Butte Clubwomen Lead California Parly Law Contest Winner
Mrs E B Weirick a leader in Montana civic work has helped Butte five clubwomen expand reform efforts. They push day nurseries for immigrant Americanization and plan film reforms for children while pressing abolition of the contract system in jails and hospitals. Homer club studies parliamentary law after D M Trotter's California prize win.
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California
Montana
Butte
E. B. Werrick
State Board of Charities and Reform
Children’s Home Finding Society
State Society For the Prevention and Treatment
Ant
Woman’s
Arts and Crafts
Atlas
Shakespeare
Homer
Homer Club
D. M. Trotter
National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union backs equal rights
In Indianapolis the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union declared for equal political rights for men and women. The convention also favored living wages and equal pay for equal services, and urged constitutional prohibition at state and national levels.
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National Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Indianapolis
Rankin Bars Photographers From Home Portraits
Jeannette Rankin the first woman elected to Congress refuses to be photographed. She will not leave her house while photographers are present. The block where she lives is watched by camera crews and state Republicans warned publicity could be objectionable leading to the ban on newspaper stills and film.
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Orton Brothers
Montana
Piano House
Orton Brothers’ Music House
Great Falls
Chickering, Kimball, Kranich and Bach
Hallet & Davis
J. & C. Fischer
Vose & Sons
Story & Clark
Hampton
Apollo
Wurlitizer
Jeannette Rankin
Congress
Miss Rankin
Women Vote in Chicago Amid Prohibition Trends
In eight of eleven states where women vote are going dry including Utah. Illinois counts women’s votes separately. Chicago voters show 130,051 for Wilson and 185,150 for Hughes. Women accounted for over 37 percent of Chicago’s presidential vote.
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Utah
Chicago
Illinois
Wilson
Hughes
Last Day Registration Denies Five Women Vote Rights
On the final day of registration in Des Moines Iowa five women formerly residents of suffrage states were denied voting as citizens of Ohio. The incident raises questions about universal suffrage and absurdity of losing citizenship rights upon moving states.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Ohio
Montana
Women voters in Montana split between parties
The New York World reports Montana women divided fairly between parties yet strongly backed women candidates and prohibition during the election.
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The
New York World
Montana
Prohibition
Women Candidates Largely Succeed In Kansas Elections
The Kansas vote shows strong gains for women candidates with 151 elected out of 255 seeking offices in 92 of 105 counties. Republican women elected outnumber Democrats. county superintendents, registrars of deeds and clerks fill early wins as the women push for ballot representation.
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Kansas
The Piano at Red's Saloon in La Vaca Town
A rugged tale of an old piano at Red's Saloon where a veteran player sustains nightly tunes. The scene shifts from card room and bar clash to memories of mothers and lost loves as a haunting melody lingers. A separate fragment mentions a man named Linker and a crude epitaph on his slab with a quip about brains.
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Orton Brothers’ Music House
Third St. No
Rainbow Hotel
Great Falls
Red
la Vaca
Red’s
Linker
Community Singing At Butte Opens With 200 Participants
Butte hosts a community singing opening in the high school auditorium with about 200 participants. Miss Minerva Bennett, music instructor, expresses strong satisfaction with the new program. Songs include Coming Thro the Rye Auld Lang Syne Sweet and Low Blow Ye Winds Heigh Ho and Love's Old Sweet Song sung by a mixed audience, reflecting unity and mutual goodwill.
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Butte
Minerva Bennett
War on Cupid Moves in Japan Women’s Equal Rights Pledge
An organization of about 100000 Japanese women vows not to marry unless husbands back a campaign for equal treatment and better economic status. The piece ends with a dad’s remark about red makeup and a daughter’s retort about nature and color.
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Japan
Nelson hires surgeons to remodel his damaged face
Battling Nelson says he has hired specialists to remodel his face after past cosmetic attempts by Jimmy Britt Ad Wolgast and Joe Gans left him looking less like the famed Adonis. He adds he hopes to marry if the appearance is improved so the Fords do not shy at it.
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Nelson
Jimmy Britt
Ad Wolgast
Joe Gans
Adonis
Fords
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Weirick
EH. B. Weirick
Orton Bros
Byy
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Delon
Victor Catalog
Sue Af Betis Brother
Aes
Great Falls, Mont
Jeannette
Pauline
Women’s Journal and Suffrage Organ
Pauline Revere
United States Army
Alice Duer Miller
Maud
Whitefish
Symons
Photos
Gibson
1St Ave
4Th St
Cupid
Service To
Yellowstone
Billings Montana
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