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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1894
Page
5
A column covers Mrs Amelia Bloomer purity and politics and woman suffrage. Rev T De Witt Talmage reports from New Zealand praising women voters, noting high turnout and arguing suffrage may improve politics. It references the Duchess of Teck's attire and reception in London.
A clever Chicago woman, Miss Ashburn, plans entertaining parties for children. She designs games and dances, prepares refreshments, and oversees table layout. Her love for kids and skill with inclusive activities keep shy children engaged, with inventive touches like a fishing pond finale where parcels hide toys. The Boston Woman's Journal notes her lively leadership and musical ability.
Report notes the Duchess of York and her mother at St Moritz coping with crowds by blending in with locals. The royals are seen strolling the springs in Serge skirts, coats, and sailor hats, listening to bands and browsing jewelers without fanfare.
A London milliner showcases a Gainsborough style velvet hat described as perfect for winter. The design features black velvet, curled ostrich tips, passementerie bands, and a prominent jet buckle with a left tilt and velvet bow. Sold to a New York buyer, orders noted for American markets.
The Chicago Post notes Amelia Bloomer who lived in Council Bluffs and popularized the bifurcated dress after publishing a description in 1851 while in Seneca Falls. Alongside Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a temperance paper The Lily, Bloomer helped spread the style later named for her.
A Western press report asserts that extending voting rights to women has not caused disorder. Judges and observers note that moral or cultured women do not dominate or disrupt elections. Municipal suffrage experiences show good women outnumbering bad, deterring attempts to sway votes.
The Travelers' club of western Pennsylvania, an all women group active in Allegheny City, studies France this year focusing on influential women and topics like Environment versus Heredity and municipal reform. Miss Jennie Hindman was re elected president for a third term, sister to suffrage worker Miss Matilda Hindman, as the club plans Italy for next year.
A tall stylish woman enters a Cortland street ferry in Jersey City around 4 pm and has her boots polished on the forward deck while passengers observe. An Italian bystander is captivated, and two businessmen remark on gender roles as the scene unfolds aboard the boat bound for Cortland street slip.
Several women take orders for Christmas presents offering Sowing plants and a range of options. Customers choose rubber plants palm trees or calla lilies with blue pottery, paid at full pot price plus a nominal plant charge. The helper’s commission covers care.
Mr J M Barrie confessedly married that he might use hairpins to clean his pipes but laid down his pipe at the request of his wife. The move follows Barrie's illness blamed on persistent smoking and his daily all day habit.
A money scented button aims to lure kept coins from purses with sandalwood fragrance. New Jersey approves nine school trustees with three women elected. New York reports twenty or more trained janitresses earning four hundred dollars yearly. A Louisiana act bans female liquor sellers. Sixteen women join the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Frances E Willard receives a doctor of laws from Ohio Wesleyan. Mrs Frances Klock of Denver becomes the first Republican woman nominated for a state legislature.
Gertrude Atherton argues in the New York Sun against the “advanced women” and their supposed ugliness. She contends beauty influences life chances, warns of a societal decline if beauty fades, and foresees the suffrage and reform movements eroding art and nature.
Miss Lamson and Miss Judson, prominent Cleveland young women, astonished friends by joining the Salvation Army. They have moved into barracks in Cleveland and will receive final instructions from General Booth after giving up privileged homes. Miss Lamson's father is a judge. Miss Judson's family is wealthy.
An advice piece extols regular bodily function for women and promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for menstrual irregularities and female illnesses. It cites Mrs. J. A. Rice of Florence Kentucky sharing relief after using the product and asserts widespread effectiveness for women.
The Chicago Record weighs a changing view on women’s dress as breeches and bifurcated garments gain ground. It notes Saratoga’s active women favor practical outfits for work and safety, from Turkish trousers to jockey breeches, and foresees knickerbocker styles expanding to biking, bathing, gym, and business wear.
Edward Burroughs, president of the New Jersey State Road Improvement association, told the national good roads conference at Asbury Park that stone roads let lighter teams do the work. He cited a shift from four horses to two and from 50 baskets to 1265 baskets to market, noting roads are 16 feet wide, 8 inches deep, well packed and drained.
In a London Tit-Bits sketch a speaker notes Gibbs bought a country paper and he works in ready made clothing. Dibbs quips that making newspapers costs nothing, prompting a light exchange before they part.
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