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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1920
Page
15
Clyde Terrill of Oshkosh devised a method to produce wild rice seed and ship iced seeds to lake landowners to attract ducks. By preserving seeds on ice and planting in a submarine garden he built a business worth thousands yearly through natural science and innovation.
To the Editor of the Post a citizen asks whether women would outnumber men if all vote and cites 26 883 566 women and 29 577 690 men eligible. The piece also clarifies steel versus cast iron, silver value in a dollar, Canadian travel without passport, and lists states ratifying the woman suffrage amendment up to 1920 with dates.
In Meadowville a Ladies of the Parsonage Repair Fund stage an unusual fundraiser. Peace Arkwright leads a veiled beauty contest where male townsmen pay five dollars for a kiss license. Masks and wigs by Shelbyville boys hide identities and raise funds to repair the parsonage while the crowd roars at the masquerade.
Readers respond to the suffrage era question of whether women should renounce customs that mark them as inferior. Letters from ANOTHER WOMAN VOTER AND MOTHER OF FIVE VERNA A. H. LA JUSTICE and "ARLINGTON" argue for equal respect, shared duties, and that voting does not erase gender differences or manners.
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