Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1914 — Activities of Women. [ARTICLE]

Activities of Women.

In Budapest women guides and interpreters wear a different colored ribbon for each language they speak. it is estimated that 25,554,754 women over twenty-one years of age in the United State* want the franchise. Although she is blind, Mrs. Emma McKinsey of Kokomo, Ind., has made Sy great success as a storekeeper. Mrs. Catherine Haverty is at the head of the Haverty Taxicab company in New York, which operates 60 taxies. Mayor-elect Mitchel of New York M in favor of women suffrage, and it Is most likely that be will appoint several women to Important positions in the city departments of “Gotham.” In Japan the big coal barges are manned by women, who remove the coal to the ships. The girls stand on the rungs of a ladder and pass the buckets to one another over their heads. . . i *■!