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| "Buns to Boost Suffrage," Oregonian, June 10, 1912, 10. |
As the Oregonian reported, Esther Pohl and colleagues made plans to sell "sandwiches and light refreshments" during the lunchtime hours to crowds at the parade during Rose Festival Week.
A blog by Kimberly Jensen, Professor of History and Gender Studies at Western Oregon University, with a focus on my research and writing projects in women's history. My current research is for a book project tentatively titled “Civic Borderlands: Oregon Women’s Claims to Citizenship and Civil Liberties, 1913-1924”
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Sunday, June 17, 2012
Esther Pohl and the Suffrage Lunch Wagon
June 1912 in Portland featured the Rose Parade and Esther Pohl and her colleagues in the Portland Woman's Club Suffrage Campaign Committee wanted to use the opportunity to publicize the cause of woman suffrage.
As the Oregonian reported, Esther Pohl and colleagues made plans to sell "sandwiches and light refreshments" during the lunchtime hours to crowds at the parade during Rose Festival Week.
As the Oregonian reported, Esther Pohl and colleagues made plans to sell "sandwiches and light refreshments" during the lunchtime hours to crowds at the parade during Rose Festival Week.