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VU13 UlUVUilU^, U UVJ UV f Ufc'.Vto the pen.Mis Allie B. Busby, the daughter of an English officer. Captain 8. L. Busby, was identified with the press of Iowa about three years. She had the entire editorial charge of the Belle Plaice Independent in 1883 and 1884. The excellence of her work was widely recognized, and in the latter year she received a gold medal from the Iowa Humane Association for an essay on ‘ The Reflexive Effect of Cruelty to Animals ’*About this t’me the commissioner of Indian affairs urged her to go as teacher to the Mus-qua-kiea at the Sac and Pox agency. These Indians have lived thirty years in the midst of civilized Iowa, without education of any kind—indeed, they have a strong aversion to becoming enlightened themselves or to having their children educated. Mies Busby finally succeeded in establishing a school amongst them in which she labored, though with little success, for two years The result of these efforts she embodied in a book, Two Summers Among the Mus qua-kies.”Once embarked in this work it was hard to give it up, and after leaving the Mus qua kies she assumed the charge of a government industrial boarding schoolat Santee Agency, Neb., a noted educational point for the Sioux Indians. From that sh« went to her present work in a school of the same character at WhiteHocks, Utah. She still keeps up her newspaper and magazine writing.Mrs. Florence Miller, editor of the Iowa W. C. T. U. Messenger, has been engaged for ten years in newspaper work She does everything except the typesetting upon her paper, edits, folds, wraps, and mails a circulation of 2.0C0, and does miscellaneous work in the temperance field besides. When the prohibitory amendment to the constitution was submitted in 1882 she sent out an edition of 100,000.M -__J'*** -____A A. Tl « A A___
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Dubuque Daily Herald
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Sun, Jul 01, 1888
Page 1
Full Page
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