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Women Recall Indignities Against Suffrage Parade
A Senate committee heard women recall insufficient police protection during the Washington suffrage pageant last Monday. Witnesses including Julia Lathrop and Harriet Taylor Upton described crowds surging and jeering, with few officers present and few mounted patrols until cavalry arrived.
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George ¥. Bowerman
Carnegie Library of Washington
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Children's Bureau
Department of Commerce and Labor
Harriet Taylor Upton
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Ohio
Congress
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