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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1909
Page
8
Merle Wane recounts a Seattle Equal Suffrage of Collegiate and Professional Women meeting at Miss Adeila Parker's home. Parker, a prominent East Side suffragette, was elected president and outlines her reasons for suffrage, stressing taxation, governance, social reform, education, sanitation, and youth development.
A speaker argues that personal indignity from disenfranchisement affects both sexes. Control by one class over another is inherently wrong, and women suffer in laws and courts as men would under female control. The speaker asserts the importance of their life work.
Salt Lake City reports Reed Smoot renominated as United States senator from Utah with no dissent. The local dramatic club presentation is also noted in the same brief.
The senate voted to raise the speakers salary to fifteen thousand dollars per year for nine years. The action reflects a congressional pay adjustment reported from Washington.
Mrs Mary J Hart special agent for the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition declares no totem poles will grace the Alaska building. She notes Alaska ladies auxiliaries have organized exhibits of education art and women’s work and cites past fairs where totem poles drew savage stereotypes. The forthcoming exhibit aims to present an epitome of Alaskan life and progress.
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