Flora Braddock of Tuolumne County Dares the Wild
The San Francisco Examiner profiles Flora Braddock, a 19 year old woman living alone in a remote Tuolumne canyon. She dresses in bloomers, hunts bears, and favors independence over societal norms. She supports mining claims near Sugar Pine and plans a simple, self reliant cabin if wealth comes.
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Toulumne
Nature
Sierras
Flora Braddock
Flora
Christendom
Examiner
North Fork
Tuolumne River
Confidence
Tuolumne County
Sugar Pine
Happiness of College Women and Marriage Prospects
A teacher argues college education increases a woman's happiness in marriage. She will choose partners more wisely, resist ennui, and gain self sufficiency. An educated pair fosters intellectual companionship and mutual respect, enabling a balanced home life through frank discussion.
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Elms School
Eld
Mass
America
Chicago Swedish Women’s Equality Club Leads in United States
The Chicago group, the Swedish American Women’s Equality Association, aims to advance Swedish American women through education, culture, and social progress. With 70 members, they meet in members’ homes to overcome family prejudices and plan to expand to other Swedish communities across cities and the nation.
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Chicago
United States
Stockholm
Chicago Times-Herald
Club meets monthly for paper read and discussion
The group gathers monthly with a member presenting a paper followed by oral discussion. Last year topics focused on home life child education and topics of interest to mothers. This year the club expands to a wider literary and educational range.
Elaborate and Plain Gown Styles Highlight This Season
Two distinct gown styles appear this season, the elaborate and the severely plain. The plain option includes smooth faced or vicuna cloth with black being favored, featuring a shaped skirt, a braiding adorned coat, and a mouse colored velvet waistcoat. The other option uses rough vieuna cloth with multiple braids, a Russian blouse coat, and reseda green velvet lining, as described in Harper's Bazar.
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Hirper
Evolution of Southern Women in the Gilded Age
Godey’s Magazine notes a dramatic shift from 1860 to 1897 as southern women enter wage earning work post Civil War. The piece praises increased physical and mental strength, self reliance, and independence, while recounting the upheaval of emancipation, ruined fields, and freed slaves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New England
Maron and
Dixon
German progressive women split into factions under Willard plan
Berlin Letter to Chicago Record describes Fran Schulrath Caur leading activists who sought reform in Germany. Hannah Whitehall Smith inspired discontent to empower women, while Mary D. Willard set up parlor meetings that formed rival groups focusing on charity education and politics.
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Fran Schulrath Caur
Progressive Women of
Germany
Hannah Whitehall Smith
Berlin
Frau Caur
Mrs. Smith
Chicago
Miss Kate B Fraser Returns From Varna Relief Work
Miss Kate B Fraser has come back to America after a year aiding 6000 Armenian refugees in Varna Bulgaria. The effort was largely supported by the Society of Friends in Great Britain and followed Dr Grace N Kimballs Van relief model. Fraser will stay a year for rest before resuming school work in Van.
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Kate B. Fraser
Grace N. Kimball
Van
America
Varna
Bulgaria
Society of Friends
Great Britain
Kimball
Women education in Toronto university faces failure
The piece argues that the plan for higher education of women in Canada is failing. It notes that Toronto University admitted women ten years ago and predicted men would become a minority, but suggests the scheme did not succeed as hoped.
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Canada
Toronto University
The
For
Female student share declines in Russia and Berlin events
The report notes the female student percentage dropping from 20 to just over 10 percent of total attendance. It also recounts a visit by a Russian delegation of women physicians to Professor Virchow in Berlin thanking him for allowing Russian women access to his lectures and labs when German universities barred female students.
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Toronto
Virchow
Berlin
Russia
Waterbury Women Back Short Skirt Move
The Waterbury Connecticut Women’s club has passed resolutions to adopt short skirts for street gowns. It is hoped that within a year the skirt may become as common and practical as the current bicycle costume.
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Women’s Club of
Waterbury, Conn
Eels Fed by Pebble Sound Trick on Caribbean Isle
A West Indian tale describes an old man who used paired pebbles to summon eels by sound. The eels learned to associate the clink with food, drawing crowds, until natives later copied the trick to capture the eager fish.
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West Indies
New York
Quoting kindness ends with a shocking reveal on a train
A compassionate traveler urges rest but a gruff passenger resists until a jailbird confession slips out. The tense exchange ends with the man handcuffed, revealing ten years in the pen to a stunned fellow passenger.
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L Owly
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Time Table Corrected Oct 4 1897 Trains West and East
Corrected railroad schedule lists multiple inbound and outbound east and west trains with times for Boston Belmont Waltham Weston Wayland and many other stops. Includes notes on stopping rules and names Daniel W. Sanborn Dana J. Flanders W.G. Bean as officials.
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Boston
Belmont
P. m
Wayland
East Sudbury
South Sudbury
Wayside Inn
Rockbottom
Berlin
South Clinton
West Boylston
Oakdale
Jefferson
Barre
Ware
A. m
Northampton
South Bolton
A. m. Hudson
A.m. Rockbottom
A. m. South Sudbury
A.m. East Pote
A.m. Ayland
A.m. Weston
A.m. Waltham
A. m. Belmont
A.m
A.m. Boston
Daniel W. Sanborn
Dana J. Flanders
W.G. Bean
Supe
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Vienna
J.rufus Wales
Shawmut Ave
Marlboro, Mass
Grover Graham
C. D. Huinter
Drvaarsr
Robert W. Carter
Charles H. Jeons
Maynard
Assabet
Cond “Company
Boston & Maine Railroad
Southern Division
Central
Massachusetts
UNION
Causeway Street
Hitchbure
Rarlboro Branch
G. Pla
Marlboro
Eeee
South i Acton
Whitman's Crossing
Thy
Hudson
Uction
Whitman’s Crossing
South Acton
Marboro
Whitman Crossing
J. R
A.M. P
Barking
MATL
Clement C. Gaines
Poucuxeersie
New Haven
Hartford Railroad
OLD Colony System
Northboro
M. Sun
Sun
Clinton
Leominster
Southboro
Framingham
Acton
Lowell
Sudbury
P. m. Sun
A.m. Return
So. Framingham
P.m. Sun
Mansfield
E. G. Allen
A.C. Kendall
Fitchburgh Railroad
Hlcosac Tunnel
Troy
Albany
Saratoga
Lake George
Adirondack
Catskill Mountains
Syracuse
Rochester
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Hamilton
Cleveland
Detroit
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St. Louis
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Brandon
Middleburg
Vergennes
Burlington
S1 Albans
St. Johns
Ogdensburg
Ottawa
Montreal
Quebec
Fitchburge
Washington Street
Fitchburg Railroad
Watson
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