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Blake asks Addams for support in promoting gun control.

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Addams presents her argument on the value of public schools to a democracy.

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Kellogg tells Addams about a crime study by William Bolitho that was funded by Anita Blaine.

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Addams discusses the impact of prohibition on urban communities and notes a gradual increase in availability of alcohol due to home-based distilling. Addams gave this talk to the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek Social Workers' Clubs at the Y.W.C.A. building.

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Crooks writes to the Gazette editor defending efforts to commute the sentence of Sacco and Vanzetti.

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Kellogg asks Addams to add her name to a request to get a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti.

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Stetson asks Addams to protest the Sacco and Vanzetti execution.

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Lovett asks Addams to join a group seeking to have the Sacco and Vanzetti case files opened.

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Addams asks Hoover for clemency for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti as a means of foreign-born Americans

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News report of altercation between young men and women in Wauwatosa.

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Haffner asks Addams for data about the increase in crime and its relation to national origin.

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Grece tells Addams that her speech failed to take into account Christian morality.

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Cotterell tells Addams about his view on crime.

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Jackson tells Addams his ideas about the cause of crime, blaming in part the message in David Harum, an 1896 novel by Edward Noyes Westcott.

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News report of a police shooting during a car theft that killed the accused.

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Newspaper describes the death of victim of a police shooting.

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Newspaper story of an assault on Carrie Beggs.

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Merrill asks Ranck to review Addams's speech on crime before it is published in the Hearst newspapers.

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News coverage of a death related to tainted alcohol.

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Newspaper story of a young girl being brutally attacked by two men she was with. Relates to the rise in crime in America during the Prohibition Era.

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Article discusses the creation of an American Crime Study Commission to investigate the causes and prevention of crime.

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Addams discusses the increasing rate of juvenile crime and the efforts to combat it at a meeting of the American Crime Study Commission.

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An editorial criticizes Jane Addams for wanting to disarm policemen.

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Addams, as told to the Newspaper Enterprise Association, discusses the murder of unwed mother Rosa Stoble and argues for love and sympathy rather than punishment and stigma. This article was syndicated and published in many newspapers in March and April.

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The News summarizes Addams comments about the impact of Prohibition in the Hull-House neighborhood.

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News repors an assault on a woman by two men in Wisconsin.

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News reports a teenage girl's escape from an assault.

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Addams discusses the importance of social work to the health of a community in an address to the National Federation of Settlements in Cleveland.

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Addams discusses the value of social work at a mass meeting held at the National Conference of Social Work in Cleveland.

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Addams tells a story of a sixteen year-old bootlegger as part of a speech about juvenile delinquency.

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Grimes discusses problems with the justice system that result in prisoners returning to crime.

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Mary Field reports on her interview of Addams with regard to the criminal case against Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb for the murder of fourteen year old Bobby Franks in Chicago. Other comments were made by Carl Sandburg and Elllsworth Faris.

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Hart tells the ACLU that the prisoners that they asked to be released have refused parole until other prisoners were freed.

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Winsor thanks Addams for a peace pin, discusses her recent address and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom invitation letter.

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Blackwell asks Addams to help efforts to aid Soghomon Tehlirian, the assassin of Turkish leader Mehmet Talaat.

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Terrell tells Addams that she cannot sign a petition calling for the removal of African-American soldiers from Germany on accusations of abuse of women. Terrell believes that it is race prejudice.

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Ernst tells Addams that she thinks the French occupation of the Rhine should not be stopped and that American women should resist the urge to object.

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Also known as Lord Mayor of Cork

A Guardian clipping reports that sixty men were sentenced to ten years imprisonment for connection to the Caherguillamore shootings and that the Lord Mayor of Cork testified in Washington.

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Stahl criticizes Addams for her opposititon to capital punishment.

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Knox takes issues with Addams's opposition to capital punishment, offering examples of English justice.

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Rich disputes Addams's views on capital punishment, claiming that sentimental opposition results in more crime.

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The author asks Addams to try to stop Nicholas Viana's execution.

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The Tribune praises Governor Lowden's decision to allow Nicholas Viana to be executed and calls Addams's appeal sentimental.

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Addams defends her views on capital punishment, replying to a critical editorial.

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Addams defends her views against capital punishment for minors.

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Addams argues against the death penalty for Nicholas Viana because he is a minor.

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Alvee tells Addams that the State Department cannot interview in John Reed's arrest save to assure he has a fair trial.

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An article that criticizes the imprisonment of Charlotte Whitney on the grounds of free speech.

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Also known as To all who still feel like humans, ca. March 1920

Misař describes political turmoil and oppression against Socialists and Jews in Hungary.

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Older asks Addams for a statement protesting Anita Whitney's sentence for the San Francisco Call.

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