State-Wide, NC - Women are to Vote in North Carolina, 1911

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Women are to Vote in North Carolina

The North Carolina Legislature has passed its first woman suffrage
measure. It is an act to authorize a bond issue by Wrightsville
Beach, the Wilmington seaside resort, for installing a more extensive
sewerage system.

The act provides that in the election every woman owning property
on the beach shall have a vote. Perhaps the members of the Legislature
had heard how the women of New Orleans and of Baton Rouge carried the
elections for improved sewerage in those cities.

North Carolina has no Suffrage Association, although the movement
has become so active in the adjoining State of Virginia. 

But in these days woman suffrage is in the air.

The Womans Journal

Source: The Lexington Herald
        June 24, 1911

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