Northerner Dares Navy Wears Jackie Uniform on Battleship Kansas
Miss Jeanette Evans, a Northern girl from Joliet Illinois, dressed as a jackie and boarded the U S S Kansas during a Atlantic fleet voyage from New Orleans to Galveston to win a chocolate bet. She was captured aboard but released after singing for officers and later stayed with the fleet to Galveston before returning to New Orleans.
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United States Navy
Navy
Atlantic Fleet
New Orleans
Galveston
Jeanette Evans
Joliet
Illinois
Miss Evans
Kansas
Jackie
Gulf
George Ade
Panama
U. S
S. Kansas
St. Bernard Parish
Leonora
Louisiana
U. S. S. Kansas
Irons
Suffragists consider animal emblem choices for ballots
The National Committee of the Equal Suffrage League weighs animal emblems to rally support. Candidates include the red phalarope and the Surinam toad with male care, the bustard quail, the crow and rook for militant women, the spider among others, to symbolize suffrage.
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Equal Suffrage League
Emmy Pankhurst
Animal Kingdom
Surinam
Toad
Reno
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Margaret Montgomery
South
North Atlantic
Canada
Baffin’s Bay