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Newspaper
Jackson Sentinel
Location
Maquoketa, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1920
Page
12
Andrew describes readers' hunger for peaceful escape amid strikes and war as the 1920 Chautauqua Program unfolds with music drama and oratory. The event promises grand opera light opera comedy and vivid stage effects. A magic act Ching Ling Foo and a farce by Harrington Bennett add humor and spectacle for multiple days.
A fragmented item notes a four man vocal quartet called FIPTE DAY Lyric blending classic to Ragtime and social avenues post performance. It also references the suffrage movement with Democratic and Republican lines, state ratifications, and the formation of the League of Women Voters after a long campaign. An odd wedding tale in the suburbs of Ps describes a ceremony by the Seine followed by a bathing costume breakfast. A French surgeon claims massaging ears restores hearing in many deaf patients.
New York reports leaders of the women’s suffrage movement rejoicing over the amendment’s adoption. Carrie Chapman Catt notes mothers began the fight and pledge loyalty to the cause, recalling the 51-year effort of the National American Woman Suffrage Association to secure federal suffrage through sustained lobbying in Washington across twenty-two Congresses.
A historical railway catalog notes numerous stations within a six mile radius of St Poole cathedral and within twenty miles of central London. It details a dense network of lines and interconnections, highlighting the close proximity of rail hubs and the rapid spread of rail travel across the region.
Fragmentary note cites a lyric reverie on grandeur and serenity in the vast world. Mentions contemplation and beauty, with a quotation invoking the subject’s exalted view of life. No person or place clearly identified in the legible text.
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