Washington's Long Fight For Woman Suffrage in History
The article traces the fight for ratification of the 19th Amendment from 1919 to its eventual passage, naming key states, governors, and judges. It notes Ohio's ratification upheld by the Supreme Court, Tennessee's late session, and Washington's swift ratification. It profiles Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Alice Paul, detailing early organizing bodies, splits, and the creation of the League of Women Voters in 1920.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
United States Supreme Court
Connecticut
Vermont
Florida
Tennessee
North Carolina
Thomas W. Bickett
Washington
Delaware
Louisiana
Ohio
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Yadc
Abe
Adams
Mass
Miss Anthony
Senate
Sargent
California
Congress
National American Woman Suffrage Association
National Woman's Party
Alice Paul
White House
Miss Paul
Suffragists Thank Cox and Harding Victory Telegrams Reach Senators
Washington reports Tennessee completed ratification of women suffrage. Alice Paul telegrams Cox and Harding praise their campaigns and bipartisan support. Messages also credit Governor Roberts and Secretary Daniels for work in Tennessee and North Carolina. Wheeler of the anti saloon league offered no statement on enforcement.
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Washington
Tennessie
Alice Paul
Cox
National Woman's Party
Harding
Tennessee
Roberts
Daniels
North Carolina
Roberta of
Tentemane
Tennesse
Forest fires rage across Pacific states crippling towns
Northern California and the Pacific Northwest face severe forest fires. In Washington a blaze near Enum has endangered bridges and a main railroad line. Firefighters, over three dozen men, struggle against Lassen and Trinity fires as windy conditions hinder containment. Weaverville and Redding marshal volunteers and supplies. In Montana Pend Oreille county also evacuates as hundreds fight large blazes.
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San Francisco
Cal
California
Pacife
Montana
Washington
Enum
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Pauli
Lassen
Trinity National
Weaverville
Redding
Flathead National Forest
Pend
Orielle County
Wash
Otto Stifel Ends His Life Over Financial Jam
Otto Stifel, 58, Republican nominee for Congress from Missouri’s Eleventh District, killed himself at his country home near Valley Park due to financial troubles. Notes left by Stifel criticized his debts and outlined his financial descent, addressed to relatives and a local caretaker, with one note titled for the public and creditors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
F. Stifel
Valley Park
Louisa County
Stifel
Edwin
Paul Conrades
Conrades
Will Docter
Edward Poubhel
Bufel
Post Office Row Brings Conciliator to St Louis
The Labor Department sent Oscar Flaherty to St Louis as conciliator after a complaint that Postmaster Selph threatened to discharge 300 postal workers who elected Carl Freeman union president. The move followed a White House request and letters from national postal unions urging intervention. Nelson was dispatched as the interim conciliator replacing Mahaney.
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Post Office
ST. Louis
Department of Labor
Washington
Oscar FL Nels
Chicago
St. Lews
Selph
Carl P. Freeman
White House
Wilson
Joseph P. Tumulty
Thomas F. Fisherty
National Federation of Post Office Clerks
Labor Department
Flaherty
Hurlexon
Post Office Department
TK Mahary
Mahaney
Nelson
Packers Must Sell Yards By August 31
Packers must dispose of their interests in East St. Louis stockyards and others by August 31 under the dissolution terms agreed with the Attorney General. A conference between Packers and the Justice Department produced a plan of dissolution, kept secret to avoid embarrassment, with execution delayed to allow careful consideration.
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Packers
Palmer
East Side
Jaickers
Justce
Department of Justice
United States Supreme Court
Department
Baseball Pitch Kills Infielder in New York Game
Ray Chapman, Cleveland shortstop, died after being struck on the head by a pitched ball from Carl Mays of the New York Yankees in the fifth inning at Polo Grounds. Doctors performed surgery at St Lawrence Hospital but held little hope for his survival as a fractured skull and ruptured sinus were revealed.
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New York
Ray Chapman
Cleveland
Polo
Chapman
Connolly
St Lawrence Honephal
Jef
Maya
Pirot State Bank Faces Run After Panic Reports
Boston reports a bank panic at Pirot State Bank in the North End as depositors fear closure following losses linked to the Munner Truett collapse. Deposits were paused at the usual opening hour while officials sought to reassure customers. Separately, Red Cross Magazine will suspend publication due to paper costs, with October issue planned as the last.
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Boston
Mass
Pirot State Bank
North End
Knights return 8300000 to war relief fund at national conclave
Knights of Pythias in Minneapolis Minnesota decided to return eight million three hundred thousand dollars of the war relief fund to contributors of the three hundred twenty five thousand originally collected. Only twenty five thousand dollars was expended for war relief purposes per a report. A woman from Kansas City admitted passing bogus checks while in Chicago Joliet county jail under ten thousand dollars bond. She reportedly confessed while in hospital after attempting to take poison and will recover. The League of Nations invited Germany Bavaria Austria and Hungary to participate in the financial congress to be held in Brussels on September 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Knights of Pythias
Chicago
Mies Louise Lamm
Kansas City
Jol
London
Germany
Bavaria
Austsia
Hungary
League of Nations
Brussels
Commissioner enforces sex separation in Chicago health department
In Chicago the health commissioner Hobertaca separates sexes as a business axiom. A stenographer protests that the policy aims to prevent flirting with aldermen and callers, reflecting workplace segregation practices within the department.
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Chicago
Hobertaca Je
Reward Offered by Detective Agency for Missing Light
The Detertive Agency of Chi ange offers a reward of 5000 dollars for information leading to the solution of a light theft case.
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Detertive Agency
Chiange
Poles Rout Bolsheviks as 10000 Prisoners Taken in Warsaw Push
Polish forces press the northeast advance driving Bolsheviks back toward the Vistula and Bug. Officials report over 10,000 Soviet prisoners captured along with hundreds of machine guns and immense supplies. Polish advances seize Plonsk Pultusk and Wysow as Reds withdraw toward Warsaw and beyond.
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Warsaw
Hulsevik
Plonsk
Pultusk
Wysow
Vistula
Lemberg
Warkiw
Bug
Nowe Minsk
Bute Dreda
Railroads threaten embargo on coal shipments
Washington reports an immediate embargo threat on coal movement to tidewater. A joint statement by the American Railroad Association and allied groups says changes may be made to tidewater coal handling rules to curb accumulation at transshipment points.
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Washington -Up
American Mailroad
Detary Sci Lal
Willard
Association of
Kuallway
Col DD. Ih Watts
National Coal Association
Cements Son of
American Railroad
Tidewater
Heapton Reade
Tide Water
Henssler
Voul Exchange
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Fighting in Upper Silesia Reported With Casualties
Derlin reports from London describe clashes between French forces and residents of Kattowita in Upper Silesia. German dead tally about 20, French deaths about seven, per a wire dispatch from Merlin. Roosevelt crosses the Rockies three times in a single day to attend engagements in Montana. Captain Leigh Palmer, chief of the U S Navy Bureau of Navigation in World War I, tendered his resignation, accepted by Secretary Josephus Daniels.
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London
Derlin
Kattowita
Upper Silesia
Merlin
Hoosevelt
Rockies
Helens
Mont
Frenklin
Roosevelt
Rocky Mountains
Reaignt
San Diego
Cal
Leigh Palmer
USN
Bureau of Navigation
Hile
Josephus Dateleis
Bergdoll Sentenced for Desertion to Four Years Hard Labor
New York report notes Erwin HK Bergdoll of Philadelphia found guilty of desertion by evading the draft and sentenced to four years hard labor at Fort Leavenworth. Other items mention Grain Corporation capital cut, imperial order signed by Wilson, and volcanic activity at Popocatepetl with smoke rising and ashfall near Ayetzingo.
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Ervin Bergdoll
New York
Erwin HK. Bergdoll
Phladelphia
Fort Leavenworth
Grain Corporation
United States Grain Corporation
Board of Directors
Wilson
Fitting Theft Where did the other actor steal your thunder
A playful exchange notes a quip about stealing thunder during dramatic change. The lighthearted line hinges on a pun blending threat and threefold alteration. No clear person, place, or organization identified in the fragment.
Inventive Cure Promises Nausea-Free Health Boost
Hazy ad copy touts a miracle remedy named Caletaba Ons or Caletaba Tabs. It claims “Caletake” tablets ease nausea and danger while enabling colorless iodine and forceless carriages. The pitch urges bedtime use with water, promises appetite, and touts a low price of three cents.
Thousands Proclaim the Merits of Pe-ru-Na Cure
Readers from diverse states praise Pe-ru-Na for chronic stomach and bowel calarrh catarrh head and throat liver rheumatism and general health. Endorsers include Mrs Marthe Dale Kate Marquis J H Collina Ladviguen W H Edger Leona Dodd and others. They claim Pe-ru-Na cures and boosts vitality for emergencies and everyday ailments.
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Marthe C. Dale
RF. D
Cannon
Del
R Jayer
Glendale
Kate Marquis
Middleburg
Ohio
J. H. Collina
Weason
Mississippi
W. H. Edger
Cooper St
Atlanta
Georgia
Leona Dodd
Medon
Tennessee
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Giruggie
James Mott
Mlisabeth Cady Stanton
Johnetewa
N.Y
Beary B. Stanton
House
National Woman Suffrage Association
Mia
Mire Anthony
Carrie Chapman Catt
Anns Howard Shaw
Catt
Frank Leslie
National Association
League of Women Voters
Trans Woman Suffrage Alliance
Maud Wool Park
Richard Edwards
Indiana
Selon Jacobs
Alabama
Buson
Antony
Alice Pau
Tennesese
Pacific States
Otto Stifel
G. O. P. Congressional
Brewer
Buffalo
NL. Y
Vincent Crockenberg
Towands
Niagara Falls Boulevard
Curtias Flying Field
Hedley Shaw
Toronto
Taklo
Seoul
Korea
China
Philippine Islands
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Ralph W. Ktone
Indianan, Evaneville, Ltd
Dhcorge Underhill
Birdseye, Ind
Southern Indianalay Products Company
Hoentingburg
Harrow
Philippines
Manila
National Development Company
Lewat
Detroit
Syndican
Detroit Trust Company
City of
Col End
Willem Jennings Bryas
Kreiyp Tere
Asheville
C. Wars Wold
J T. Henry
Mayweed County
Anid Henry
Mays
First State
Nuthhe
Noel Ioney
Red Cross Magazine
Ap Hounewment
Pythians
Red Talle
Gbilesis
Mesiroily
Gvart
Ru-Na
National of Holland
Erie
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