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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1915
Page
5
The piece argues for a US based Anglo French credit loan to stabilize exchange and fund trade. It details exchange pressures, dollar francs, and pound rates, and argues loans would support American exports, provide credits for foreign buyers, and avoid harming neutral interests while highlighting security and neutrality considerations.
London reports 12 women mail carriers and Miss Etta Kirkland as Pennsylvania's sole girl rural mail carrier. Data show 11 twins per 1000 births, 45 percent of working women employed by other women, and a single woman per thousand aged sixty or more. California notes women in forest service atop Mount Plamath and a San Jose violin maker Grace Barstow. Massachusetts has 56,000 more women than men due to female-dominated textile work. A Japanese group of 15 women writers in Tokyo forms a women’s press club the first in the Far East. Grass widows barred from post office exams.
The article lists principal 1915 football rule changes: four officials with field judge as timekeeper, substitutions only at period starts, blocking with legs up is forbidden with a 15 yard penalty, centers cannot balk at snapping, running into the back or punter costs 15 yards plus possible disqualification, forward passes touched out of bounds count as incomplete, and a second eligible touch creating an incomplete pass.
The Interscholastic League chair Prof E D Shurter announces a new edition of the bulletin Woman Suffrage. It will be distributed to Texas school units to educate students on suffrage issues.
The 1912 13 University Interscholastic League debate topic asks if Texas women should have equal suffrage with men. A new bulletin is issued free to Texas citizens and 15 cents to outsiders, with eight to ten pages of general reference and seventy pages of arguments for and against, plus sources.
Railroads announce excursion and class rates to the Cotton Palace in Waco Texas with special trains. Class A sale runs Nov 5 to 21 at one and one fifth fare. Class B on Saturdays limited to return by Monday. Class C tiered round trip fares by mileage with a one day limit. Ask agents for details.
Waco hosts a Better Babies Contest organized by the McLennan County Medical Society at the Cotton Palace. Doctors will judge physical and mental development with a bronze medal and diplomas from the Woman's Home Companion for winners. Miss Roberta Wright handles applications and entrant entries.
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