Women enter many fields. Brooklyn railways lead
The Brooklyn elevated railway system may replace men with women as ticket agents, arguing cheaper and equally courteous service. The piece notes women have surged into clerical, teaching, and skilled trades, with growth in typewriters, telegraph work, and lecturers, while men face a need to focus on fields they can still dominate. it cites New Zealand voting records showing high female turnout as evidence of expanding female participation.
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Brooklyn
New York
New York Sun
Miss Romola Tynte Star of New York Drawing Rooms
Miss Romola Tynte the aesthetic woman of Oscar Wilde's circle has sustained her reputation as a charming recitationist and Delsarte disciple. Her spiritual face was immortalized by Poynter in a head of Christ for St Paul’s dome in Rome. She is portrayed by Landt and Edwin Long and Fr ank Topham in notable paintings and is the daughter of an English clergyman born in County Wicklow Ireland.
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Romola Tynte
Diana of Christ
Frank Topham
Romola
Miss Tynte
County Wicklow
Ireland
New York Advertiser
First Woman to Enter Holy Orders Sets Path for Enfranchisement
Ada H. Kepley editor notes that Unitarians and Universalists uphold equal rights for women under divine and civil law. Aurora Buckner of Effingham will enter Lombard University next year to study for the ministry, the first young woman in the nation to pursue holy orders, encouraging further progress.
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Ada H. Kepley
Friend of Home
Effingham, Ils
Unitarians
Universalists
Aurora Buckner
Lombard University
Deaconess Idea Sparks Methodist Meeting in Atlanta
The meeting of the Methodist preachers in Atlanta Georgia heard Rev Howard Cramley advocate deaconesses in the church saying women do good work and deserve the title. Conservative members objected but the move is viewed as a matter of time before Atlanta Methodists adopt deaconesses like churches elsewhere.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Howard Cramley
Methodist Church of
Boston Woman's Journal
Mrs Platt backs suffrage as convention nears
As the constitutional convention approach looms the suffrage effort grows with continued meetings and new signatures. Mrs Thomas C Platt wife of the Republican leader adds her indorsement. Labor groups push a petition book of labor society endorsements to show broad support. The anti suffrage branch opens a protest signing site at Brancard's 150 West 125th Street.
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Platt
Thomas C. Platt
Committee On Labor Organizations
Hotel
Waldorf
Brancard's
West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street
New York
Queen of Society Dies in Portland After Turbulent Life
Mrs. George H. Williams of Portland Oregon, once married to a U S senator and later attorney general, rose to social prominence before her husband's rise and their public retreat. She pursued the dream of him becoming chief justice, then faded into religious fanaticism and fasting before her death.
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George H. Williams
Portland
United States
Oregon
Supreme Court
Kansas City Star
Elegant boarding school flourishes on Fifth Avenue
A New York World report describes a Fifth Avenue boarding school for girls teaching elegance through dress, rhetoric, and refined conduct. A high paid visiting teacher leads lessons, then writes follow up letters praising and critiquing students. guests attend meals and theater, reflecting strict etiquette training.
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Fifth Avenue
Park
New York World
Why the Wants to Vote Woman Suffrage Talk in Brooklyn
Mrs. S. L. Baldwin urged female suffrage at First Place Methodist church Brooklyn. A former China missionary she argued against class legislation and challenged mothers to claim rights equal to any animal caregiver.
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S. L. Baldwin
First Place Methodist Episcopal Church
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Eagle
Equal Suffrage backs woman trustee nomination at Illinois University
The Chicago Inter Ocean endorses the Equal Suffrage association’s demand for a woman to be named trustee of the state University of Illinois. It argues a educated American woman is as fit as any man, including alien-born newcomers, to oversee the ballot and university affairs. The paper notes the association has entered the campaign early and will remain active.
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Chicago Inter Ocean
Equal Suffrage Association
State University of Illinois
Women receive certificates at New York law class closing
Chancellor Mc Cracken awarded certificates to 29 women at the University of the City of New York. Mrs Scudamore spoke on The Married Woman and questioned why bachelors and married men lack similar distinctions. Frances Willard and Lady Henry Somerset plan to collect eight million signatures for a world temperance petition aboard a special steamboat circling the globe.
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University of the City of New York
McCracken
Frances Willard
Henry Somerset
London
WORKING WOMEN AND THE PINKHAM CURE PROMISE
A special piece urges women to seek Lydia E. Pinkham’s vegetable compound for a range of female ailments from ovarian trouble to uterine displacement. It claims the product strengthens muscles, eases backache and nervous symptoms, and offers empathetic support from a woman to another.
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Lydia FE. Pinkham
The Clever Dog Toots Opens a Door
In a Popular Science Monthly note a dog named Toots shows problem solving by manipulating a spring loaded fly door. He learns to press and retreat to gain freedom, using momentum to open a gate and avoid pinching his tail, a feat likened to a bright two year old child.
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Toots
Popular Science Monthly
Spiders Respond to Tuning Fork Stimulus in Experiments
English naturalist Mr. Pocock reports spiders such as Epeira diadema and amaurobius react strongly to vibrating tuning forks held near their webs. Some drop, strike, or climb toward the instrument, while others retreat, prompting debate on whether sound or air vibration attracts them. Meanwhile in Bridgeport Mrs. Cornelian Rodgers becomes the first woman to register at the spring election with over 100 women voting under the new law.
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Mr. Pocock
Epeira Diademata
Pocock
Cornelian Rodgers
John Street
Bridgeport
Learn to Think for Yourself and Wisdom Across Ages
A column reflects on Lessing and Madison C. Peters urging balanced judgment. It cites historical leaders like Washington, Napoleon, and Walter Scott, warns against overconfidence, and calls for reform in city life through home and school. It notes civic renewal hinges on educated youth and municipal patriotism.
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Washingto
Napoleon
Lessing
Walter Scott
Rokeby
Hoe Brigade
South Kansas conference endorses equal political rights for women
The south Kansas conference of the M. E. church gathered with 100 to 200 ministers and voted unanimously to aid and support ending the constitutional amendment granting equal political rights to women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Kansas
The
M. E. Church
Ivers and Pond Pianos Offer Widely Accessible Instruments
Ivers Pond Pianos promotes convenient payment plans to place beautiful pianos within reach. A stock of slightly used pianos appeals to economical buyers. Write with your wants and receive entire satisfaction guaranteed. 183 Tremont St Boston.
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Ives«& Pond Piano Co
Tremont St
Boston
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Lydia EK
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Gry
Snouse Girl
Ke Ae Bank
Royal C. Taft
J. W. Vernon
Royal c. C. Taft
John W. Danielson
Mauran
Edward D. Pearce
Ferne E. Richmond Horation
Capbell Uel‘r. Dorranor Frederic
Raparsi
Brothers
Madison C. Peters
Mudie
Boston Home Eagle
Dr Bulls Oui
Sgs
Bull's
Chew Aces Biues, Hs Sra Eco
Ivers & Pond Pianos
Wardwell Lumber GO
Walter Peate
Wood Street
Bristol, R. I
Bradfort Strait
Waldron & Brownell
Bradford Streets
Challen
Spruce St. N. Y
Providence
Rhods Island Charter
P.O. Box
Howe Street
Burnside Street
William HA
G. McGann
Cripple Creek
Colorado
Treasury
H. H. Officer
Sea
Treas
H. R. Lounsbery
Broadway
Hacsesdal
Re. Miscox
Ealy
Dway
Chutio?y Inire Co
Fremont
Ohio
Parker
Uiscox & CO
Epps
McNavy’s
Walter Lowneys
Cor, Hove and State Sts
Bristol
WM. H. Spooner
Thames Street
Old Colony Yard
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