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THE ALPHA SUFFRAGE CLUB TO GIVE A BANQUET.The Alpha Suffrage Club ia an organisation of Colored women that ia not only studying political and civic question* for themselves, but they are making a strong effort to get hold of every Colored woman in the city of Chicago. Thia club waa organised laat January, and ha* done some notable work in the first year of its existence. We have one hundred members and taking in new ones every day. it waa this club which sent me to Washington City last March to represent it in the suffrage parade. It waa this club which has held the only suffrage meeting for the benefit of the women in the bridewell, since the ballot waa granted to the women of Illinois. It was this club which had thirty-five women in the automobile suffrage parade July 1st laat. Thia number was gotten together with only two days notice.And now thia club will celebrate its first year of existence by an annual dinner, at the Progressive Club, 19 W. Jackson Blvd., next Wednesday evening, November 19th. Plates are $1.00 each. Not only will there be splendid ad dr eases by Mias Jane Addtms, Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, Mrs. Virginia Brooks-Wash bume, Mrs. Antoinette Funk, Mrs. L. S. Bishop and other prominent suffrage workers, but Mrs. Nina T. • Curtis, assistant to County Judge Owens, will make the chief address and show every woman present how to use the voting machine which is installed in the beautiful room at the Progressive Club.Our tickets are selling fast. Our number ia limited- We want every Negro woman in the city of Chicago who is interested in the ballot to be present, and we are enlisting your aid in reaching them. Everybody who wishes to be present most secure tickets by November 16th. Tickets can be bad of Mm L. T. Curtis, at the Beading Boom of the Negro Fellowship League, 3005 State St, any hour of the day between 9 and 5 o'clock.Gratefully yours,Ida B. Wells Barnett.
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Salt Lake City Broad Ax
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Sat, Nov 15, 1913
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