Liberty Kitchen to Close

From The Indianapolis Star, Friday, June 27, 1919: The Liberty Kitchen, 106 N. Delaware, will close Monday concluding another chapter in Indiana’s war history. The Marion County Council of Defense established the Liberty Kitchen almost a year ago to provide free information on canning, poultry, child nutrition, garden topics, and other problems of home economics and demonstrations on the best methods for preparing foods. Miss Florence Boston, who has charge of the office, has been widely commended for her work. She began home demonstration work in 1917 in schools, churches, and other places where women gathered and for several months had a demonstration kitchen in connection with the food exchange on North Pennsylvania St before the Liberty Kitchen opened. A daily column in the Star, “Liberty Kitchen News,” by Agnes McCulloch Hanna provided breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus.

“Liberty Kitchen to Close,” The Indianapolis Star, 27 June 1919, p. 1:2

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Vacation Privileges Offered at Library

From The Indianapolis News, Thursday, June 26, 1919: Special vacation reading privileges are being offered by the Central Library in lending books to children this summer. As many as six books may be taken on one card, providing for every book of fiction there must be a book of nonfiction. This is to encourage children in the reading of other than “just stories.” Books must be kept at least two weeks, and all returned at the same time. Books on the special vacation reading lists for children suggest books that not only bring pleasure, but count for good literature, include Men of Iron, stories of chivalry; Over the Top, European War reading;Boys of ’76, Revolutionary War reading; Boys of ’61, Civil War reading; Foreign Children; Fairy Tales and Fables for Little Folk; Rainy Day Friends for Little Folk.

“Vacation Privileges Offered at Library,” The Indianapolis News, 26 June 1919, p. 29:4

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Charge Spite in Transfer of Teaching Staff

From The Indianapolis Star, Tuesday, June 17, 1919: Irvington citizens held a mass meeting last night in the School No. 57 auditorium protesting the Indianapolis school board’s wholesale transfer of teachers from the Irvington School. Matters quickly came to fever heat between those supporting the transfers led by Mrs. Harriet (Edward) Hecker, president of the Parent-Teacher Club of Irvington, and those opposing the transfers. Artist William Forsyth said the transfers were “petty spite” by former principal Lydia Blaich whom he characterized as a “Prussian unter-officer…attempting to make little obedient boches out of our children.” Charles Cross speaking for Miss Blaich said Irvington schools needed discipline, while Grace Julian Clarke accused her of being “a martinet who had been inflicting Prussianism on Irvington for years.” A delegation led by Demarchus Brown will later meet with the school board about the transfers.

“Charge Spite in Transfer of Teaching Staff,” The Indianapolis Star, 17 June 1919, p. 1:1

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