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1915 September
[continued from previous page] found it none too
warm. Old eye tooth started
to ache & kept going all night
Thurs. 30
Went to Dr Miller morning
and afternoon. Tooth ached
all day. Worked on Index
Walked home - Cold day
- no fire. Went to bed
early.
October
Fri. 1
To dentist. Mrs Holman
& Mrs McIntosh walked in.
Dinner with Pischels and
Editha at Hearth & went to
Peace Meeting at Auditorium
Rosika, Jacobs, La Fontaine
& McMillan [Macmillan] speakers.
Sat. 2
Dentist at 8.30 then all
day at League conference
on Milwaukee Ave. Home
at 9.30 & heard that police
had found lost pocket
book.
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line 20 - Peace meeting speakers ; likely Aletta Jacobs (Dutch), Rosika Schwimmer (Hungarian), Leonie La Fontaine (Belgium), Chrystal Macmillian (Scotland)
Jessie Chrystal MacMillan (1872-1937) - suffragist, peace activist, barrister and first female science graduate from University of Edinburgh.
At the end of April 1915, Aletta Jacobs invited members of Womens Peace Party to the International Congress of Women in The Hague. Chaired by Jane Addams, attendees included Schwimmer, La Fontaine & Macmillian. Addams, Jacobs, Macmillian, Schwimmer and American Emily Greene Balch toured Vienna, Rome, Paris & Berlin in 1915 to speak with Govt leaders to push for mediated settlement over war. La Fontaine founded Belgian League for the Rights of Women in 1890 & was sister of Henri La Fontaine, Belgian President of International Peace Bureau, who won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1913. (Jane Addams winner of NPP 1913 & Balch winner of NPP 1946)
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