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New York--With the voters of
three of the big eastern states cast
ing their ballots tomorrow on the
question OF giving the ballot to wo-
men, interest among women of the
east centers on the big campaign
closing tonight. In Massachusetts,
New York and Pennsylvania extens-
i've campaigns have been conducted,
and the women have had the center
of the stage, the great political is.
sues being minus this year. Although
the hopes Of the campaigners were
dashed by the New Jersey defeat,
there is still reasonable likelihood
that at least one of the states will
grant the vote to women tomorrow.
Pennsylvania is picked as the like
liest field of victory. New York has
not opened up It's heart to the wo-
mems cause, and 1t Is reported that
the old parties have cast buckets of
cold water on the suffrage movement.
There is another bright spot on the
election map for women tomorrow,
for Detroit women over 81 who own
real estate are eligible to vote on
the question Of purchasing the big
street railway. The state constitution
in Michigan grants the vote to wo-
men on question Of acquiring a pub.
lie utility or granting franchise.
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Boston-Among the American doc
tors who played a prominent part in
combating the dreaded typhus
scourge in war.racked Servia Is DR..
Louisa Taylor,Jones, who recently re-
turned to Boston. For three months,
while thousands of men, women and
children were dying with typhus,
Mrs. Taylor-Jones risked her life in
the Servian villages and earned the
name "The American angel Of the
Serbs" Before leaving for home she
established hospital for babies at
Nish, with the financial backing of
Nine. Mabel Grouitch, the American
wife of high Servian official.
Tyron, N. C.-Teaching mountain
children the arts of handicraft is the
new position of Miss Mary H. Large
of Chicago. She is field teacher
and worker, under the auspices of the
Southern Industrial Educational AS
sociation, and she is going from one
village to another showing the wo-
men and children the better methods
of weaving and basket-making.
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Washington-Miss Edith Benham,
daughter of the late Rear Admiral
Benham, U. s. NJ, is to be the new
socia! secretary at the White House,
it is said. Miss Benham is acting in
that capacity for Mrs. Gait, and she
is accomplished and popular, and is
well-versed in Washington etiquette.
Miss Benham will succeed Miss Isa-
bel A. Hagner, whose resignation fol-
lows her engagement.
Hoopeston, Ill.-Because she was
too strenuous in her endeavors to rid
the town of night providers, Mrs. Ag-
mes Frisinger, the police matron and
guardian of Hoopeston, must
find new fields to conquer. The wo-
men of the town are making fight
to have her retained, although she
was dismissed by vote of the city
council. 1t is said that the mayor
was going home late at night when
he was stopped by the policewoman,
who was hiding. After rigidly ques.
tioning him, she let him go. But the
mayor was let down light. She caus-
ed the resignation of two police off,
GERS, including the chief. With a
fiashlight and gun she went sleuth-
ing at night, and she ratified the
bones of many family skeletons.
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New York-Miss Rose Bower, the
suffragist bugler, who finishes her
strenuous campaign for "the cause"
here today, is going right back to her
2,200-acre ranch in South Dakota.
She lives in the foothills of the Black
Hills. She operates her own ranch,
but took a few months of to help
her afflicted sisters of the east to
fight for freedom" She says she
likes her ranch best when she gets
away and thinks of 1t.
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Seattle--Miss Reah M. Whitehead,
now a successful judge in Seattle, be-
gan her business career as STEM
Ographer in a law office in her home