentrate work on The Nation and invites her to attend a staff luncheon.

Requests

Interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 5, 1918

Addams discusses the effects of the war on young girls and women, efforts to ban German-language newspapers, and food conservation efforts.

Immigrants Morality Recreation Women World War I

Jane Addams to Emily Greene Balch, July 14, 1917

Addams tells Balch that she is writing an account of a conference in Chicago and welcomes Balch's suggestions to an international program.

Conferences Internationalism Meetings

Plain Dealer's Post Box, July 1, 1917

Various people write letters to the German Republic of their responses to a piece by the editor.

Germany Publishing War

Anonymous ("An American Citizen") to Jane Addams, March 7, 1917

An "American Citizen who loves his Country"sends Addams a plea to boycott the newspapers that he feels are driving the United States into World War I.

Peace World War I

Anonymous ("A Real American Citizen") to the Editor, March 6, 1917

A "Rreal American Citizen" calls for a boycott of subsidized newspapers due to their warmongering.

Journalism Peace Preparedness World War I

Edith Franklin Wyatt to Jane Addams, May 19, 1916

Wyatt suggests writers in New York who might help with peace propaganda.

Journalism Peace

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, February 7, 1916

Kellogg discusses the various reports of the Ford peace expedition with Addams.

Peace Publishing

Mary Onahan Gallery to Jane Addams, November 29, 1915

Gallery asks Addams if she knows of a place where her article could be published, as she wants to reach a wider audience.

Peace Publishing Requests

Peace and the Press, October 11, 1915

Addams discusses the power that the press has to influence public opinion on World War I.

Public Opinion World War I

Jenkin Lloyd Jones to Jane Addams, April 5, 1915

Jones tells Addams about Smith, who is accompanying his wife on the trip to The Hague.

Conferences Journalism Travels

Gifford Pinchot to Jane Addams, January 27, 1913

Pinchot sends Addams some newspapers articles he thinks she will find interesting.

Progressive Party

Ida Husted Harper to Jane Addams, September 25, 1912

Harper writes Addams to explain something erroneous attributed to her in the newspaper, which were critical of Addams. She also criticizes Addams for seconding Roosevelt.

Criticism Public Opinion Woman Suffrage

Virgil V. McNitt to Jane Addams, September 21, 1912

McNitt provides Addams with a list of newspapers that purchased her articles about the Progressive Party and the income received.

Finances Publishing

Frank Harper to Frances Alice Kellor, August 22, 1912

Harper writes Kellor to clarifies Theodore Roosevelt's position on woman suffrage.

Politics Woman Suffrage

John Baptis Rayner to Jane Addams, August 20, 1912

Rayner sends Addams an article he wrote about the benefits of farming for African Americans.

African-Americans

H. L. Scott to Jane Addams, August 16, 1912

Scott thanks Addams for her stand on behalf of African Americans at the Progressive Party Convention.

Praise Race

Emery Wellington Dye to Jane Addams, August 13, 1912

Dye congratulates Addams on promoting the ideas of social work and suggests that social workers should create their own newspapers to spread the word of their deeds.

Praise Social Work

Clara B. Spence to Jane Addams, August 11, 1912

Spence congratulates Addams for her nominating speech at the Progressive Party Convention and sends his wishes that she is now resting in Maine.

Children Politics Progressive Party Travels

Virgil V. McNitt to Oscar K. Davis, August 1912

McNitt asks Davis to try to persuade Addams to write a series of articles on the Progressive Party's platforms.

Journalism Requests

William Allen White to Jane Addams, July 19, 1912

White introduces George Matthew Adams to Addams, who hopes to publish a series of columns for women for his newspaper service.

Business Journalism

Anonymous (Justice) to Chicago Tribune Editor, December 9, 1911

The author sympathizes with the McNamara brothers, who bombed the Los Angeles Times building in California in October 1910, because they were insane but criticizes the Chicago newspapers for responding with bigotry against the Irish community.

Free Speech Poverty Race

Samuel Sidney McClure to Jane Addams, September 14, 1911

McClure asks Addams to ensure that reporters covering her speech to the Chicago Ethical Society only publish summaries, as he wishes to preserve copyright on her forthcoming article in McClures.

Lectures Requests

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, December 6, 1910

Addams writes Smith about newspaper reviews of her book, a trip to the dentist, and visits with family.

Family Visits

Algie Martin Simons to Jane Addams, August 18, 1910

Simons asks Addams to send him a photograph of herself to run alongside some of her writings that he will be publishing in his new socialist paper.

Friends Requests Socialism

Louise de Koven Bowen to Editor of Chicago Evening Post, March 6, 1909

Bowen responds to Minnie Fiske's letter promoting child labor in the theater.

Child Labor Education Theater

Thomas H. Briggs to Jane Addams, May 13, 1908

Briggs thanks Addams for her Charities and the Commons article and suggest that is deserves wider circulation.

Journalism Praise

Albion W. Small to the Editor of the Chicago Tribune, March 14, 1908

Small criticizes the Chicago Tribune's coverage of the Averbuch Incident, specifically discussing meetings between Jane Addams and others in John Maynard Harlan's office.

Anarchism Crime

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