Miss Anthony's
introduction of Pioneers--Addresses on The New Woman and The New
Man--Women in New York municipal election--Miss Anthony's 82d
birthday--Mr. Blackwell on Presidential suffrage for
women--Hearings before committees of Congress--Addresses of
Norwegian and Australian delegates before Senate Committee--Dr.
Shaw's plea for a committee to investigate conditions in Equal
Suffrage States--Speeches of Russian, Swedish and English
delegates--Mrs. Catt's insistence on a Congressional Committee to
investigate the working of woman suffrage where it exists.

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Very successful meeting in New Orleans--Description of
_Picayune_--Ovation to Miss Anthony and Mrs. Caroline E.
Merrick--Dr. Shaw's response--Mrs. Catt's president's
address--_Times Democrat_ brings up Negro Question, official
board of the association states its position--Visit to colored
women's club--Reports of officers--Presidential suffrage for
women--Mrs. Colby's report on Industrial Problems relating to
Women and Children--Addresses of Dr. Henry Dixon Bruns, M. J.
Sanders, president of Progressive Union--Memorial service for
Mrs. Stanton--Speeches on Educational Qualification for
voting--"Dorothy Dix" on The Woman with the Broom--Address of
Edwin Merrick--Belle Kearney on Woman Suffrage to insure White
Supremacy--Tribute to Misses Kate and Jean Gordon.

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Letter of greeting to the convention in Washington from Mrs.
Florence Fenwick Miller, suffrage leader in Great
Britain--Delegates appointed to International Alliance meeting in
Berlin--Mrs. Catt's president's address on an Educational
Requirement for the Suffrage--Address of Mrs. Watson Lister of
Australia--Charlotte Perkins Gilman's biological plea for woman
suffrage--Report from new headquarters--Addresses on Women and
Philanthropy by the Rev. Anna Garlin Spencer and Dr. Samuel J.
Barrows--Mrs. Mead on Peace and Mrs. Nathan on The Wage Earner
and the Ballot--Miss Anthony's 84th birthday--A Colorado Jubilee,
speeches by Governor Alva Adams, Mrs. Grenfell and Mrs.
Meredith--Mrs. Terrell asks for moral support of colored
women--Declaration of Principles ad