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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1915
Page
16
Iowa women drive civic improvements from playgrounds to cleanups. Massena and Bridgewater organize suffrage clubs, Des Moines hosts teas, and a statewide poll shows broad support for equal suffrage. The campaign relies on personal canvass and local projects to boost the June vote.
Des Moines reports the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association and suffrage leaders will not endorse or solicit endorsements for any state office candidates. They insist on neutrality until the June primaries, stressing that winning the vote comes before partisan alignments and that support must not jeopardize the suffrage cause.
Governor Strong of Alaska defends woman suffrage in the territory as a success. He argues suffrage has not disrupted domestic roles, notes women vote for progress, and credits enfranchisement with curbing liquor issues. He condemns denying votes to women as prejudice and ignorance of national rights.
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, urges organized labor to support woman suffrage arguing the ballot enhances industrial freedom. He says women deserve full citizenship and a voice in working conditions, warning that denying the ballot pits men against women in the labor market. A Clara Barton memorial proposal is noted, linking Barton's example to suffrage advocacy.
The excerpt recalls a suffrage speaker’s call for ballot rights for women and a personal pledge of support from a speaker to the movement. It notes a woman who died without voting but believed suffrage would come, and mentions Alice Stone Blackwell of Chilmark Massachusetts delivering a speech on September 5.
Progress on the roundhouse extension with 40 stalls planned and roof raised five feet. Railway news reports new steel ties, Peru’s high Andes crossing, Chilean rail govt ownership, and recoveries of injured workers with updates from ship notes and staff movements.
secretary Woon.yaad of the Citizens this & Moetrty VOM chaired a 38 member banquet at VMated Rasy Helton. President Hust gave informal remarks. Other officers Nathan Bo Bacher and Charles W. Why spoke. attendees included George MM and others from various local firms and utilities.
An advertisement extols S S S Blood Tonic as a cure for rheumatic pain and fatigue by cleansing the blood of arsenic-like impurities. It promises restored vitality, urges readers to obtain S S S from a druggist and to seek advice by writing to S S S Co. of Atlanta.
Ambiguous records show Commination company members from Ch AS Raby Ely Cougipeey and others submitting items to a Lightfield Manufacture firm and parties including Mairbanks, WoL, Poddle for membership review.
The report highlights Mrs. Clark George at Waverly Hospital and Charles Piet’s yearlong illness. Mentions Kayisan opening a Winslow store, Mrs. Orville Paws visiting New Hartford, and Albert Cyapshy with family at Pheyeapirt. Also notes Mr and Mrs Kayisan, Myron Robrabacher, and Geneepeve’s attendance at Verugady Center events, plus condolences and ongoing recoveries.
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