Pennsylvania Women Respond To War Council Call
Suffragists from across the United States plan to travel to Washington for an Emergency Executive Council session of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Carrie Chapman Catt urges unity to decide how suffrage groups will support the federal government if the U.S. enters World War I. Pennsylvania delegates include Mrs. George A. Dunning, Mrs. L. L. Smith, and Mrs. J. O. Miller. discussions cover a Home Army and overall wartime strategy.
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Executive Council
National American Woman Suffrage Association
United States
Germany
Carrie Chapman Catt
Wilson Pennsylvanians
Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association
Wilson
Brumbaugh
Catt
Pennsylvania
George A. Dunning
Philadelphia
L. L. Smith
Strafford
J. O. Miller
Pittsburgh
Suffrage Lobby Sees Easy Sledding in House Bill
Relays of suffrage workers active at Harrisburg report easy sledding for the amendment bill in the 1917 Legislature. The lobby is led by Mrs. Antoinette Funk with vice chairman Mrs. J. O. Miller and includes Mrs. Lewis Lawrence Smith and Miss Henri Clark among others. Representative Samuel A. Whitaker introduced the amendment on January 30 as bill number 117 and referred to Constitutional Reform.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Woman’s Suffrage Association
House of Representatives
J. O. Miller
Antoinette Funk
Lewis Lawrence Smith
Strafford
George 4. Dunning
Philadelphia
Henr C. Clark
James Rogers
Warren
E. Kiernan
Somerset
Edwin Linton
Washington
Robert Milli Seach
Bellefonte
Samuel A. Whitaker
Chester
Committee On
No record of class power without abuse says Buckle
The quote argues that any class with power tends to abuse it, applying the principle across men as a class, hereditary nobility, or property holders as discussed in Buckle’s History of Civilization.
Suffrage Worker Elsie Mackenzie to Speak in Pennsylvania Counties
Mrs Elsie Mackenzie once famed suffrage worker and trained nurse arrives from the trenches of France to lecture across Pennsylvania. Engaged by the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association she will address meetings in Beaver Butler Chester Delaware Westmoreland Allegheny and other counties. she asserts women's suffrage overseas will be secured when peace is declared.
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Elsie Mackenzie
Rance
Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association
Sevral
Miss Mackenzie
Beaver
Butler
Chester
Delaware
Westuoreland
Allegheny
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Warren National Bank
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