Duchess of Weaselskin

Bayfield, CO - NW Okie says every once in awhile, "Duchess, you are in the driver's seat!" And NW Okie keeps pulling out my baby pictures to proof that point, such as the photo on the left taken about eight years ago when I was just a young pup! Do I look determined and know where, what I want?

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Lucy Price - Youngest Anti-Suffrage Worker (1915)

America - In a news article dated April 11, 1915, that appeared in The Pittsburgh Press, Miss Lucy Price was youngest anti-suffrage worker. She was working in Western Pennsylvania under auspices of National Association opposed to Woman suffrage. Miss Price had debated often with Miss Fola LaFollette. LaFollette and Price were also considered best of friends.

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The Pioneer Woman of Civil Rights In 1955

Montgomery, Alabama - This week we remind you of the woman that began the "Civil Rights" movement that most historians date back to 1 December 1955. That was a day when an unknown seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. This woman who refused to give up her bus seat was the honorable, inspirational Rosa Parks.

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1st Woman To Vote In Congress Election (Mrs. C. W. Rogers)

America - The picture in that news article shows the first woman to vote in the Congress Election. It was Mrs. C. W. Rogers. It was in the 10 March 1918, Section 5, Magazine Section, page 17 that we found this article where suffrage worker tells her news in rhyme and opens up the glad Sprintime, as written by Eleanor Booth Simmons, and titled -- "And Now The Suffragette Doth Shine."

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Milwaukee's Municipal Public Dance of 1910

America - According to The Spokane Press, dated Saturday, 17 December 1910, out of Spokane, Washington, there was a female news writer (Lucy Price) that wen unescorted and found the Milwaukee's Municipal Public Dance place where she would take her younger sister next time. Evils of the Common Dance Hall were removed and there were no artificial attempt at the "Uplift" and No pat range. The Young people feel that it was their club and it belonged to them. The article begins on page one and continues on page six. [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

100 Years Ago Today - March 12, 1912

America - The Democratic Banner, dated Tuesday, 12 March 1912, out of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, had an interesting headline that caught my interest because of the name of Warwick. Before we present the 1912 article and Lady Warwick, let us look at some history of the Earls of Warwick Castle.

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Highland County Virginia - Under the British Crown

Highland County, Virginia - This week's journey through the early days of Highland County and the Valley of Virginia continues with Chapter IX of Oren Frederic Morton's book entitled, The History of Highland County, Virginia. We continue where we left off with the earliest mention of a road in Bath around 1749, when William Jackson was directed to mark and lay off a way from Jackson's River to Colonel Johnson's on the Cowpasture.

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Suffragists Plan Big Parade In Washington May 9 (1914)

America - 20 April 1914, Noon Edition, The Day Book, Chicago, Illinois -- [In the picture on the left, from left to right, upper row, Miss Alice Paul and Miss Lucy Burns; Lower Row, Miss Elisie Hill, Mrs. Donald Hooker and Miss Doris Stevens.]

Washington, DC, April 20, 1914 -- A group of active, energetic women were planning for the big suffrage parade and demonstration that would be held in Washington, DC, May 8, 1914. These women were officers in the Congressional Union which was known as the militant branch of the National Suffrage Organization.

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Officers of Congressional Union

America - [Those listed in the photo are: Miss Lucy Burns, Vice Chairman Congressional Union; Miss Alice Paul, Chairman of Congression Union; and Virginia Arnold, Treasurer of Congressional Union.]

According to The Washington Times, Washington, DC, page 11, dated 18 November 1918, on the Personalities and Activities of Women page, it speaks of Campaign for nation-wide suffrage opens with renewed vigor, National Amendment to enfranchise women occupies position of supreme importance in affairs of Nation, according to Miss Alice Paul. They reported as seeing victory near, with both political parties striving for favor.

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NW Okie's Corner

Bayfield, CO - My grandmother, Constance Estella Warwick McGill, was a strong-willed, determined woman in her lifetime! Anyway, that is how she appeared to this NW Okie. I sometimes wish I could now go back to when she was alive to see what she thought of what is going on with the injustices the male congress have imposed on women's rights to make their own healthcare choices today.

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Women's Suffrage History In America

America - Searching back through the old newspaper for women's suffrage, we find that The Day Book, 14 April 1913, Chicago, Illinois mentions fFour women who were directing the "National Suffrage Fight" in Washington:

Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the congressional committee of the National Women's Suffrage Association, is the girl in the cap and gown in the picture on the left. She was the exact anti-thesis of the conventional idea of a woman's suffrage leader, being small and delicate. She came from a family of old Pennsylvania Quakers, the people who had been first in the fight for so many reforms affecting fundamental democracy.

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4-Million Use Big Stick On Congress To Get Ballot

America - According to The Day Book, Chicago, Illinois, Vol. 3, No. 62, Wednesday, 10 December 1913, we find the headlines, "4,000,000 Will Use the Big Stick On Congress To Get Ballot," as it was written by Frederick M. Kerby. It tells us in the report that the suffrage will use strength in ten states to whip congress into line, holding the Democratic party responsible because it was the party in power back then.

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Women's Aided Reed's Defeat of 1920

Missouri - 27 June 1920, The Washington Times, Final Edition, page 3, Washington DC, headlines read: "Women Aided Reed's Defeat," Rejection of Missouri Senator welcomed because of suffrage attitude. It was written by Mrs. Kellogg Fairbanks, member of the executive committee of the Democratic National committee.

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