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Suffrage: the state frame, and a local absence printed as such

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To January 1920 · local test negative

No suffrage organisation, meeting, speaker, or petition in North Liberty is named in any source reached. The frame is the state's: Indiana women voted in part under the state's brief partial-suffrage grant of 1917 and its loss in the courts, and Indiana ratified the Nineteenth Amendment in a special session in January 1920. Inside that frame, this town's record is silent at the strength of the searches run — the same honest shape the floor records for Mishawaka, where the suffrage record is a county frame with a named local absence. The absence banks as a named gap, not a verdict that the town's women took no part: the North Liberty News, publishing through the whole fight from 1895, is the settler, and its columns for 1910–1920 have not been read for this question.

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Source: Suffrage: the state frame, and a local absence printed as such, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/north-liberty/womens-history/suffrage-the-state-frame-and-a-local-absence-printed/