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COLBY PROCLAIMS WOMAN SUFFRAGE; Signs Certificate of Ratification at His Home Without Women Witnesses. MILITANTS VEXED AT PRIVACY Wanted Movies of Ceremony, but Both Factions Are Elated --Wilson Sends Message.

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.--The halfcentury struggle for woman suffrage in the United States reached its climax at 8 o'clock this morning, when Bainbridge Colby, as Secretary of State, issued his proclamation announcing that the Nineteenth Amendment had become a part of the Constitution of the United States. View Full Article in Timesmachine »