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Cotterell tells Addams about his view on crime.

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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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Newspaper story of an assault on Carrie Beggs.

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Addams explores the lack of opportunities, education and home life that leads young women into trouble.

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

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

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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 unknown writer criticizes Addams's support of Theodore Roosevelt, partly because Roosevelt, as governor of New York, refused to commute the death sentence of Martha M. Place in 1899.

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

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Addams argues for the right to petition in regard to the Fred Guelzow murder case and the death sentences of the four defendants. She is particularly adamant on behalf of the minor defendant.

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Addams discusses the formation of the Progressive Party and its ideals, starting with children's needs. She notes that the party supports efforts to curb child labor, and to encourage education. This is one of a series of articles she prepared for the Central Press Association as part of the Progressive Party campaign in 1912.

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Addams described the Progressive Party's support for the dependents of prisoners, by allowing wages they earn in prison to be sent to their families. It also supports calls for social insurance that would protect the poor in case of injury or old age. This is one of a series of articles prepared for the Central Press Association as part of the Progressive Party campaign in 1912.

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An article criticizing Senator Boies Penrose and Theodore Roosevelt as corrupt.

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Addams explains how educational background, economic situations, and family predicaments have an impact on juvenile crime; and she argues for special treatment of the "juvenile adult." The article was published in October 1913.

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Addams described the Progressive Party's support for the dependents of prisoners, by allowing wages they earn in prison to be sent to their families. It also supports calls for social insurance that would protect the poor in case of injury or old age.

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Addams describes how boyish exuberance is stunted if there are no opportunities for play.

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Addams prepared some cases of poverty that she did not use on the Devil Baby at Hull-House article.

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A published version of Addams' speech to the Congress of Men and the Religion Forward Movement chastises the church for rejection aid to "fallen" women and asks for a return to the teachings of Jesus, who opened his heart to all sinners. The speech was also published in Messages of the Men and Religion Movement.

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Addams' speech to the Congress of Men and the Religion Forward Movement chastises the church for rejecting aid to "fallen" women. She calls for a return to the teachings of Jesus, who opened his heart to all sinners. The speech was later published in Messages of the Men and Religion Movement and in Vigilance.

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Addams' speech to the Congress of Men and the Religion Forward Movement chastises the church for rejection aid to "fallen" women and asks for a return to the teachings of Jesus, who opened his heart to all sinners. The speech was also published in Vigilance.

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A reprint of Addams' speech to the Congress of Men and the Religion Forward Movement chastises the church for rejection aid to "fallen" women and asks for a return to the teachings of Jesus, who opened his heart to all sinners.

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Addams discusses the association in the public eye between settlements and immigrants and when immigrants are involved in high profile crimes, settlements are accused of supporting anarchism. Addams defends the role of the settlement as the bridge between immigrant communities and the American public, holding that it does not change in times of crisis.

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

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Addams chastises newspapers for glamorizing the story of Harry Thaw, an heir to a railroad fortune who killed his wife's lover.

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Addams protests the execution by hanging in front of 200 prisoners as savage.

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Newspaper story about the latest in the disappearance of Jeanne DeKay contains a short statement about the case by Addams.

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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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For a pamphlet published by the Peace Association of Friends, Addams argues against having rifle practice in public schools.

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Newspaper report of an Addams' statement about the causes of violent labor actions being antiquated laws.

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Addams discusses unwelcome letters written to her and her efforts to have them stopped.

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Addams opposes citizens carrying concealed weapons.

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

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Addams tells the press that the woman pretending to be the missing DeKay is an adventuress.

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Addams doubts that a girl held in the disappearance of Jeanne DeKay is the heiress.

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Addams discusses the juvenile crime rate in Chicago.

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Newspaper report of Addams' speech on the need for entertainments among the poor in Chicago. The speech was given for the Sunday Evening Club.

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McClure explains the publication of an article by William J. Burns in McClure's Magazine about the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing case to Addams, because it caused her some embarrassment.

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

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

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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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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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News coverage of a death related to tainted alcohol.

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

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The American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology Committee on Crime and Immigration, which includes Jane Addams, invites Speranza to be its chairman.

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Addams discusses the value of playgrounds for urban children, emphasizing the situation for youth in London.

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An editorial criticizes Jane Addams for wanting to disarm policemen.

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