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February 10, 1906

The whole world takes notice when Miss Alice Roosevelt is married because “it is not every day that the daughter of the president gets married.”

July 22, 1899

A “fat woman” rides her horse into town, and the citizens witness the horse collapsing under her weight.

July 21, 1906

Margaret E. Sangster, the main advocate of birth control at the time, voices her opinion that women and girls must learn how to cook and clean in order to be “considered well educated.”

January 16, 1904

A Northern agent advertises for young women “to do plain cooking, ironing and washing for families in and around New York. Nice homes and good wages."

November 11, 1899

A black woman responds to a white woman's claims that black mother's do a poor job, and says she "would advise the lady not to write up subjects where her race is so deeply involved in the great wrong and sin they have placed upon this people."

May 20, 1905

Maggie L. Walker lectures to women at Swansboro Baptist Church.

January 6, 1901

The Courts of Calanthe deem Mrs. Josephine Graham an honorable leader and Christian.

July 21, 1906

The female department of the Knights of Pythias visits Washington and Lee University after appointing a new court.

March 2, 1907

The Planet suggests to women the type of hat they should wear based off of their nose structure.

November 3, 1906

Girls who have promised to stay single until their thirties dress up in their brother or fathers clothes, as men, pranking the women with whom they flirt.
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