Women League meeting and social debate on careers
The Professional Women's League, based at room 22 in the Swan Building, invites members to a May 10 meeting at 7 30 PM with attendance urged. The issue includes membership applications and a series of social and political observations from editorials on marriage, careers, and suffrage, plus discussions of public baths and gender roles.
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League
Swan Building
Central Street
Wildie Thayer
Sun Office
E. M. Wells
Courier-Citizen Office
Frances Knight
Bridge Street
Middlesex Women’s Club Elects New Officers After Year of Service
The Middlesex Women’s club held its annual meeting with retiring president Mrs Virginia G Hill and Miss M Ella Russell honored with roses and thanks. New officers include Frances Huntington as president and Susie L D Watson as recording secretary, with a full board and directors elected for three years.
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Middlesex Women’s Club
Virginia G. Hill
M. Ella Russell
Russell
Frederick Lawton
Frances Huntington
Mary A. Webster
Helen M. Lambert
Elizabeth F. Bennett
Susie L. D. Watson
Anna E. Fay
Martha M. Pollard
Helen A. Whittier
Clara T. C. Jackson
Bertha Barker Wier
Minnie L. Chandler
Cera Ama
Tntal
Fox
Fay
Dunlap
Lily Clark
Mary C. Hall
Fort Hill Park
State Federation
Clinton
Miss Watson
Women’s Auxiliary
New York Civil Service Reform Association
Board of Police
First Street
Stackpole Street
Tewksbury
Science Department
Frederick P. Spaulding
Corresponding Secretary Reports Five Years of Service
The Middle sex Women's club notes 1200 to 1500 mail items, mainly membership and club policy correspondence. Seventy two membership applications, 29 vacancies filled, 24 new members, five reinstatements. Waiting list shows 502 women pending, with November 1897 at the head. many vacancies due to death or removal. The secretary retires after five years, thanking members and asking for continued support for her successor.
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Addison Putnam, Jr
Lewis M. Swift
Marion N. Noyes
Isabel P. Kendall
Charles 8. Bean
Peri
Gates of
Paradise
Middlesex Women's Club
Dress couture and society’s queen amid toil and cure
A ballroom spectacle shows the social queen and her dressmaker under bright lights as overwork and stress threaten health. The piece links nervous exhaustion to overtaxed living and advocates Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for restoring strength and well being with testimonials from women cured after multiple bottles.
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Society
Lydia E. Pinkham
Ely's Cream Balm for Nasal Catarrh
An advertisement claims Ely Brothers at 56 Warren Street New York offer Ely's Cream Balm to prevent and cure nasal catarrh from sudden climate change. Priced at 50 cents with mail order offered. The balm purportedly soothes irritation, reduces inflammation and relieves pain without sneezing or irritation.
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Ely
Ely Brothers
Warren Street
New York
A New Class of Labor in the South
Leonora Beck Bliss in the May Forum notes a rapid rise of white Southern textile operatives from 667000 spindles nineteen years ago to 7000000 in operation and 1500000 planned. The rural-to-manufacturing shift, mainly from farms, grows to about a quarter million workers with four times that number dependent on their labor. They are untrained rural natives adapting to factory life, with better wages and homes anticipated as cities influence drift.
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South
Southern Facttories
America
Leonora Beck Bliss
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Sybil
Our City
Mrs. Eddy
Christian Science
John Strange Winter
Stannard
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Pollard
Ship
Elizabeth Dean Adams
Ida Barrett Adams
Lizzie S. Fox
Colonial Hall
Hospital Association
General Federation
Women’s Era Club
Women's Era Club
California
Executive Council
F. Hopkinson Smith
John Kendrick Bangs
Munsterberg
Knight
Scotland
Fiske
Department of Education
Department of History
Crawford Burnham
Annie E. Smiley
Albert L. Bacheller
Carl D. Burtt
Tennyson
E. Charlton Black
Robbins
Mary A. Pillsbury
Nourse
Estelle I. Pillsbury
Browning
Locks and Canals Co
J. G. Jack
Arnold Arboretum
City of
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Merrimack River
Mathews
Massachusetts State Federation of Women’s Clubs
Ruffin
Bouillon
Casey Corner
Middlesex Hall
James B. Francis
Kate T. Dimon
A. G
Sadie A. Brown
Loraine $. Coburn
Caroline G. Cooper
Cera BE. Coram
Fanny H. Howe
Emma R. Sawyer
Martha S. Chase
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Weymouth
Amherst
Brockton
Malden
New England
Sociology Department
Hall
Nike
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston
Mary G. Stevens
Commue
Lizzie Anderson
Union St
Salem, N. J
Dean Mas
Prxxuam
Sarah Sneder
West St
la Porte, Ind
Dean
National City Bank
Lynn
Mass
Lupia E. Pinknam
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