Women Leaders Shaping Public Work Across Cities
A survey highlights Grace Dodge as a driving force behind New York City labor groups, notes women excelling in typesetting contests, and cites prize winning silk culture in Philadelphia. It reports on nursing and education advances in New York and Berlin, and argues women’s expertise benefits school boards, with London and U S examples of long tenured female board members.
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Grace BH. Dodge
Working Girls Guilds of
New York City
London School Board
Chicago
London Board
Philadelphia
Boston
Illinois women bill list and reform themes emerge
The document outlines laws of interest to women including probate fee reductions in Cook County for estates under 2000 for widows and minors, raising protection age to fourteen, tobacco sales limits to minors, prohibiting cousin marriages, and severe penalties for child abandonment. It also extols Charlotte Reed of Falls Church Virginia for wartime acts aiding a family, and notes debates on taxation without representation and women's suffrage with mentions of Massachusetts police matron bill passage.
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Illinois
Cook County
Charlotte Reed
Falls Church
Virginia
Massachusetts Passes Police Matron Bill for Women Detention
Senate approved a bill creating a House of Detention for women in Boston with chief, assistant, and district matrons to oversee all cities over 80 000 residents. Gov Ames plans to sign, law takes effect immediately, with matrons appointed only after approval by 25 Boston women or by ten women in other cities. Massachusetts claims to be first to pass such legislation.
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Senate
Ames
Boston
Josiah Quincy
Quincy
Mass
Miss Tobey
Massachusetts
Old Maies and the Work of Women in Massachusetts
The piece argues that the excess of females over males in Massachusetts helps explain old maids but excuses only a portion. It praises women who remain single for duty, cites Beecher on old maids, and urges women to pursue an avocation for honest living, regardless of marriage status.
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Massachusetts
Henry Ward Beecher
Nursery names on college diplomas spark debate at commencement
The New York Sun criticizes three graduates at Hutters Female College for using pet names like Mamie Bessie and Hattie on their diplomas. The piece argues such diminutives undermine maturity and mocks the custom, noting similar practices among male students and urging reform with a quack remedy plug.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lattie
Bessie
Mamie
Huteers Female College
New York Sun
Hattie
Harriet
Elizabeth
Mary
Oliver Wendell Holmes
England
Olite Holmes
Nell Holmes
Samson
Burchard
Birle
Jack
Nell
Willie
Influence and duties of girls in shaping boys and family life
A dated exhortation on how sisters influence brothers and younger sisters through gentleness, patience, and duty. It urges active sisterly involvement in brothers’ studies and sports, warns against careless elder behavior, and promotes a virtuous home as central to moral development. The piece ends by praising industrious girls and advertising Hood's Sarsaparilla as a tonic.
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Jersey City
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MacDonald & Ely
Chicagox
Alwus Rusterete
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Summers
Morrison & Co
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Porwell & Eco
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Paine
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Henry Republican
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United States
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Woman's Medical College of the
New York Infirmary
Emily Blackwell
Mary Bissell
India
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Germany
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Board of Education
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