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Article, written by Senator Thomas B. Catron, in opposition to a federal suffrage amendment.

Contents include:
Failure of women to vote when given the ballot
The women's vote for president
Taxation and woman suffrage
Prohibition and woman…

Senator James Martine, of New Jersey presents an article from the District of Columbia Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage presenting with facts on the negative impact of women voters in states where women were granted the right to vote.

The…

Blank form created by the Michigan Equal Suffrage Association, to be signed by the acting president of the Bay City Equal Suffrage Assocaiton, to authorize individuals appointed by the organization as "challengers" to polling places during the…

Official election ballot includes the list of candidates for the People's Party, Free coinage, and Republican parties.

Along the bottom of each column is the measure to approve or deny equal suffrage in Colorado. Colorado women won the right to…

Official election ballot includes the proposed state constitutional amendment for woman's suffrage.

In 1917, the Maine Suffrage Amendment was defeated by a vote of 40,000 to 20,000. In 1919, Maine became the third New England state to ratify the…

The bill of sale for a 20-year old female slave named Phoebe from the estate of Thomas W. Huquay, deceased, by Matthew W. Locke and Delia Huquay.

Phoebe was sold by public auction to William J. Goodman, also of Lewis County, Arkansas for the sum…

Terms for a contest sponsored by the Black Hawk Country Suffrage Campaign Committee for the "rural school puils of Black Hawk County who will write the best letters containing the greatest number of best reasons why women should be given the…

May have been a reprint of an address given by MacArthur. The author discusses the reasons why the right to vote for women would be valuable to men and the need to work together as equals to make the world better.

"We women appeal to each other…

Argues that men are primarily concerned with their interests and do not represent women's interests.

Massachusetts voters rejected the referendum in November 1915, along with New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. On June 25, 1919, Massachusetts…

Makes the argument that men are primarily concerned with their interests and do not represent women's interests. Urges reader to vote for the woman suffrage amendment on November 7th. The amendment lost in 1916.

Pennsylvania was among the first…