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Singerton Snippets

By Ron Singerton Women Vote in Wyoming!
Of course they do, you exclaim. But in
Patent # 465,588, (1891) this time of contested voting it is worth
Remember one of the first things remembering that women’s suffrage
that flew off the supermarket shelves began in Wyoming Territory in 1869,
with the onslaught of Covid 19? Yes, one hundred and fifty- one years ago. It
toilet paper! Perhaps you were was the first region in the U.S. to do so.
wondering (or perhaps not) how this There were only six thousand men and
coveted hygienic necessity came into one thousand women in the territory
being. We know of course, that ancient and Democrat legislators thought that
Romans used sponges. That worked but women voters would boost their
it was not particularly sanitary. One can conservative causes but to their chagrin
still see their stone toilets in former most women voted Republican, the
Roman provinces such as Caesarea in party that championed the abolition of
Israel. No longer used, but they are still slavery and gained increased power
there. following the Civil War. READING: A Great Past Time
The first real toilet paper was In that Victorian age of male
invented in Korea in 589 and big sheets dominance, one might wonder what The Library of Congress has thousands
of it appeared in China for the emperor motivated men to give women the vote?
in 1391 but the first written material One consideration was that it would of books on line - Open to the Public Interested on serving on a jury?
Interested on serving on a jury?
Interested on serving on a jury?
Interested on serving on a jury?
Interested on serving on a jury?
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about toilet paper in Europe was not attract more women to Wyoming, an and FREE to read. GO TO Jur
until 1718. “Gayetty’s Medicated extremely popular idea with very lonely
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Gayetty in the U.S. in 1857 and was still Amendment, 1870) then women should Los Angeles: lacourt.org
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available until the second decade of the be able to do so too.
Twentieth Century. Yes indeed. Shortly after achieving suffrage
women were named to juries and one
However, a fellow named Seth became a justice of the peace. When
Wheeler was the official inventor of the Wyoming applied to become a state, its
necessity and patented it 1871. That was future governor said to congressional
followed by the establishment of the critics, “We will stay out of the Union
Scott Paper Company in Philadelphia one-hundred years rather than come in
nine years later and by 1925 became the without our women!” One hundred
leading toilet paper company in the years is a long time. Wyoming became
world. But there was a problem. the 44 state but universal suffrage for
th
And that was solved by the Northern all women as well as native Americans
Tissue company in 1935 when they did not come until 1920.
figured out how to remove the wood Ron Singerton is the author of
splinters. With aesthetics in mind, in historical novels including “Villa of
1954 they also began to produce it in Deceit,” (ancient Rome) its sequel, “the
color. Some people spend a lot of time Silk and the Sword.” Also are two
doing their business in bathrooms and novels dealing with Twentieth Century
as an author I have wondered about events, “A Cherry Blossom in Winter”
printing novels on the paper, say a (the Russo Japanese war of 1904-5) and
paragraph per sheet, one book per roll. “A Blossom in the Ashes,” World War II
Just an idea for these days when we in the Pacific and the Soviet western
spend so much time at home. front.
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