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A shirt factory that employs many black women does not live up to its promises, leaving the women overworked and underpaid, so many quit.

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

Applications flood when a factory is opened for “colored” women, where they can sew shirts.

A woman forfeits her wedding ring to donate to the Woman’s Suffrage movement.

A newly installed fashion column provides new ways to keep women from suffering heatstroke due to their clothes in the summertime.

During severe thunderstorms, a lightning strike kills a black girl near Eastville Pearl Church.