World's WCTU Convention Opens in Toronto
Philadelphia Times reports Miss Agnes E Slack executive committee meets Oct 22 and 27 as the world convention runs Oct 28 to 26 inclusive. Devotions, memorial service, and sermons by Lady Henry Somerset and Miss Willard frame the Toronto gathering with white ribbon advocates filling pulpits and a banquet planned for delegates.
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Agnes E. Slack
Miss Slack
Agnese, Slack
Miss Greenwood
Miss Willard
iLady Henry Somerset
Toronto
Canada
Philadelphia Times
Secrets of Tying Bows Revealed in New York Shop
A New York Letter describes a Twenty third Street shop where clerks show how to tie decorative bows for waistbands hats and neckwear. The method creates multiple loops and ends with variations including diagonally cut loops and a center knot to prevent unraveling. The piece also quotes Margaret E. Sangster on women in business seeking equal standards rather than special favors.
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Twentythird Street
New York
New England Women Promote Domestic Science in Public Schools
New England women advance cooking and domestic science in public schools. Boston leads with the first school kitchen funded by Mrs. Shaw. Providence Manchester Concord Rhode Island and Connecticut groups expand scientific cooking. Training schools and the Boston YWCA run a six month domestic course in high demand.
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New England
Boston
America
Quincey A. Shaw
Providence
Domestic Training Association
Manchester
N. H
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Concord Pblic
Rhodeland
Connecticut
Vermont
Farmers
Boston Young Women’s Christian Association
Harper’s Bazar
Never Been Big Yet Women in Professions Described
Helen Waterston Moody argues in Scribner's about the limited originality of college educated women in fields such as journalism medicine law and religion. She notes many are capable and competent but mostly derivative and not transformative, contrasting with hopes of sweeping achievements by women.
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Helen Watterson Moody
Scribner’s
The Household Publishes a Century Toast Response
A New Century club luncheon toast and Mrs. Edward Wetherill's witty reply become famous. The Household presents the bona fide toast and response praising men as husbands fathers brothers and lovers, while noting their faults but continuing to love them.
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New Century Club
Edward Wetherill
Should the Services of Women Be Recognized by the State
Victorian era essay excerpts discuss equal access to honors for women in science art literature and politics while opposing a separate female order. It argues women deserve eligibility for all men’s awards to reveal talent and merit, with motto honor not honors. Also includes a Cretan dialogue noting caution and secrecy through revolutions.
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Victoria Woodhull-Martin
Castoro Volodhaki
The Miss and Mrs Debate on Women’s Freedom
A 1900s reflection argues married women face social restraints from church state and society, while single women enjoy liberty and achievement. It champions independence of the single life and questions the dignity implied by titles Miss and Mrs. insisting the free woman defines herself beyond labels.
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Eliza Archard Conner
Women's Suffrage Question in the Boston Christian Register
The piece argues thousands of women are qualified to vote and pay taxes without representation. It questions whether the state can deprive them of citizenship rights and if both willing men and women should be proscribed from voting over suffrage value.
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Boston Christian Register
Miss Bertha Stoneman Appointed Botany Professor Abroad
Miss Bertha Stoneman, Cornell botany PhD 1895, appointed professor of botany at Cape Colony’s Huguenot College in South Africa. She sailed from New York on July 24. A Jamestown High School graduate, she earned bachelor, master, and doctor degrees and a professorship before turning thirty. She is niece of Miss Kate Stoneman of Albany.
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Bertha Stoneman
Botanic
Cornell University
Cape Colony
South Africa
New York
Stoneman
Jamestown
N. Y
Quote from Frances Willard on gender roles and unity
A mid-century reflective quote argues that the test of the twentieth century is women’s enfranchisement and men’s exaltation, asserting no inherent antagonism between genders. It states every woman is a daughter and every man a son, uniting humanity as a single river of blood and battery of brain.
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Miss Frances Willard
Boston Woman Fights Medieval Prison Abuses
Mrs Florence Sparrel of Boston is praised as one of the bravest women of the century for attacking abuses in American prison systems. She has helped end practices like bread and water and solitary confinement in many cases and advocates humane treatment to spare prisoners from darkness.
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Florence Sparrel
Boston
America
Man Aims for Perfect Nerve Amid Daily Trials
Mr Billops vows to preserve constant tranquility each day despite breakfast, children, work, and home interruptions. He says trials arise in unexpected forms, testing his calm, and he practises impervious imperturbability and steady nerves to reach a peaceful frame.
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New York Sun
The Women of Guiana
The wife of the cooy in Guiana is described as highly enviable for her wealth derived from her husband's earned payments. She converts funds into personal trinkets worn by the wife, creating the family cash wealth and ensuring safety as long as she wears them. The women are praised for beauty with straight features bright eyes and graceful figures, dressed in soft fabrics with rich colors and eastern styles.
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Guiana
French Women Artists Petition Equal Admission Terms
French women artists and sculptors petition the School of Fine Arts to be admitted on the same terms as men, seeking equal access to instruction, facilities, and opportunities at the institution.
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The
School of Fine Arts
Eight Thousand Women Heads of Mercantile Houses in Paris
In Paris eight thousand women are identified as heads of mercantile houses, reflecting a notable presence of female leadership in the city’s commerce. This demographic detail highlights social and economic roles for women in the capital.
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Paris
Time Table Corrected June 27 1897 Trains West and East
Time table lists trains westbound from Belmont Weston Wayland Sudbury South Sudbury Wayside Inn Rockbottom Hudson and others with morning and afternoon departures daily and Sunday notes. It also shows trains eastbound from Northampton Ware Barre Jefferson West Boylston South Clinton Berlin Hudson Rockbottom Wayside Inn South Sudbury East Sudbury Weston Waltham Belmont Boston with similar frequency and stops on signal.
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Boston
I Belmont
Whim
Ous Albam
Weston
P.m
Wayland
Sudbury
South Sudbury
Wayside Inn
Rockbottom
Hudson
Sunda
M. Sea
Marsh
South Clinton
Bay
Wesston
Sundae P.m. Ae
Jefferson
Orth
Mare
P. i . Ton
Northampton
Ware
Barre
West Boylston
Berlin
A.m. South Bolton
A. m. Hudson
A. m. Rockbottom
A.m. East Sudbury
A.m. Ayland
A. m
A. m. Belmont
A.m
A. m. Boston
Oakdale
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New York Sunday World
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Wook Binding
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Shawmut Ave
Marlboro, Mass
Grover Graham
C. D. Hunter
Dav Ggist
Robert W. Carter
Charles H
Maynard
Assabet
Peoples Dry Goods Company
Maynard, Mass
Boston & Matinee Southern Division
Massachusetts
Union Passenger Station
Causeway Street
Daniel W. Sanborn
Dana J. Flanders
W. G. Bean
Fitchburgh Railroad
G.pla
Marlboro Sun
South Acton
Whitman’s Crossing
Marlboro
A.M. P.M
Zeeber
Marboro
Whitman Crossing
Clement C. Gaines
Poucrxecpsic
New York, New Haven
Hartford Railroad
OLD Colony System
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P.m. Sun
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