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The Conference proposes a series of resolutions calling for revision of the peace terms of World War I.

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Addams discusses the need to understand the poor in order to solve the problems of poverty.

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Addams tells Starr about her travels and impression of Indian women.

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Vernon reports on food shortages, inflation, and wage stagnation in Vienna.

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Addams argues that the League of Nations could increase its popularity by taking on European relief efforts.

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Alice Hamilton writes to her family of her travels with Jane Addams in France through devastated areas affected by World War I.

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Jane Addams informs President Wilson that the international congress of women urges the the powers of the Peace Congress to follow the steps to ensure peace.

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Addams discusses the problems that charity workers face when they bring middle-class assumptions about the poor to their efforts to practically help them.

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Tunnicliff and Jahn call an emergency meeting to help ration diminished coal supplies throughout Chicago.

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Women argue against setting a weekly salary of $2,50 because it was not sufficient to health and well-being.

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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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Addams tells her experiences helping illiterate women to vote.

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Addams, discussing the main reasons for why child labor is wrong, how it came to be, and who can be blamed for it.

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Addams questions the process of how pension funds are being distributed to needing families and how it needs to be handled better while criticizing the city of Chicago's government for not doing enough to help the poor.

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Addams questions the process of how pension funds are being distributed to needing families and how it needs to be handled better while criticizing the city of Chicago's government for not doing enough to help the poor.

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Addams argues that it is the responsibility of a democracy to care about the social needs of its citizens.

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Newspaper report of Addams' speech at the conference of Charities and Correction in St. Louis discussing state of charitable work.

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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.