Destructive Occupations and Suffrage Debate Among Women Clubs
A Boston Globe piece on large versus small women clubs cites Charlotte Emerson Brown of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. It argues large clubs broaden influence and resources, while small clubs risk inactivity. It lists many clubs and notes a shift toward political engagement and legislative influence among women's associations in the U.S. and Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Globe
Charlotte Emerson Brown
General Federation of Women's Clubs
New England
Legion
Mayflower Club
Independent
Women Voters
Bo:ton
Massachusetts School Suffrage Association
Boston Woman's Journal
Woman’s Destructive Occupations Expose Hidden Dangers
In England a league highlights life threatening hazards for women in trades like flax processing and lead work. Dust and chemical exposure cause rheumatism, lung disease, and lead poisoning with workers driving to early deaths. Safeguards include safer processes and substitutes. current practices rely on women for less strength.
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England
C. Mollet
Fur Cape
China
New York Sun
Women Take Prominent Roles in French Postal Service
The French government has appointed many women to trusted posts as clerks at post offices telegraphs and railways and in central administration. Women fill 58 58 provincial post offices 1060 female telegraph clerks 69 towns run telephone stations with 745 employed and 425 in national savings. Railways have been strongest backers adopting women in ticket offices and station duties with major companies including East North Paris Lyon Mediterane Orleans listing large female staff counts.
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France
National Savings
Bes Company
North Company
Paris
Lyon-Mediterranes
Orleans
London’s paving artists: Mrs Coleman leads as first English gentlewoman
Englishwoman Mrs Coleman takes up paving as a living, likely the first of her class to do so. About 800 Londoners draw chalk pictures on pavements to earn pennies, using colored chalks to depict shipwrecks, murders, and current events with talent. The trade once used fixed pitches but crowding and cheaper prints lessen demand. Mrs Coleman averages $1.25 daily on fair days, and stays home when it rains.
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Coleman
London
Woman suffrage petition in South Carolina cited by Aiken Journal
Mrs. Virginia D Young of Fairfax D C inspired by Mrs Josephine K Henry of Kentucky petitions the South Carolina legislature for the right to vote. She argues taxation without representation and governance without consent and condemns being grouped with the insane and criminals. The legislature adjourned without action but the piece praises her work and predicts she would vote wisely.
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Virginia D. Young
Fairfax
D. C
Josephine K. Henry
Kentucky
South Carolina
Young
Aiken Journal and Review
Stowe Praised Despite Mocking Label In Exchange
Joe Howard in New York Recorder defends Harriet Beecher Stowe after a harsh dig calling her a mental wreck. He cites her recent poetic effusion to a friend and criticizes the mockery aimed at the 80-year-old author, urging humility and apology.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Board of Lady Managers Sets Up at Mason Temple
The board of lady managers relocates to a new seven floor suite in the Mason temple with Susan Gale Cook as secretary and Potter Palmer retaining a private room. Virginia Meredith oversees the executive area as the board prepares months of work to settle their business.
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Rand-McNally
Masonic Temple
Susan Gale Cook
Potter Palmer
Virginia C. Meredith
Chicago
Wellington Cape Colony Girls Seminary with 1000 descendants
Cape Town correspondent notes a Wellington seminary in Cape Colony with 20 professors and over 1000 pupils descended from English Dutch and French settlers. The school is self supporting and its pupils have competed successfully at Cape Town in university and government examinations.
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Africa
Wellington
Cape Colony
Alamng
Cape Town
Alma Tadema Family Artists and Daughter Pursues Literature
The New York Journal notes Alma Tadema is a skilled artist and a model for her husband. Their daughter Miss Alma Tadema chooses literature over painting, having submitted manuscripts to editors who called them remarkably brilliant.
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Alma Tadema
New York Journal
Miss Adele Grant Bride of the Earl of Essex Unveils Novelties
Miss Adele Grant, now the Earl of Essex's bride, introduced several novelties at her wedding. The gown featured a silver embroidered dove train that fell from her dress as it stretched its wings across her.
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Adele Grant
Earl of Essex
Two Notable Women Dead in Their Nineties and One Century
Mrs Daubney, possibly the oldest Wesleyan, died at Thornton near Horncastle aged 102. She had been connected with the Wesleyans for 90 years. Also announced is the death of Mrs Elizabeth Oliveria Prescott at 92, eldest granddaughter of Oliver Cromwell, and Chestnut Park’s last bearer of Cromwell’s name.
Chinamen Gift Miss Prendergast in Boston
Chinese residents of Boston present Miss Julia Prendergast a purse with 40 dollars, a box of silk handkerchiefs, and other items. A committee of Chinamen also gives the original subscription paper noting her kindness at the United States commissioner’s office.
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Boston
Julia Prendergast
United States Commissioner’s Office
Miss Prendergast
Commissioner’s Office
Unmon Wealth
Miss Herbert Designs Own Costumes for White HouseEvents
The cabinet lady of the Navy secretary's household favors pale lavender pink and blue with white and is often called the woman in white. She designs many outfits and wore a white moire antique gown at a White House New Year reception.
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Miss Herbert
Secretary of the Navy
White House
Washington Post
Garter Fad Predicts Marriage Offers in a Year
A New York Fashion Letter notes a fad where girls make brides wear a garter to be married within a year. It mentions a Jersey City bride who wore many garters at her wedding last month and jokes that the groom has nothing charmed to wear.
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Jersey City
New York
Swell young woman wears sealskin gloves in winter
A witty item from the New York Mail and Express notes a swell young woman wearing big sealskin gloves over kid gloves to keep her hands warm this winter. She slips her car fare into the gloves, implying conductors are underpaid and need action, while praising the gloves as very comfortable.
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New York Mail and Express
Bride Adornment Traditions In Early 20th Century trends
The bride of today wears either a white ostrich feather fan or a prayer book bound in suede moire ivory or vellum. A drooping bouquet is fastened with long satin ribbons. One or two pearl or diamond ornaments may be used though very young brides look best without.
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New York Advertiser
Woman Horse Trader of Atchison Gains Noted Reputation
An Atchison Globe item notes that the city has eight women horse traders with one prominent figure who daily visits the vacant ground near Eighth and Commercial where farmers gather to swap horses. She is praised as a fair judge who often wins trades.
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Atchison
Atchison Globe
Vassar Alumni Studying Across Elite U S Institutions
Six Vassar College alumni attend the Yale postgraduate program while four recent graduates study medicine. One medical student joins Johns Hopkins female medical classes, and another graduate pursues law at the University of the City of New York.
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Vassar College
Yale
Johns Hopkins
University of the City of New York
Miss Julia Stimers. woman lithographer at Columbian Exposition
New York News notes Miss Julia Stimers as the only American woman with a lithographic exhibit at the Columbian exposition. She is the pioneer woman lithographer in New York, employed by a leading firm and paid the same as men for equivalent work.
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Julia Stimers
New York
New York News
Woman Fashion Trend and Notes on Suffrage Moves
A society note roundup covers a purple ribbon bodice magnet myth, university appointments by women in Michigan England and Wales, suffrage wins in Colorado, travels of Jennie Taylor with Bishop Taylor, and advances in precision threading for watch screws along with Mrs Langtry’s forthcoming novel A Jersey Lily.
Notable Figures From A Far Flung Globe
The Listener notes a parade of prominent figures and claims: John Goodbaby J oey of Orono, Prince Bismarck’s English tastes, President Dole and Senator Peffer, Gladstone’s tea, Baron Stackelberg’s Worms island, Rothschild’s daily soup, Stephen J. Field aged 77, Senator Hunton aged 72, John Patrick Hopkins Chicago’s new mayor, Mgr Dominico Jacobini as papal pope candidate, twins Richard and John McGriff aged 90, Mgr Satolli and his birds, General B E Cook’s 66 years of jewelry store, Alfred Pinchot forestry pioneer for Vanderbilt, Isham G Harris’s law career, umbrella-less congressmen Kilgore and Cockrell, Billy McGarrahan’s long claim pursuit, Labouchere the boulevardier, George Stock’s stage turn, and Senator Cameron’s interview ban.
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Prince Bismarck
Dole
Hawaii
Peffer
Gladstone
John Patrick Hopkins
Chicago
Windy
Pope
Leo XIII
Mgr
Dominico Jacobini
Lisbon
Richard McGriff
Deerfield
John McGriff
Geneva
Ind
George W. Vanderbilt
North Carolina
Isham G. Harris
Tennessee
Congress
Congressman Kilgore
Texas
Senator Cockrell
Labouchere
Flaneura
Boulevardiers
George Stock
Schirmer & Stock
Cincinnati
Mr Stock
Cameron
Pennsylvania
Senate
Ailance
The Jewel Casket Jewelry Display Highlights
A Jewelers Circular overview describes olivine and diamonds forming a quaterfoil brooch, chrysoprase sleeve buttons with diamonds, a matchbox with a secret photo space, a diamond spray with amethyst quartz, and diamond buckles. It notes pearl rings and brooches, a bowknot tiara, Louis Seize brooch designs, and expressive pieces featuring a lizard and a monkey with watches.
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Louis
Railway Rumbles and New Bentonville Line
English railway porters gain an $800000 annual raise. Arkansas plans a new railway named the Bentonville Fort Gibson and Southwestern. The western hemisphere holds 199489 miles of rail, 54 percent of world mileage, out of 8 percent of global population.
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Arkansas
Bentonville, Fort Gibson
Soutwestern
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Europe
Philadelphia Press
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Richardson
Eaton
University of Michigan
Dental Department
Alice Cooke
Owens College
Manchester
Henry Somerset
North
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British Women’s Temperance Association
Wellesley College
Suffrage Association of Colorado
Jennie Taylor
Bishop Taylor
John Goodbaby
Joey
Orono
Bull
Ayer
W. H. Williams
Crook City
D. Ayer
Bristol
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Wasuinarter
D.C
Wpthis Company
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Incorporated
Capital
Jralting
J Potter
N.A. Reed, Jr
J Campbell
W_M Kavanaugh
Little Rock
Ark
LT. Rich
J F Turner
Phiies Bene Iy
Y. R. Payne
Wattle Creek
Mic
WM. H. Spooner
Thames Street
Old Colony Yar
Waldron & Brownell
Bradford Street
Vnew Management
Bequist
BE. T. Hathaway
Ile
Aaa
Bhoko., Inc
P. Capital
U.S
Mass
Chatterbox
Estes & Lauriat
Wiliam H. and
Oliver G. McGann
Cripple Creek
Colorado
H. H. Officer
Sec
Treas
H.R. Lounsbery
Broadway
F. Misco Waly
Bidway
Contr Kyire Co
Fremont
Ohio
Epps
Ely
Elyy’ Gem Bal
Bae Apes Ym
USA
ELY Brothers
Warren St
Arabia
San Francisco
Birmingham
Sheffield
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