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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1894
Page
5
A San Francisco woman recounts being seized by an octopus while collecting shells on a coral island near the equator. The creature wrapped around her arms and held fast as tides rose, but two men freed her and killed the monster. The octopus measured seventeen feet from tip to tip, with a parrot like beak and deadly grip.
The New York World highlights Barnard College appointing Miss James Smith as president signaling a shift in women’s higher education leadership. It notes Bryn Mawr and Wellesley under women, while Smith and Barnard push the scholastic extreme, with Agnes Irwin at Harvard Annex and Carey Thomas at Bryn Mawr praised for reform work. The piece contrasts domestic politics of mothers and daughters with revolt themes in society. It also profiles Dr De Julia Holmes Smith’s Chicago medical career and Baltimore Health Journal venture.
A Chicago development shows a woman chosen as a garbage inspector through the Municipal Order league. Officials support the move as women grow active in public affairs, with the new appointee noted for health vigor and a serious, uncomplicated approach to enforcing wagon and waste standards.
The convention is fixed for February 1895 in Washington, with 17 national associations representing about 700 000 women. The executive committee approved dress reform and equal morality standards, and endorsed a bi gender composition for divorce commissions and outreach to governors to urge equal representation.
The piece notes Miss Johnson leads in Cambridge mathematics while overall women’s higher education lags. It warns the Association of Women Lecturers faces insolvency without new subscriptions. Women politicians fund campaigns, with large London meetings led by the Countess of Carlisle, amid hopes for a female suffrage bill later stalled.
Mrs. Zulme E Hearsey of Baton Rouge built a bookstore that became a hub for readers and publishers, oversees sale of New Orleans papers, and runs a thriving florist business. She employs 80 news boys and her son Gaston assists, with strong local reputation and social ties in the postwar era.
London reports describe Mrs. Poulteney Bigelow as magnificent in palest green with emerald velvet. The writer nicknamed Yellow Aster wore white lace and oriental pearls and led in lighting a cigarette, evoking autumn mists and dew pearls around her chosen flower.
Mrs Miles wife of Major General Nelson Miles will succeed General O O Howard in command of the department of the east with headquarters on Governors Island. She is described as a handsome and very charming woman and the lead off remarks indicate a ceremonial role accompanying the change in command.
The New York Journal notes Mrs. Miles, related to Mrs. Cameron wife of the Pennsylvania senator, brings vitality to the local society scene. Her described frontier life promises well known guests and a lively social circle around Governor's Island, including an elegant daughter.
Few observers would guess the Boston poet, Julia Ward Howe, is 75. She appears vigorous and youthful with lively dress and presence, having written poetry for nearly 60 years on nature, humanity, and freedom, at the Columbus statue dedication in Central Park with Dr. Depew.
The London social season attends Mrs Mackay’s latest ball described as not a great success. The Hungarian band played at the marble stairs while Mrs Mackay in plain black velvet with pearls greeted her youngest son. Young Lady Craven wore white satin and silver, and Mrs Walter Winans, wife of the American marksman, was noted as best dressed in pearl white satin.
The article lauds Annie Oakley as a thrifty, skilled marksman and athlete. It notes a $9,000 home bought with earnings from her rifle and steady aim, and praises her grace and stamina, suggesting more women emulate her to reduce reliance on doctors.
In Boston a Boston Transcript reader lauds Miss Irwin for Radcliffe girls recalling Rugby School heroism. Naomi Hayes Moore, deceased in Helena, Ark, funded Ophelia Polk Morry home for orphans in memory of Mia, daughter and Polk kin. The Washington Civil Service Commission admitted women as assistant in vegetable pathology in agriculture with 720 salary. New York reports 20 trained janitresses earning at least 400 yearly, first employed two years ago. Church fashion notes urge prayer book cases to match gowns. Prohibition conventions in California and Illinois and Populist conferences in California Illinois Indiana endorse woman suffrage.
A chronic catarrh description notes offensive breath and ulceration effects followed by bronchitis. Ely's Cream Balm is promoted as the best and only cure after years of use with druggist availability. Separate Russia rail plans discuss Arctic routes and a St Petersburg to Votan link to connect with Transsiberia.
French millionaire Max Lebandy, famed for his 25 000 000 franc fortune, must serve three years in the army as a light cavalry lancer despite hopes of a heart condition delaying service. He plans a portique fete at Maisons Lafitte before being drafted. Additional notes mention a Baltimore bass trombonist and a knee injury cured by Chamberlains Pain Balm.
This feature highlights two women, Mrs. Lillie Meyer of Brooklyn and Mrs. J. E. Dewey of Riverside, California, who report relief from painful menstruation after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Both attest improvements in health and the end of monthly suffering.
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