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  • Topic is exactly "Women"

May 22, 1897

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

August 6, 1898

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

July 1, 1899

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

July 8, 1899

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

July 22, 1899

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

July 29, 1899

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

July 29, 1899

The Planet states four cases of betrayal caused by women who are deemed untrustworthy.

August 5, 1899

A man tells of his own “delinquencies” when dealing with his wife and how he has “reformed."

September 16, 1899

The Planet writes of the “good deal of talk” concerning a female bicyclist who is in Richmond on a “two weeks visit.”

September 16, 1899

The Planet writes of the “good deal of talk” concerning a female bicyclist who is in Richmond on a “two weeks visit.”
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