Suffragists in Iowa Organizing to Win Ballot
Iowa suffrage clubs outline open publicity tactics and statewide organization led by Miss Elizabeth Perkins Des Moines and Mrs Flora Dunlap Des Moines as they push the equal suffrage amendment toward a 1916 primary vote. State officers include Mrs Fred Patterson Sioux City and others with plan to mobilize voters and public campaigning.
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Sioux City Journal
Cits
Fred Patterson
Sioux City
Elizabeth Perkins
Des Moinns
State Suffrage’ Association
Flora Dunlap
Des Moines
J. St. McHose
Boone
James A. Devitt
Oskaloosa
J. J. Haines
Susie Brown
Panora
J. G. Grundy
Patterson
Jennie I. Berry
Cedar Rapids
How. Spalding
Grinnell
Mlinois
Senate
Suffrage Gardens to Aid Campaign Across States
The Pennsylvania Women Suffrage Association launches suffrage pardon ideas to be adapted nationwide. Waving yellow gardens will appeal to voters in New York New Jersey and Massachusetts as Planting Day on May 1 is set for the suffrage gardens.
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Pennsylvania Women Suffrage Association
United States
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Massachusetts
West Virginia
Michigan
North Carolina
Florida
Texas
Lauisiana
Vermont
New Hampshire
Illinois
Connecticut
Minnesota
Maine
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Anne H. Shaw
Friends of Suffrage
Dead Men with, Live Women? No Campaign Question
Anna Cadogan Eiz cites a southern state finding a candidate who had died over a year still cast votes. Terre Haute reports many deceased men remain on polling lists and voters casting their ballots. The piece argues that when dead men can vote, educated women fear disfranchisement and question the exclusion.
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Anna Cadogan Eiz
Terre Haute
Campaign tactics by New York women on phone outreach
The article notes women in New York adopting telephone outreach in campaigning, replacing standard greetings with a persuasive message. It highlights the strategic use of telephonic publicity as a modern method to influence voters and spread slogans about voting rights and reforms.
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New York
Logan
Women’s Society marks 56th annual meet in town
The Ladies Social Gathering, oldest local summer society, held its fifty sixth annual election and planned Games for the year. Founded in 1869 to provide a final resting place at Union Cemetery, the group organized four and a half acres of ground bought for forty dollars and cleared by a spring bee. New officers include President Mrs H A Elsworth and Vice President Miss Mary H Bliss with directors such as Mrs J A Ellsworth and Mrs A J Foster.
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Jown Falls
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Hetle
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M. Testun
J Smith
Bh. Sayer
Union Cemetery
A. A. Wells
T. J. McChesney
A. J. Jfoster
Gily
BO W. Pyle
Pasadena
Ll. B. Jones Heff
J. A. Ellsworth
Foster
Robert Wright
Methodists Back Equal Suffrage Push in Two States
The Ohio Methodist Men, about 3000 strong in Columbus, urged granting voting rights to women for moral force and unity. In Norristown Pennsylvania the Methodist Episcopal conference with 400 delegates unanimously supported political equality and urged members to work for constitutional reform to enfranchise women in November.
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Methodist Men of
Ohio
Columbus
Norristown
Methodist Episcopal Conference
Kind of Women Who Use Ballot In Topeka
Election Commissioner W H Kemper of Topeka reports 7369 women registered there. Of these 6100 are home keepers and 1250 include clerks stenographers teachers heads of business groups nurses doctors musicians bookkeepers cashiers dressmakers mil liners hired cooks proof readers artists pharmacists hairdressers dentist and 340 follow other means. He notes women in every city of non suffrage states want to vote and cannot.
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W. H. Kemper
Topeka
Kan
Teathers
Exhibition at Currie Hardware Show Features Bird House Sales
Secretary Wibbard and Supt Palmer expect boys to sell their bird house product over the weekend at Currie hardware. Cards attached on many houses read not for sale, while some better houses are offered for sale.
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Currie Hardware
Wibbard
Supt. Palmer
Western Apples Advance Prices Across Local Markets
Western apples rise 16 cents per perch to 75 cents. California tomatoes drop to 20 cents per pound. Garden seeds selling well with warm weather. red bananas noted, with other fruits and vegetables mostly steady. Florida celery 5 cents per bunch, pineapple 20 cents each. rhubarb 10 cents per pound, Louisiana strawberries 20 cents per pint. Seed potatoes 1.25 per bushel. southern new potatoes three pounds for 25 cents. Butter prices unchanged. License to wed issued to Walter B. Coram and Eva Knode from Waterloo.
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California
Florida
Louisiana
Truck load of bird houses exhibited in Mason City
In Mason City on April 10 a truck load of bird houses built by upper grade classes at the manual training building was moved to a new display site. The project showcased student craftsmanship and evening work by the class.
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Mason City
Polish devastation described as Belgium all over again
The article cites Sienkiewicz to claim vast Polish territory burned or ruined by invading troops. It reports thousands of villages destroyed, forests as refuges for starving civilians, and massive losses of livestock and subsistence, portraying the invasion as a harsher form of statecraft against Polish civilians.
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Saturday Evening Post
Poland
Sienkiewicz
Belgium
Siam
Equal suffrage gains widen in leading daily papers
The New York World Philadelphia Ledger Providence Journal and Indianapol is News favor equal suffrage after years of opposition. Daughters of the Revolution may endorse suffrage. County Clerk Dave Kehoe of Butte Montana places voting machines in three department stores to teach women voting, and at recent primaries 4740 women voted with 227 for Socialist candidates.
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New York World
The
Philadelphia Ledger
Providence Journal
Indianape News
Dave Kehoe
Butte, Mont
Butte
Hitaso
Increased Danish demand for horse meat to Germany
Copenhagen reports a sharp rise in horse meat demand sent to Germany with prices at new highs. Danish horse butchers note demand outstrips supply and many battle killed horses are unfit for consumption and disposed of. Dexter Phelps grinds lenses and makes glasses while you wait.
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Copenhagen
Germany
Dexter Phelps
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