Women in the News 1890s

Miss Eva COBB, Miss Louise KING, Mrs. Kate Cabell CURIE, Miss Louisa SALMON, Miss Le VINSEN, Miss Clara SHIELDS.

Why are they in the news: One is to be married to an Oklahoma Mayor, one disappeared while bathing at Coney Island, one is the President of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, one is a sponsor of the Missouri Division of the United Confederate Veterans, one is the 2nd cousin of Theodore Roosevelt and engaged to become a Baroness, one announced her engagement at a dinner-dance given by President McKinley

All engravings are from the Kansas City Journal, 1897 - 1899.
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Vintage Women Ads

Another set of old newspaper advertisements I found searching through old (circa 1890s) Louisiana newspapers.
Some of the ads shown were for: Ripans Tabules, Gerstle's Female Panacea, Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine,  McElpee's Wine of Cardul, , Bradfield's Female Regulator, Cascaret's Pills, Kabo Corsets, Henderson Corsets,  Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and Syrup of Figs.