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frage clubs formed on the Eastern Shore through
the efforts of Miss Gregg and Miss Bradford, National
Organizers. Mrs. Davenport of Rhode Island afterwards
visited those clubs.

Maryland subscribed $50 to the National Association.
This and more were spent in Maryland.
Considerable suffrage literature was distributed
through out the state.

With two states, Utah and Idaho, adopting equal suffrage
in 1896, the out look for our cause is hopeful.
Our President advised our petitioning the next
legislature for school suffrage, as an entering
wedge for full suffrage.

The Cor. Sec. Mrs. Annie R. Lamb read an encouraging
report. Baltimore City reports 72 paid up
members, Sandy Spring 18, Hurlock 17.
At the Annual Meeting of the Baltimore Suffrage
Association, Mr. Lewis Tudor presented
a check for $50 as a gift from the deceased
wife, the late president of the association,
Mrs. Sarah R. Tudor.

The Baltimore Association had employed as
lecturers during the year Mrs. Catt and Miss
Slack of England and thirty-five new
members were added to the association.
The resignation of Mrs. R. J. Bronnell, as Press.

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mbrockway

Mr. Lewis Tudor presented a $50 gift from his deceased wife, Sarah Russell Tudor (1831 - 1894). Sarah Tudor organized the Baltimore Woman Suffrage Association in 1894 and became its president. A beautiful obituary was published in the Quaker Periodical "The American Friend", Volume 3 (1896 Jan - 1896 Dec), Page 45.

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