Woman establishes new profession for women in market work
The article profiles Miss E V Cornelius forging a career in professional marketing for fashionable Philadelphia households. It notes her daily rounds, menu planning, and serving decor while praising female enterprise and perseverance amid 19th century barriers. It also touches on related 1872 fire losses and college fund implications for Simmons estates.
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Philadelphia
E. V. Cornelius
Cornelius
Endowment Fund For Free Female College In Boston
Boston endowment fund in the hands of the 8s seeks to establish a large free female college. John Simmons, a leading merchant who died in 1870, left real estate and money to Marion and Alvina Simmons. The will provides trusts for the daughter’s life and passes accumulations and corpus to the college, with a $50 000 nucleus fund for building.
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Boston
John Simmons
Simmons
Marion
Franklin and
Arch Streets
Water and
Devonshire Streets
Tremont Street
Alvina
Franklin-and
Hawley Ev
National Association of Women Typists Forming in Chicago
Two years ago a group of Chicago women stenographers and typewriters formed a 13 member association that has grown to 150. The National Association of Women Stenographers is incorporated and planning a sick benefit providing three months of support and sympathy to members alone in illness. They meet quarterly at Central Music Hall and study parliamentary law. Miss M. E. Orr is an honorary member. Nettie McLaughlin is president. Harriett Shinn and McLaughlin will represent the group at the national council in Washington. Shinn will open a discussion on Woman as a Factor in the Modern Business World. Chicago Record.
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National Association of Women Steviographers
Charles Henrotin
Henry Shepard
Central Music Hall
M. E. Orr
Nettie McLaughlin
Chicago
Harriett Shinn
National Council of Women
Washington
National Council
Miss Shinn
Progress of women worldwide in 1894 highlights gains and limits
Mrs. Warner Snead, president of the International Woman's union, notes universal progress across nations and fields with no sex-based advantage, while social order remains stable. She cites women entering medicine in Turkey Persia Syria Japan and India, and progress against child marriage in Mysore, India. An anecdote from Helen M. Winslow in the Boston Transcript reflects debates among women club members.
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Woman’s Progress
Warner Snead
International Woman’s Union
Crichton Brown
East
Turkey
Miss Yoseph
Persia
Misa Eddy
Syria
Mary Sugana
Japan
India
Mysore
Woman’s Club
Helen M. Winslow
Boston Transcript
Woman Suffrage Moves in Tennessee and New England
A Tennessee senate bill seeks to allowed women to hold district school director offices while the house advances a measure enabling married women to sue in state courts. Lady Henry Somerset to speak on suffrage hearings in Massachusetts and Maine. Dr. Julia Holmes Smith launches a new woman's page in the Chicago Times.
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Tennessee Senate
Shelton
Henry Somerset
Massachusetts
Maine
Julia Holmes Smith
Chicao Times
Denver Women Abandon Hats at Theaters
The Denver Times notes that women in Denver and Colorado largely drop hats in theaters. Many attend without hats, while others choose small or flat hats to avoid distraction or offense during performances.
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Denver
Colorado
Othors
Denver Theatera
Denver Times
Secon Velvet Fashions from New Imports
The piece notes a belated midwinter velvet import arriving in robin's egg blue and pink rose. It is watered to resemble accordion-pleated velvet from a distance and suits evening wear or theater waists with chiffon.
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New York
Nowa
Fernald on New Woman Sees Home as Woman’s Vital Role
James C. Fernald argues the new woman should focus on the home where she outshines others. He claims without her, home cannot be made and the world needs her presence. He warns that erasing the individual home would fail to preserve the ideal woman's role.
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James C. Fernald
Woman Exposes Asylum Abuse. Plans Book on Her Experience
Mrs Harriet Hubbard Ayer, once confined 14 months in an insane asylum, vows to devote her life to exposing mistreatment of sane inmates. She plans to publish a book recounting her experiences and supports working women who have fallen from wealth to poverty.
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Mra
Harriet Hubbard Ayer
Trains Arrive and Depart From Major Points
Through lines link St Paul Chicago Spokane Tacoma Seattle Portland and coast points arriving at Northern Pacific Depot at 8 40 a m and Montana Union Depot daily. Through service includes Pallman Sleeping Cars between Butte and St Pan sleeping cars and dining cars with full timetable maps and tickets from W M Tuchy general agent 23 Broadway Butte Montana.
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St. Paul
Chicago
Northern Pacific Depot
Spokane
Tacoma
Seattle
Portland
All Coast Points
Montana Union Depot
Traina
Coast
California
Neleds
Cicago
Northern Pacific
Ceavesee Eee
Pallman
Butte
Et Pan
W.M. Tuchy
B. Broadway
Montana
Sanitary clubs urged for graduates to battle bacteria
A suggestion in The Journal of Household Economies invites graduates not yet to wage earners to form neighbor circles. These circles would study sanitary topics and organize a systematic critique of life destroying bacteria to wage a successful battle.
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Journal of Household Economies
Mrs Clara Myers Flora Ordained as Minister in Progressive Brethren
Mrs Clara Myers Flora of Dallas Center Iowa, wife of Rev Noah Flora, was ordained to full ministry and eldership by prayer and laying on of hands. She is a student eloquent speaker and revivalist with regular charges and notable success.
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Clara Myers Flora
Noah Flora
Dallas Center
Progressive Brethren Church
Flora
Philadelphia Women Real Estate and Personal Wealth Figures
Mrs. Lucretia M. B. Mitchell presents figures showing Philadelphia county Pa women are assessed on real estate 1 637 575 68 and personal estate and money at interest 35 734 183 68. This covers 87 wards with an average of 20 per cent. Blis Pe argues this as support for equal rights.
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Mutual
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H. G. Nichols
Joseph Sawyer
Boston Advertiser
North Shore Club
Emma M. Hooper
Ladies’ Home Journal
Women Stenographers
Woman's Progress
Club
The
Calantac
Ellen Sully Fray
Toledo
Sarah Stevens
Annie Walker
Mississippi
Fuchau
China
Ingle Sam
Tobaggo
Keystone Remedy Company
la Salle Street
HN M. Hamilton
Illinois
T.N. McCauley
Lec'y & Treas
Thos. F. Oaes
Henry ©. Payne
Menary C. Louse
Orthern
Pacific Railroad
Helena
Fargo
Winnipeg
Minneapolis
Duluth
Overman Wheel Coc
Victor
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Los Angeles
Detroit
Thompson & Reynolds
Montana ST
Dillon, Mont
R.C. Halliday
VAL Blatz
Milwaukee Beer
Bannack Gt
Dillion, Montana
Poindexter & Orr
Charles 8
General
St- Paul, Minn
Clara Myers
Sandoun
VOL Medicine
San Mennesses
Cal
Sfarmer” Miles
Charleston
Coles Co
Ill
Adare
D.G
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