Great Battle of Women Nearing the Close
Mrs. Robert La Follette opened her North Dakota suffrage campaign with a speech at Dickinson and planned further rallies in Fargo Wahpeton and Casselton. The campaign featured numerous organizers, debates and posters as North Dakota votes for women moves toward October events.
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North Dakota
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Supreme Court
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Indaho
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Minnesota
Equal Suffrage League
A Few Leading Questions On Votes for Women
A dialogue argues the case for women's suffrage by posing questions about laws and who makes them. It cites that men alone write laws, juries are men, and mothers lack voting rights, then notes limited states granting suffrage and high female participation where granted. It ends with reasons women seek the vote and the impact of voting power.
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Union
District of Columbia
Jehildren
Arizona Women Do Use Vote
The 1914 Phoenix Democratic platform congratulates Arizona women on gaining equal suffrage in 1912 and praises their registration and voting in primaries. It endorses national woman suffrage and pledges candidates to vote for it, noting anti-suffrage claims as unlikely in the state.
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Arizona
Democratic
Phoenix
Democratic Party
United States
Congress
Suffrage Movement Turns Gifts Into Campaign Cash
The suffrage effort converts gold and silver gifts into cash for nationwide campaigning across Ohio Nebraska Missouri Montana Nevada North and South Dakota. Leaders include Dr Anna Howard Shaw Jane Addams Desha Breckenridge Antoinette Funk Rosika Schwimmer Florence Maule Bjorkman Helen Todd Laura Gregg Cannon Elsie Vandergrist Jane Thompson coordinating literature and railroad transport.
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Ohio
Nebraska
Missouri
Montana
Nevada
North
South Dakota
Anna Howard Shaw
Association
Jane Addams
Desha Breckenridge
Kentucky
Antoinette Funk
Chicago
National Congressional Committee
Rosika Schwimmer
Budapest
Hungary
International Woman Suffrage Alliance
Plorence Maule Bjorkman
New York
Helen Todd
California
Laura Gregg | Cannon
Elsie Vandergrist
Colorado
Jane Thompson
National Association
Methods Of Anti's Are Queer
The campaign in seven states with pending suffrage amendments nears its end. Antis claim to appeal to all sides by promising different outcomes to temperance, liquor, workers, and taxpayers, portraying suffrage as skewed by a few wealthy women while insisting women should vote for various self serving reasons. The rhetoric aims to attract diverse audiences by presenting themselves as true friends of workers and taxpayers.
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Equal Rights
X Ray Turns On Opposition to Women Suffrage
An editorial exposes how opponents claim women will vote socialist or Catholic while revealing the author Edgar Howard’s shift from anti suffrage to support. He notes campaign falsehoods and urges readers to fund the suffrage effort, naming state presidents and activists across multiple states. The piece critiques corporate influence behind anti suffrage sentiment.
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Edgar Howard
Nebraska
Howard
Uutch City
Corporation
Nebraka
Women at Work and Rights Movements Worldwide
The piece notes 12 women in France’s army corps and 10 000 in Philadelphia, with Japanese empress bandaging for Red Cross nurses. It cites Paris dressmakers making hospital garments and Italian women earning 4 to 5 cents an hour in metal work. Over 10 000 women own stock in the New York New Haven Hartford railroad and U S women voters pursue rights in Kansas. It also lists California reforms under women with ballots, including pay raises for women clerks, eight hour laws, juvenile court improvements, pensions for long serving teachers, and raising the age of consent to 18.
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France
Philadelphia
Red Cross
Paris
New York, New Haven
Hartford
United States
Kansas
Iceland Grants Parliamentary Suffrage to Women Over Forty
The Icelandic Althing passed a reform granting women over 40 the same rights as men over 25, with gradual lowering of the age for female electors. The bill passed unanimously in the upper house and faced one vote against in the lower house. Danish king’s sanction will finalize the law. This follows earlier municipal suffrage and marks progress in partial suffrage.
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United States
Iceland
Denmark
Tceland
Nevada boys hailed as fathers of men in vote for women
Dr Anna Howard Shaw visiting Virginia City with Harriet Dean listens as 11 year old James Tangan boasts of whistling skill and a playful contest is proposed to decide if women should vote in the November 3 election. The moment captures community tone and activist mood in a sparsely reported tale.
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Nevada
Anna Howard Shaw
F. D. Langan
Virginia City
James Tangan
Harriet Dean
Dr. Shaw
Shaw
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