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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1895
Page
12
The piece skewers the frenzy around the New Woman as editors, authors, and lecturers clamor to define her. It notes sensational headlines and eccentric sketches by writers, critics, and artists, all urging fresh facts and vivid portraits while the public eagerly reads for change.
A satirical column foresees the rise of New Women upending traditional roles. It humorously predicts shifts in work, home life, and crime narratives with invented "Coming Woman" personas, warning readers to resist the changing gender balance and return to present male authority.
A lawyer recalls defending Col Coventry in a sensational murder robbery case. A pivotal courtroom trick used a mirror to reveal the true shooter’s handedness, overturning witnesses and saving Coventry from hanging. The case ended with the real killer later arrested and hanged.
A long feature traces Frederic R. Coudert collecting varied life changes in public figures and everyday people. It chronicles lawyers turning patent medicine salesmen, sea captains becoming bookkeepers, actors from stage to stock company, and women joining diverse bold careers, including a dame who dresses as an Indian squaw and runs a shooting gallery.
Fragmentary quotation contrasts British and Boston men and Chinese stereotypes with a controversial line about spreading packages. The source cites Morley Roberts from In St. Louis Republic, describing a sensational scene about a “taking of uglé Pusa” and xenophobic rhetoric.
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