Woman booster drives Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress parade
A group of Retail Auto Dealers Association volunteers, led by Mrs. R M Cramer, launched booster tours across seven routes to promote the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress and Pure Food show on Sept 27. Drivers included John Hanson, Carl Miller, Fred McCain, Edwin H Jones, and others with multiple passengers relay posters and ads despite a light rain.
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Retail Auto Dealers’ Association
Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress
Altho
A. Morris
R. M. Cramer
Die Seme
John Hanson
Carl Mileler
Fred McCain
Edwin H. Jones
Charles A. West
Andrew J. Kapapa Watsch
Larry Prdden
B. F P. Ferrando
J. W. McDonald
C. A. Morris
Fred 4. Fenton
Retail Merchants Association
S. Stel
Congress
Harry FE. Kiester
Cherst Club
M. He Kelly
Sadler
Fred A. Koenig
Kimvans Dairy Farmer
Williams Welcome Waterloo Boosters Tour Highlights City Reception
A Waterloo booster train visited Williams on Tuesday with fifty to seventy participants from local wholesale and manufacturing firms. Students, a reception committee, and a Waterloo band entertained visitors at Main street while merchants exchanged pleasantries and a heat folder with local statistics and a Waterloo welcome.
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Williams
Waterloo
Williams Enterprise
Pettit
Main Street
Williams Merchants
Wiliams
Cedar Falls News Highlights Local Events And Travel
Cedar Falls notes report weather optimism for a district fair season and the Cedar Valley road project toward Janesville. Community groups plan meals, chapel services, and social events as teachers, clergy, and clubs share updates. Notable items include illness, travel, weddings, and church activities plus a pending flag-raising by the graduating class.
Festival Visitors Arrive as Webster City Welcome Band Leads
The Webster City Commercial league party arrived by special train led by the band and toured Main Street. They praised Webster City’s business houses and residences before a one hour forty minute stay, then left for Fort Dodge. In Charles City the party met by local officials, received a city key, and mingled with residents before minor arrests for parading without a license.
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Waterloo
Swaledale
Webster City
Freeman-Fribune
Iminnis Central
Waterloo Military Band
Mary
Fort Dodge
Charles
Charles City Press
Wattring Doosters
Charles City
E.R. Innsberger
McLeod
Main Street
Chas. van Vieck
Waterloo Commercial Club
A. F Kyapp
Waterloo Monument Co
Ad Amon
Why Englishwomen Seek Equal Rights in Industry
A 1916 article summarized notes by Mabel Potter Daggett on English women workers many married and seeking independence. It describes wages from seven shillings weekly, trade barriers for women, government objections, and the suffrage response led by figures like Nell Lester, highlighting links between labor, birth rates, and rights.
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Mabel Potter Daggett
Pictorial Review
England
Parliament
Middlesbrough
Nell Lester
Editors vow high duty for sober nation in Colorado meet
One letter from President Wilson was read at the Colorado Habial Association meeting in Glenwood Springs. The note urged editors to uphold sober thinking and just purposes during a time of national tension. The report notes wide readership of the Evening Courier and Reporter.
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Glenwood Springs
Colo
Wilson
Colorado Habial Association
Colorado
Mrs I T Allen Named Corn for Iowa Campaign Chair
Mrs I T Allen of 522 Denver Street has been named chair of the Iowa corn for Iowa women campaign in Black Hawk County. She will oversee collecting bushels of corn to aid the equal suffrage effort. The Iowa Equal Suffrage Association promotes these pledges statewide with many farmers offering corn at the Des Moines state fair. Proceeds go to the campaign fund. Allen, a former farmer, has wide farmer contacts to secure pledges and asks contributors to report to her.
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I. T. Allen
Denver Street
Black Mawk County
Iowa Equal Suffrage Association
Des Moines
Alen
Allen
Married women stay at work amid factory pay dispute
A twenty year old factory worker proudly counts thirty shillings from her pay envelope, insisting a woman with her own wage can choose independence. She tells a courting suitor she will live with him only if he provides food, challenging the government to risk forcing married women home. Other workers like Nell Lester join the stance, as Parliament reconsiders plans to send married women home.
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Laddie
Nell Lester
Parlament
Cosson on Woman Suffrage Echoes in Des Moines
In Des Moines on September 18 Attorney General Casson defended equal suffrage saying democracy rests on women’s participation in government. He argued the forthcoming primary will decide if women may actually vote, stating the suffrage movement began at humanity’s dawn.
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Des Moines
Casson
Women Urged to Organize for Universal Suffrage
The piece describes a growing wave of enfranchisement from nobles to workers and argues women deserve full political rights. It covers Mrs. Belmont urging a new women voters party, the first U.S. Women Voters convention in San Francisco, and speakers from diverse fields advocating a civilizational shift and a concerted push for a national suffrage amendment.
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San Francisco
Cal
O. H. P. Belmont
New York
United States
Patury
Charlotte Anita Whitney
Congressional Union
California
Congressional Union For Woman Sufrage
Yami Kim
Maria Montessori
Mabel Taliaferro
Janet Richards
Washington, D. C
Chas. W. Kayser
Chicago
J. H. Braly
Los Angeles
B. M. Wilson
Golffield, Nev
Fremont Older
Suffrage Convention Scheduled in Des Moines Details
Des Moines announces the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association will hold its annual convention at the Savery hotel starting October 20. Charlotte Perkins Gilman will lecture on The Making of World Citizens and county chairmen will present their campaign plans as suffragists push toward Votes for Women. Flora Dunlap advances to vice president of the Iowa Peace Society amid travels with her Ohio visit.
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Des Moines
Iowa Equal Suffrage Association
Savery Hotel
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Flora Dunlap
Iowa Peace Society
Dunlap
Ohio
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Evening Courier
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First Congregational Church
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George J. Wilson
Day Street
Oak Ridge
George Philpot
Roger Leavitt
Chester Stilmon
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Fred S. Pettit
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society
Idoger Langer Club
Lila Wilson
John Wilson
George McChane
Cedar Pass
Janesville
Franklin Street
Speer
Faye Palmer
Kinjoy
Even- Ine Courier
Revorter
Cosson
Alice Paul
National Congressional Union
National Senate
National House of Representatives
Silvertown
Cord Tires
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