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Wichita Eagle
Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas
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Mrs. Emma Beckwith, a middle-aged attractive and fearless woman, is seriously campaigning for mayor of Brooklyn to advance women's roles in government, including school boards, police, prisons, street cleaning, and inspections of tenements, factories, and markets. Her ballots are on pink paper; local boys taunt her with 'Whoa, Emma!'
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Brooklyn is not greatly torn up over the canvas of Mrs. Emma Beckwith for mayor, but the lady herself asserts that she is in deadly earnest about it. She says her plans, if elected, are to help women. She would like to have women on the school board, in the police courts, police stations, and prisons. Among other things Mrs. Beckwith thinks that women can do is to clean the streets. She considers a broom a proper implement for woman. She also especially desires women to be appointed inspectors of tenement houses, factories and markets. She is a woman of middle age, and is spoken of as attractive and fearless. Bad Brooklyn boys annoy her by singing "Whoa, Emma!" in front of her house. Her ballots will be printed on pink paper.
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Mrs. Emma Beckwith is running for mayor of Brooklyn and is in deadly earnest about it. Her plans if elected include helping women by placing them on the school board, in police courts, police stations, and prisons. She believes women can clean the streets with brooms and should be appointed inspectors of tenement houses, factories, and markets. She is a woman of middle age, attractive and fearless. Bad Brooklyn boys annoy her by singing 'Whoa, Emma!' in front of her house. Her ballots will be printed on pink paper.