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kites flown to advertise the meetings. Mrs. H. S. Luscomb had
presented a kite big enough to hold up a banner six feet wide by forty
deep. The campaigners were resourceful. At Nantasket, when forbidden
to speak on the beach, they went into the water with their Votes for
Women banner and spoke from the sea to the audience on the shore.

1910. Among the speakers at the Festival in May were Mrs. Frances
Squire Potter, former Professor of English at the University of
Minnesota; Professor Max Eastman of Columbia University, secretary of
the New York Men's League for Woman Suffrage, and Professor Henry S.
Nash of the Episcopal Theological School. At the State annual meeting
in Lowell, October 27, 28, Philip Snowden, M. P., of England was a
speaker. In connection with the convention Mrs. Park spoke before the
Woman's Club; Rabbi Fleischer before the Board of Trade; Miss Alice
Carpenter at the Congregational Church in Tewksbury; four factory
meetings were held; the suffrage slides were exhibited twelve times at
the Merrimac Theater; Miss Foley and Miss Anne Withington addressed
seven trade unions; 27,000 fliers were distributed and four street
meetings held.

An eight-weeks' summer campaign of open-air meetings was conducted
through the great industrial cities of eastern Massachusetts, with
from four to six regular and occasional special speakers. Three
Englishwomen, Miss Margaret G. Bondfield, Miss M. M. A. Ward and Miss
Emily Gardner, reinforced the American speakers, Miss Foley, Mrs.
FitzGerald, Mrs. Glendower Evans, Miss Emily Pierson of Connecticut,
and others. In each city, besides the outdoor meetings, there was some
special feature; in two, garden parties; in Brockton, the women joined
the circus parade, driving in a decorated team and giving out fliers.
In Fall River they got two popular stores to wrap a colored flier in
every parcel. In Taunton they had an evening band concert on the
Common, accompanied with red fire and speeches. In Lawrence Miss Foley
made a balloon ascension and showered down rainbow literature upon an
eager crowd. Several times the women spoke from the vaudeville stage
and showed colored lantern slides. They spoke in parks and pleasure
resorts and outside the factories as well as in the streets and at one
Yiddish and one French meeting. They held 200 meetings and talked to
about 60,000 persons. Afterwards they held outdoor meetings in and
about Boston and sent an automobile of speakers and li