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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1897
Page
3
Bertha V Thompson, a Chicago Medical College graduate, was named city physician by Mayor Ideson in Oshkosh Wisconsin. She is the first woman to hold the office in the state, after serving as a nurse and teacher before earning her medical degree with high honors.
Mary Nimmo Balentine notes women clerks in the capital report salaries from 600 to 1800 dollars a year. Civil service rules govern appointments and exams, with a portrayal of their bright, capable service and camaraderie amid varied office settings and attire. A companion column praises feminine dress and modest urban fashion in official spaces. The piece also touches on women veterinarians as a growing, well paid field with ample opportunity. The article ends with a memorial note on Kate Field, a cross placed at Mount Auburn beside her family graves and a forthcoming biography by Lillian Whiting.
The article notes that among the 20 000 government clerks in Washington more than 6 000 are women and discusses implications for employment policy and gender roles in public service.
A New York veterinary surgeon offers steady work for a capable woman as an assistant in horse treatment but notes few graduated women in the country. He cites Germany and Russia as having women veterinarians, while England lags.
Mrs. H. J. Cusack of Atchison designs a corn hat that shone like ivory and impressed the town during the annual corn carnival. The piece earned top novelty honors as the most unique and dainty corn festival creation.
Mrs Elizabeth Boynton Harbert resigns as president of the Evanston Illinois Woman's club which she founded eight years ago to devote herself to literary work. She is honored with a fountain in front of Chicago commons inscribed in her name. She is succeeded by Mrs T P Stanwood a Vassar graduate and Evanston school board member.
Lady Ernestine Brudenell Bruce applied to the London board of trade for a yacht master's certificate. She prepared for all required exams but was told that a woman cannot be examined for a master's certificate on the grounds that the word master implies eligibility for men only.
Child widows become chief pupils in a new Fauna kindergarten founded by Pan dita Ramabai, the Hindoo educator who once held the Sanskrit chair at Cheltenham College and then toured Great Britain and America to fund her work.
Berlin reports Mrs Cadwallader Guild has finished a Hermes style marble bust of Princess Helene of Sachsen Altenburg. The sculpture, set on a lofty pedestal in a castle hall, shows intense expression through deep pupil grooves and reflects Guilds skill across painting and sculpture.
The New York Times describes an expansive range of women’s neckwear from satin and plaid ties to four in hand fronts and long wraps. Stocks, ribbons, mull lace, and riding ties in bright scarlet and soft blue and pink flood wardrobes with red and green leading in popularity.
Miss Harriet L. Kilbourne, a Great Barrington native, passed the Berkshire bar exam becoming the first woman to enter that legal circle in the region. She trained in Herbert C. Joyner's office, excels as a stenographer and typist, and reads Blackstone while awaiting broader practice. The note also mentions two male Barrington applicants failing.
Document lists stop rules for trains with procedures on signals and passenger notices. Names Daniel W. Sanborn and Dana J. Flanders appear as railroad officials. W.G. Bean titled Division Superintendent. Indicates stops for Boston passengers and western stations with conductor notice procedures.
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