Melting pot plan to raise suffrage funds in Iowa
Des Moines April 17. The Iowa Equal Suffrage association chose a melting pot fund drive at Mrs. Pleasant J Mills home to solicit old gold and silver statewide. New district chairmen were appointed in Keokuk Fairfield and Onawa. The board lauded lawmakers Allen Ring and Nordyke, and noted that ten states have approved or advanced full suffrage amendments since January 1915.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Pleasant J. Mills
Thirty-seventh Street
Iowa
Iowa Equal Suffrage Association
Winona Reeves
Keokuk
M. Chilcot
Fairfield
Ida K. Simmons
Onawa
Joseph H. Allen
Herbert C. Ring
R. D. Nordyke
Mills
Flora Dunlap
7. B. McHose
Boone
Susan H. Brown
Panora
James Devitt
Oskaloosa
John D. Denison
J. G. Grandy
Jansen Haines
Elizabeth Perkins
Three Experiments In Black Hawk Co Obops
Farm Improvement association arranged experiments in Black Hawk County with acre plots for barley and oats. Oats at Hans Hansen and Pfeiffer farms test Iowa 103 Iowa 105 Kherson Silver Mine School Maam Trish Victor Lincoln and other varieties. Breeding plots planned for Reid's corn and a five year study with Ames cooperation on C P Bley farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Improvement Association
Hans Hansen
Trish Victor
Lincoln
Black Hawk County
Reid
Farm Crops Department
Ames
C. P. Bley
Suffrage for Fire Laws Urged by New York Campaign Speaker
Son of New York delivered his maiden suffrage speech for the empire state committee on Victory in 1914. He argued women’s vote is essential for proper fire laws, citing the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and its 147 women dead, and urged women to vote to spur democracy and factory safety reforms.
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Son
New York
Empire State Campaign Committee
Adanmison
Triangle
Robert Walen
Editors of Farm Papers for Suffrage
Two editors of farming journals in New York New Jersey and Iowa come out for equal suffrage. Herbert W. Collingwood Rural New Yorker urges support in March 27 issue while James M. Pierce Iowa Homestead Wisconsin Farmer and other farm journals declare emphatic support for women voting. Pierce argues farming benefits from women partners and predicts Iowa women will vote soon. He notes South African Boer women gaining municipal suffrage as context.
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New York
New Jersey
Iowa
Herbert W. Collingwood
New Yorker
James M. Pierce
Iowa Homestead
Wisconsin
Pierce
Tam
America
Towa
Union
Women stockholders deny poll tax power in rail push
Samuel Rea asks stockholders to urge repeal of the Full Crew laws, claiming a large ownership base. Philadelphia Equal Franchise Society notes that most stockholders are women and that unenfranchised women have no legislative power to act. It urges Rea to persuade others to support enfranchising women in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Samuel Rea
Wotan
Equal Franchise Society of Philadelphia
Rea
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Equal suffrage movement spans states and nations
Virginia hosts 63 equal suffrage leagues as activity grows. London’s Royal Astronomical Society votes to admit women fellows. 4,000 member Friends of Israel back women’s enfranchisement in New York. Kansas City opens permanent suffrage HQ with a March 10 housewarming. Kentucky and Missouri universities organize suffrage efforts. Mrs. Helen B. Hathaway in Butte regains vote after 22 years. New York straw poll at Made in U S A expo shows broad support. Scottish suffrage nurses establish hospitals in Edinburgh. London ambulances praised. Wisconsin sending suffrage school model to Panama-Pacific expo. Massachusetts sends miniature Bunker Hill monument. Cleveland teachers form Votes for Women auxiliary. New Mexico noted as last state without a suffrage group, yet supports equality through state federation resolution.
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Massachusetts
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Tennessee
Arkansas
South Dakota
Maine
Friends of Equal Rights
Upper
Town
Vermont
Senate
House
Indiana
Nebraska
Minnesota
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Missouri
Texas
House Committee
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association
Congressional Union
San Francisco
Massachusetts Suffrage Association
Bunker Hill
W Womb
Indirect Influence Fails Women’s Club Push
A legislative committee of the Women’s Clubs in Somerville failed to secure any legislator to testify at a real meeting about four measures of federation interest. The sole male speaker was a lawmaker who would lose his job if the bill passed. If legislators had faced 1,400 voters, attendance would have been different.
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Legislative Committee of the Women's Clubs
Somerville
Federation
West High Boys Bible Class Holds Open Meeting Sunday
The Rev J R Macartney of the First Presbyterian Church will speak in the Y M M C A gymnasium at o o clock Sunday afternoon. It marks the first open meeting planned by the group.
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West High Boys
J. R. Macartney
First Presbyterian Church
Y. MM. CG. A
Bible class explores prophecy of Daniel in post and future
A Presbyterian minister leads Wattrlog Weet High Bible class with over fifty boys. The topic centers on what God has done, is doing, and will do in the future as foretold in the prophecy of Daniel.
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Wattrlog Weet
Danak
J T Ryan Freed by Jury Verdict Acquittal
At 12:30 this morning the jury in the state versus J T Ryan returned a verdict of acquittal on embezzlement charges involving 87 dollars from the Rock Island railway while an agent at Waterloo. The trial followed a prior hung jury and Ryan contends the funds were accounted for. He was supported by his wife and young son in court. his attorney was J T Sullivan. He has been free on bond since indictment.
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State
J. T. Ryan
Rock Island Railway
Waterloo
Ryan
J. T. Sullivan
Hopeful letter on Frederick Hinkle’s accident recovery
Rev G W Hinkle received a letter from Dr Schallenberg about his ten year old son Frederick struck by a car on Riverside Drive New York City April 5. The latest update says the boy has regained consciousness with normal pulse and temperature, though his skull was crushed with internal injuries.
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G W. Hinkle
Schallenberger
Frederick
Riverside Drive
New York City
Mr. Hinkle
Real Estate Transfers List for La Porte Waterloo and Surrounding Areas
Real estate transfers show multiple conveyances in La Porte City Waterloo and nearby towns. Buyers include William T McQuilkin Albert T Kline Geo E Virden and W J Gowans with properties ranging from blocks and lots to government patents. Transfers involve prices from 1 to 1500 dollars and include notes for Pleasant View and Bishop Additions.
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Black Hawk Co. Abstract Co
William T. McQuilkin
Harry C. McQuilkin
Pierce’s
la Porte
Albert T. Kline
Benjamin Ochs
la Porté
Geo. E. Virden
J. W. Stewart
Virden
la Porte City
Town Investment Co
Louis M. Boigot
Ricker & Bratnober Land Co
Waterloo
Louis M. Bossot
J. F. Cass
Gen. E. Virden
Minerva J. Wagner
W. J. Gowans
E. E. Peek
Linden Place
E. Peck
Sarah Peck
Waterloo Place
Litchfield Add
United States
Noah H. Letts
Charles Wiske
Samuel Doran
L. B. Knapp
WM. C. Matthias
Stages Drug Co
Cowin
Nus couple mark sixtieth wedding anniversary
Hermann Nus of Second Street West attended the sixtieth wedding anniversary of his parents Mr and Mrs Tugo Nus near Artington last week. The couple enjoys good health. The marriage oc-
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Hermann
Nus
Inv
Second Street West
Tugo Nus
Artington
Unclear 1860s Ohio Family Reunion Fragments
Fragmentary OCR recalls a Cleveland event on April 9 1860 involving Mr Nawwoe and his wife and their move to Tayloraville in 182? They are described amid prosperity and a cheerful scene with Hedme and eleven of their children present among a larger family group of forty four.
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Cleveland
Nawwoe
Tayloravite
Rample
Children Attend Christening At Nus Household
An eventful day featured the christening of Josephine Don ng, baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nichard Nus, while twenty creathrandchildren were in attendance, including four of the younger generation.
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Josephine Donng
Nichard Nus
Stuudpar
Wedding Anniversary Observed at Local Family Home
An odd OCR fragment notes a family event with a wedding cake by Mr. Rembold and mentions Mr Nus's parents, a dedication, and an 1884 reference. The garbled text references a ceremony, a birthday or anniversary, and a health or insurance line, all in a small local context.
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Rembold
Rena
Nus
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Orange
J. H. Riley
Cedar Falls Township
J. Patlnick
A. L. Kregar
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