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TELEPHONE MONROE 825
[[image - blurry words TRADES [[?]] UNION]]236

1437 WEST OHIO STREET
CHICAGO
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Friday evening and all day and evening Saturday the Chicago girls held a City Conference to plan out the work for the winter.  It was really a stunning group and sixty-five delegates representing forty-eight different trades attended the sessions and worked on their committees with remarkable interest, concentration and devotion.  It was a splendid young convention and brought out a number of fine local girls with whom we had not tied up before.  Among the committees at work was a Citizenship Committee.  In its report it called the attention of the delegates to the fact that it has decided that women may vote for the County Commissioners and that we have two League members running for that position.  They are Miss McDowell and Miss Vittum.  Of course the girls are devoted to Mary McDowell and they are eager as they can be to do everything that is possible to see that she gets elected.  Any number of the girls offered their services to work to that end.  We just must elect her!
I also had a very lovely letter from Tante Meta.

Much^[[,]] much love,
[[signed]] ^[[Gretchen.]] [[/signed]]