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Watterson Speech Against Women's Suffrage Reported From Kentucky
The Kentucky editor Henry Watterson delivered an address to female high school graduates in Lewisville. He argued against suffrage, urging women to focus on moral distinctions, domestic roles, and gradual progress, while cautioning about indulgence in public power. The piece also includes a secondary dispatch from the Richmond and Danville Register debating railroad gauge expansion and Danville's potential role as a coal hub, plus related notices.
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Lewisville
Henry Watterson
Qoar For Journal
Bhutan
Watterson
Richmond and
Danville
Hellville
New River Road
Revson
New River
Recviver
United States Supreme Court
Richmond
Bristol
Virginia
North Carolina
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad
Asheville
N. C
Norfolk and Western
East
Tennessee
Georgia
James B. Pace
Winston
Wilkesboro
Cascade
Leaksville
Martinsville
Roanoke
Southern
Stuart
Weater
Daneville
Sperial
CoLompra
Avenink
David Risley
Georgetown
Court of Massachusetts
Massachusetts and Southern Construction Company
Boston
Mass
Three C's Railroad
Three C's
RE. A. Johnson
Saugus
Washington
Col. Johnson
RE. Howard
Risley
Howard
Ringley
Gen
B. F. Butler
D. C. Trescott
Beaton
Plains
Benjamin Johnson
E. Howard
Charles Whittier
Edwin P. Metealf
Hiram P. Blaisdell
MM. Risley
Columbia Register, Inc
Charleston
Bostos
Supreme Court
D. C
J. F. Hart
Yorkville
Register
Anbgorm Ang Tennesse
Jere Baxter
Varanda
Niagara Palle
Wheel Potter
Haute
Sin
Gates
Godkin
Talintou