Showing posts with label immigration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immigration. Show all posts
Monday, May 12, 2008

"Little Mother," 11, Is Pilot of Family

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1920 Four Children End Journey From Norway to North Dakota. MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota. — Unable to write or speak the English language, an 11-y...

U. S. Seems To Be Land of Husbands

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1920 FOREIGN GIRLS INVADING AMERICA BY WHOLESALE. Feminine Army Hailing From All Nations Waits at New York for Lovers. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug....
Thursday, May 1, 2008

Which One Is The American?

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1920 (Click the picture for larger version) In the above picture is shown a mother and two sons. The mother and one of her sons have just co...
Friday, April 18, 2008

No Use for $1,500,000 Fund

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1916 Original Bequest Was Made to Aid Needy Immigrants. ST. LOUIS, Missouri. — This city is trying to find some way in which it can make use...
Friday, April 4, 2008

Two Jobs Well Done

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By W. D. Boyce (W. D. Boyce's Talks) The year 1919 had many problems. The biggest was to get our boys back from across the sea, get them...
Sunday, February 24, 2008

New York Children Are Taught to Play

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1910 NEW YORK. — There are places where children have to be taught how to play. You might think that the youngsters wouldn't need instru...
Monday, June 11, 2007

Both the Native-Born and Immigrant Have Duties to America

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1920 By Senator W. S. Kenyon of Iowa The alien cannot Americanize himself. He can never become assimilated if he is shunted off into a shant...
Friday, April 27, 2007

She's Going To Be 100 — Gets to Bed Early, Doesn't Dance

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Syracuse, NY, 1918 Go to Bed Early, Don't Dance and Don't Worry and Live to Be 100 Mrs. Ann Land, Who Will Celebrate 100th Anniversa...
Sunday, April 8, 2007

The American Breed, Girls Smoking, Welsh Evangelist

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1906 The American Breed Professor Edward A. Ross, of the University of Nebraska, uses the term "the American breed" to describe wh...
Monday, March 26, 2007

Floating Nursery

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On a Steamer Which Arrived in New York From Old Country Yesterday. New York, April 21. - Of the 290 second cabin passengers who arrived he...