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WOMEN are uncertain creatures, as a class and as individuals, — only to be counted on, according to popular (masculine) tradition, to scream at the sight of a mouse ; to impart any secret rashly ...
No one knew why the murder trial of Harriet Schmoll gripped the public’s imagination like it did in November 1900. The facts of the case were simple. Everyone knew Schmoll had shot her neighbor, Lulu ...
“In 1900 the Fifth Avenue Bank in New York City featured a special row of tellers’ windows for the ladies.” The Fifth Avenue Bank was one of the first banks in the United States to cater to its female ...