Helen Carl (1892 - 1975)

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1935 Lockwood High School, 1935

Oscar Ellsworth Carl

Simmons girls 1937

Ethel Adra Simmons Carl

Ethel Adra Simmons Carl

Carl Children

Wallace Carl

Petty's Chapel School, 1915

My sister's and mother at Papa's funeral

The Family of Charles Christian Carl and His Wife, Susan Wertz

John Wilson Carl (1885-1969) and His Wood Saw in Dade County, Missouri

The Archway to the Entrance of the Pennsboro Cemetery, Pennsboro, Dade Co, Missouri

The Tombstone of David Arthur Carl (1852-1941) and His Wife, Mary B. (Williams) (1861-1942) in Dade Co, MO

The Tombstones of David A. and Mary (Williams) Carl and Their Grandson, Arthur L. Carl

The Tombstone of Arthur L. Carl, 1916-1999, in Pennsboro, Dade Co, Missouri

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In 1892, in the year that Helen Carl was born, on October 12th, the "Pledge of Allegiance" was first recited in unison by students in U.S. public schools. Composed the previous August by Francis Bellamy, it was to be recited in 15 seconds and originally read: "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." "Under God" was added in the 1950's.

In 1900, when she was merely 8 years old, a massive hurricane, known as the Great Galveston hurricane, hit Galveston Texas. Winds hit up to 145 miles an hour (category 4) and it remains the single most deadly event in U.S. history. Between 6,000 and 12,000 died (most estimates are around 8,000 dead). The population of Galveston at the time was about 36,000 people in 1900.

In 1916, when she was 24 years old, visiting nurse Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. at 46 Amboy St. in Brooklyn New York. Ten days after the clinic opened, Sanger was arrested for "violating laws against giving out birth control information" which was defined as obscenity. The clinic was not handing out birth control - just information about sex and birth control methods. (The Comstock law categorized information about abortion, family planning, and contraception as “obscene”.) The clinics and organizations that Sanger established later evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

In 1946, she was 54 years old when pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock's book "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" was published. It sold half a million copies in the first six months. Aside from the Bible, it became the best selling book of the 20th century. A generation of Baby Boomers were raised by the advice of Dr. Spock.

In 1975, in the year of Helen Carl's passing, on September 5th, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme tried to assassinate President Ford in Sacramento, California. She failed when her gun wouldn't fire. President Ford escaped a second assassination attempt 17 days later on September 22 when Sarah Jane Moore tried to shoot him in San Francisco. A bystander saw her raise her arm, grabbed it, and the shot went wild.