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W C U in Paris highlights American exhibit in expo
Special Paris correspondence describes Mrs Josephine R Nichols head of the World’s Women’s Christian Temperance Union chalet at the Paris exposition. She battled space, funding, and French suspicion to display U S temperance literature and banners from 21 countries while highlighting prominent American women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frances Willard. Minister Reid’s Paris legation scene is sketched with Whitelaw Reid’s career arc and steady home life in the foreign post.
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Paris
Belva Lockwood
United States
Belva
Josephine R. Nichols
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Nichols
Union
England
Canada
China
Japan
Hawaiian Islands
New Zealand
Queensland
Australia
South Australia
Victoria
Ceylon
India
Burmah
Turkey
Africa
Siam
Sweden
Straits Settlements
Switzerland
Mexico
Mauritius
France
America
Frances Willard
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Miss Willard
Susan B. Anthony
Temperance
Peace Congress
Mr. Nichols
Josephine FR. Nichols
Indianapolis
Ind
Harrison
British Women’s Temperance Union
London
British Women’s Liberal Federation
Ashton Dilke
Charles Dilke
Liberal Federation
Lady Dilke
Lizabeth Jane Gardner
Rosa Bonheur
Rosa
Philadelphia
Kensington
Watteau
Nina Fagnani
New York City
Monnter
Fagnani
Metropolitan Museum
Kittie Sullivant
Alexis
New York
Mr. Burgess
Legation
Reid
Blaine
Logan
Jones
Bloomfield
Smith
Kalamazoo
Ohio
Horace Greeley
White