Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1917 — ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN [ARTICLE]

ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN

Women have been voting in the Unltted States for the past 40 years. Female schoolteachers in Boston have won the first step in the fight to give them equal salaries with the men. Miss Antoinette Taylor of St. Louis has just come into possession of a tabl< that was once the property of John Hancock. Under the provisions of gthe bill passed by the New York senle, w6man printers will be permitted to work at night - » The New York legislature has passed.a bill establishing a six-day, 54hour week for women employed in restaurants. Two sisters—Jennie and Blanche Lamb—have the distinction of being the only woman homesteaders In Ventura county, Cal., who are, making good. Last year they cleared over $l,lOO from ttieir land, and expect to double the amount this year.