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A noble, but ultimately unsuccessful effort today to get the New York County Medical Society to call for changing the State's present anti-birth-control law, which, except under very specific circumstances, makes it a crime punishable by imprisonment for anyone to give out information on contraception, or birthRead more

A colorful and moving tribute to Inez Milholland Boissevain today at Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol. It was totally fitting that her memorial would be in such a place, having given her life for the cause of political equality for women.Read more

A "Revolutionary" form of protest today by Reverend Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She told the tax collector that she would neither list nor voluntarily pay taxes on her property and advised all other voteless women to do the same.Read more

The long battle to get Congress to approve the Susan B. Anthony (woman suffrage) Amendment is nearly over, according to Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She returned to New York today following the recent N.A.W.S.A. convention, and told those who greeted her thatRead more

Though New York State's suffrage referendum went down to defeat on November second, Harriot Stanton Blatch said today that she and a number of other suffragists are still determined to cast their votes in next November's Presidential election, and have figured out a way to legally do it. How? Well, since a ballotRead more

A spectacular procession, followed by a stunning protest in favor of woman suffrage, took place this afternoon at the Lafayette Monument in Washington, D.C. The reason for the demonstration - held on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party in 1773 - was to call attention to the fact that President Wilson arrivedRead more

The Maxwell Motor Company's salesroom on "Automobile Row" at Broadway and Fifty-ninth Street in Manhattan took on a delightfully feminist air today. The company inaugurated its new policy of employing women to demonstrate and sell automobiles - and will even be paying them on the same basis as men. On hand to takeRead more

Woman suffrage has returned to America! For the first time since 1807, when the New Jersey Legislature disenfranchised that State's women voters, there is now a part of the United States where a woman can legally cast a ballot: The Territory of Wyoming!Read more