College Women and Modern Life Stir Public Debate
A Cleveland Leader summary quotes Leale Tompkins railing at college women and marriage, while local graduates defend higher education. The piece traces trends in coeducation, size of women’s classes at Smith, Vassar, and Bryn Mawr, and notes women increasingly enter teaching, social work, and various professions. It emphasizes that college experience broadens opportunities whether or not women marry.
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United States
Leale J. Tompking
New York University
National Association of College Graduates
Cleveland Leader
Dollegs
Zeriah Porter
Oberlin College
Zerniah Porter
Middle West
Smith
Vassar
Wellesley
Bryn Mawr
Wells
Bess Philips
Collage For Women
Tompkins
Malcolm McBride
Eixty-ninth Street
Lucia Mcurdy
Yen
Lisa Adelle McKinnie
Kentieth Street
Inez Milholland
England
Snez Tompkins
Inen
Tompkina
Miss Presley
Cleveland
Trousseau for Bridegroom
A Chicago Tribune item recounts a groom to be’s mother arranging a masculine trousseau for him. The package shipped to the bride’s Chicago home contained six union suits, six piping dainty pajamas, and lace edged underwear, provoking shock from the bride’s mother before the gag was revealed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Old Order of
Benedicts
Indiana
Trousseau
Chicago
Harold
Chicago Tribune
His Choice on Divorce Habit Sparks Luncheon Talk
Miss Ellen Terry in New York cites a critic of the rich divorce trend noting children in Newport may have five fathers. She recalls a Newport boy who, asked to choose between his parents, chose the chauffeur, illustrating the emotional cost of such separations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen Terry
New York
Newport
Miss Terry
Robert
Rules of Senate Change Sparks Long Battle Over Procedures
The piece notes Senate rules shifts last session slowed business, with insurgent Republicans seeking changes and Democrats set to gain House control. It cites senatorial courtesy, appointments, and Hughes’s non-candidacy rumors, plus White’s oath by Harlan and Civil War links among Justices Lurton Holmes and Buckner.
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Washington
Senate
House
Chamber
Congress
Repubiicans
The
Supreme Court
Charles E. Hughes
Justice Hughes
Republican Party
Hughes
United Party
United States
Edward Douglass White
Harlan
Supreme Bench
White
Lurton
Simon B. Buckner
Buckner
Fort Donelson
Grant
Lorton
Justice White
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Holmes
Harvard College
Sanborn gains electric lighting plant after eleven months
Iowa news notes a string of items including Fort Dodge Carcus mill fire loss around 40000, new postmasters appointed in Croton and Ames, a fatal injury in Rock Island yards, and political shifts as new officers prepare to take office. Also reported are fires, deaths, a $7000 payment over a railroad wreck, and a notable land sale near Waukee at 180 per acre.
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Sanborn
Fort Dodge Carcus
David S. McDonald
Wyoming
Adeline Harland
Croton
Lee County
W. Scott
P. Hadupholous
Rock Island
Iowa
Tom Berry
Boone
5. E. Andrews
Edward T. White
Mt. Pleasant
Wakeside Presbyterian Church
Sioux City
K. C. Hermanson
Osage
Boone Ministerial Union
Raymond
George F. O'Connell
Harry O’connell
Grinnell
Berty. Gorham
Thomas W. Barnes
W. H. Folson
West Burlington
Albia
H. J. Cramer
W. J. Dearborn
Stone City
Cedar Rapids
Hunters
Johnson County
Hunters’ Association
Des Moines
Davenport
del Gamma
University of Iowa
John C. Parish
State Historical Department
Iowa City
Rock Island Railway Company
Green Mountain
Henry Lelmann
Waterloo
Sedalia
Lehman
Methodist Episcopal Church
Greenfield
Adair County
Liberal League
Wets
Fort Dodge
Woman's Auxiliary
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Son Shoud
George Clinton
Iowa State News
Commonwealth
James F. Mentzer
Knoxville
Millard FF
Stockey
Leon
Charles M. Marshall
Moulton
Arthur S. Burdick
Post Villa
L. M. Bosworth
Ames
William B. Collinson
Oelwein
A. A. Hammond Hay
Jacob Rosser
Waukee
Chas. A. Grubb
4Th and
Chestnut Streets
Atlantic
T. B. Swan
J. B. Rockafellow
Wood & Savery
John H. Wood
BEN U. Wood Co
W. Savery
Sixth and
Chestnut Sts
D. O. Herbert
East Fifth Street
Max Emmert
Musson
Bell
C. G. Clark
DR. R. A. Gamble Opera House
Munson
Rhysidench
Block Bell
Dr. Chas, D. Finley
Chestnut Street
C. L. Campbell
Gillespie Building
A. S. Mullins
W.C. Heers
Smilley’s
Green
G. R. Miller
J. A. Giffen
C. Thurman Furniture Company
Furniture and Undertaking
M. Bailey
Ball
Chestnut St. Atlantic
Butler
M. H. Butler
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