Woman's University Opens Campaign for Votes in 1915
A new Woman's University of New York State opens with a three year course aimed at preparing women for political life. The diploma is ballot and commencement is the first Tuesday in November 1915. Freshman class reportedly 70,000, the largest in American history, with a campaign motto Victory 1915.
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New York State
Woman's University of New York State
James Lees Laidlaw
Woman's University
East Thirty-fourth Street
New York City
Victory
Woman Suffrage Party
Fifth Avenue
New York
Cy Miller
Woman Food Expert Heads Pure Food Lab in Philadelphia
Dr. Mary E. Pennington chief of the government food research laboratory in Philadelphia earns $3,000 yearly and leads a team of fifteen assistants. She is among the highest salaried women in civil service and is the sole woman in charge of a pure food investigation lab. She is renowned for expertise on eggs and poultry and aims to improve preservation methods.
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Mary E. Pennington
Philadelphia
English Woman Admitted to Dental Surgery Honor
For the first time in English history a woman has been admitted by the Royal College of Surgeons in near licentifted dental surgery. Fannie Pain is the young girl who has been thus honored.
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Royal College of Surgeons
Sly Fannie Pain
Affinity pair are placed in chains in Carrolton
In Carrolton Illinois 63 year old merchant William Burley and Mrs Walter Evans the wife of another man were paraded through main street chained to Sheriff Morrow after a ten day chase across two states. Evans had suspected nothing of the missing $500 from the sale of a house and the couple were eventually found in Lynn Missouri. Evans visited his wife in jail and they hugged before Mrs Evans was released. Burley remains in jail under $500 bond for the September grand jury.
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Carrolton
William Burley
Walter Evans
Green County
Burley
Sheriff Morrow
Evans
Morrow
Lynn
Stranded California Miner With 22000 In Checks Wanders Chicago
William H. Herndon, 73, of Alameda, Calif., carrying more than 22 thousand dollars in checks and five bank books, wandered incoherently through Chicago streets for hours. Police found him at Park Row station and took him to the detention hospital after identifying him from letters in his pockets. He also had over 100 dollars in cash and deposits totaling over eight thousand dollars. He appeared dazed and unable to answer questions.
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Chicago
William H. Herndon
Alameda
Cal
Park Row
O'Connell
Herndon
Dog’s Death Sentence Commuted to Life Behind Wire
In Chicago a neighborly protest from children who loved the dog named Jack saved him from execution. The canine had bitten a small boy, but Judge Williams commuted the death sentence to life behind a wire fence.
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Chicago
Fox
Williams
Gored to Death Near Elliotville in N Y
The mangled body of Thomas Wheeler aged fifty a former veterinarian was found in a pasture he had been gored to death by a bull. Local authorities investigate the incident.
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Elliotville
N. Y
Thomas Wheeler
The Smooth Swindler and the Salt Water Gold Scam
The long tale recounts Jernegan and Fisher who vowed to extract gold from sea water using a mercury box off Narragansett Bay. A staged midnight experiment yielded $14 in gold, sparking a fraudulent scheme and later flight to Europe. Despite persistent claims, commercial extraction remains impossible.
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Prescott J Jernegan
Europe
Jernegan
C. E. Fisher
New York
Fisher
New England
Narragansett Bay
Providence
Jer. Nhegan
Dayligh Jernegan
Tim
Preas
Electric Bitters touted as stomach and kidney cure
Pains in the stomach signal liver or kidneys out of order, with neglect risking drops, kidney trouble, diabetes, or Bright's Disease. Electris Bitters praised by H. T. Alston of Raleigh for kidney and liver relief after suffering severe pain. A few bottles priced 50 cents to 1 are sold by Irvin & Willard's.
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H. T. Alston
Releigh
N. C
Irvin &. ‘Willard’s
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James Bernard Fagan
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Fountain
Daniel C. Reed
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Herman W. Briggs
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My Barn
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State Line
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