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United Charities and the Dallas Day Nursery, 1900

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United Charities and the Dallas Day Nursery, 1900

Description

This is an article featured in a Dallas News section of the Huntsville Weekly Democrat on September 19, 1900. According to the article, Dallas Mill had plans to establish a day nursery on the W.H. Moore property with the help of United Charity. United Charities was a group of women who lobbied the Huntsville city council to better the conditions in Huntsville's cotton mill villages. The day nursery was expected to solve the problem of child labor in the mill. Mrs. Anna B. Robertson and Mrs. Alberta C. Taylor visited the Dallas Mill in Nashville to research the day nursery there. Mrs. Robertson was to be the matron of the nursery. The article also announces a dormitory for homeless girls and a school to be built on the same W.H. Moore property.

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September 19, 1900

Source

"Day Nursery at Dallas." Huntsville Weekly Democrat, September 19, 1900. Retrieved from Newspapers.com.

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Huntsville weekly Democrat, “United Charities and the Dallas Day Nursery, 1900,” UAH Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, accessed July 17, 2025, http://libarchstor2.uah.edu/digitalcollections/items/show/14870.

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