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We will mark the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution this June.  Before that women and men all over the country had spent years trying to get individual states to allow women to vote.  By 1914, woman suffrage was in effect in only

For many years the Junior Dispatch page was published on Saturdays in the York Dispatch. Pupils of fourth through ninth grades could submit their writing and art through their teachers. Children could contribute “stories, photos, cartoons, drawings, articles, poetry, editorials, jokes, or other types of materials,” as long as they

September wouldn’t seem like September if I didn’t do at least one post on the York Fair. Instead of starting with the file boxes of York Fair materials at the York County History Center and/or local newspapers of the past, this time I thought I would look at another source.