Index to Articles on Women, 1840's-Early 1930's,
From Newspapers Found in the Grand Rapids Public Library

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N/Y

TITLE

SOURCE

NEWSDATE

DATE

YEAR

Baars, Miss Annie

WOMEN

y

Secretary of Women's Missionary Society

GRD

16 Mar 1891

16 Mar

1891

Baca, Miss Marie

WOMEN

y

New York society girl aids women and children

GRH

8 Mar 1914

8 Mar

1914

Backus, Mrs. E. C.

WOMEN

y

WCTU-Sixth ward, president

GREL

19 Jan 1885

19 Jan

1885

Bagley, Mrs.

WOMEN

y

Lady Board of Managers -no Sunday opening for fair

GREL

6 Sep 1891

6 Sep

1891

Bahr, Miss Linda P.

WOMEN

y

First Woman Mason County candidate school commissioner

GRP

3 Jan 1919

3 Jan

1919

Bailey, Miss Enid

WOMEN

y

Eleven Nurses of Grand Rapids Return Friday

GRP

22 Mar 1919

22 Mar

1919

Bailey, Miss Enid M.

WOMEN

y

How two Grand Rapids women struck gold-cherry trees

GRH

18 Jul 1930

18 Jul

1930

Bailey, Miss Irene

WOMEN

y

Eleven Nurses of Grand Rapids Return Friday

GRP

22 Mar 1919

22 Mar

1919

Bailey, Mrs. A. Gertrude

WOMEN

y

Mrs. A. Gertrude Bailey to lecture at Unitarian Church

GRET

7 Mar 1895

7 Mar

1895

Bailey, Mrs. Gertrude

WOMEN

y

Mrs. Gertrude Bailey of Chicago to lecture at church

GRET

1 Feb 1895

1 Feb

1895

Bailey, Mrs. Rachael

WOMEN

y

Women in Fraternal Parade

GREP

17 Aug 1910

17 Aug

1910

Bainbridge, Anna

WOMEN

y

Girl's ears pierce, dies of blood poisoning

GRH

16 Sep 1912

16 Sep

1912

Baker, Miss Maude

WOMEN

y

Secretary, Woman's Cycling Club

GRD

3 Oct 1895

3 Oct

1895

Baker, Mrs.

WOMEN

y

Pretty waiter girls in saloon

GRDE

19 Feb 1875

19 Feb

1875

Baker, Mrs. Lareine Helen

WOMEN

y

Spurns the Large Family

GREP

14 Apr 1910

14 Apr

1910

Bald Head Club of America

WOMEN

n

Best husbands bald, according to club members

GRH

1 Jul 1914

1 Jul

1914

Baldwin, Helen

WOMEN

y

Beauty on a bicycle

GRH

8 Aug 1892

8 Aug

1892

Baldwin, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Neecarnis Lodge for girls

GRH

26 Mar 1922

26 Mar

1922

Baldwin, Mrs. Harry T.

WOMEN

y

Women spurn spotlight but influence felt in commission room

GRH

12 Oct 1924

12 Oct

1924

Ball, John

WOMEN

y

Sister of John Ball dies in Lansingburgh, NY

GREL

29 May 1891

29 May

1891

Ball, Miss

WOMEN

y

City librarian visits California

GREL

3 Oct 1892

3 Oct

1892

Ball, Miss Jessie

WOMEN

y

President, U.B.A. Hospital Auxilliary

GREP

4 Dec 1893

4 Dec

1893

Ball, Miss Lucy

WOMEN

y

Equal Franchise Club Song and Essay Contest

GRH

5 Apr 1914

5 Apr

1914

Ball's Corsets

WOMEN

n

Ball's Corsets - Health preserving

GRE

17 Feb 1885

17 Feb

1885

Baltimore, Maryland

WOMEN

n

Belles in Tights

GRTH

22 Sep 1891

22 Sep

1891

Baltimore, Maryland

WOMEN

n

Convicted wife beater, went to whipping post

GRP

1 May 1926

1 May

1926

Bangkok

WOMEN

n

The City of Women

GREP

3 Sep 1900

3 Sep

1900

Banks, Dr. Gertrude

WOMEN

y

Three Michigan women elected as directors

GREL

3 Dec 1892

3 Dec

1892

Banks, Mrs. Rev. H. F.

WOMEN

y

Congregational Pastor has Toothache, So Wife Takes Pulpit

GRP

11 Mar 1919

11 Mar

1919

Barberi, Marla

WOMEN

y

Seven Women recently tried for murder - sentenced to death

GRD

4 Aug 1895

4 Aug

1895

Barker, Cattherine

WOMEN

y

No lack of wooers for riches maiden, Michigan City, Indiana

GRH

27 Jun 1914

27 Jun

1914

Barker, Rev. Mr.

WOMEN

y

Abused by Rev. Mr. Barker

GRSEP

6 Jun 1874

6 Jun

1874

Barnard, Mrs. E. P.

WOMEN

y

Mrs. E. P. Barnard charged with murder of minister's wife

GREL

26 Nov 1881

26 Nov

1881

Barnes, Bertha

WOMEN

y

Daughters of Chicago Millionaires

GRH

31 Jan 1892

31 Jan

1892

Barnes, Mrs. Ray

WOMEN

y

Cascade Hills Silver Pin

GRH

15 Jun 1924

15 Jun

1924

Barrett, Miss Ida M.

WOMEN

y

Holds luncheon for State Nurses Assn board

GRH

3 Sep 1912

3 Sep

1912

Barry County Farm Bureau

WOMEN

n

Renames woman president of farm bureau

GRH

31 Oct 1932

31 Oct

1932

Barry County, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Barry Girls' conference will be in two weeks

GRP

1 May 1926

1 May

1926

Barstow, Miss Helen

WOMEN

y

Grand Rapids Woman Curlers Assn

GRH

27 Jul 1924

27 Jul

1924

Barth, Dr. Louis

WOMEN

y

Alleges criminal assault by Dr. Louis Barth

GREP

4 Dec 1893

4 Dec

1893

Bartlentt, Barbara

WOMEN

y

Barbara Bartlett elected president of Michigan Nurses Assn

GRH

27 May 1922

27 May

1922

Bartlett, Miss Clara

WOMEN

y

Eleven Nurses of Grand Rapids Return Friday

GRP

22 Mar 1919

22 Mar

1919

Bartlett, Mrs. Alice E.

WOMEN

y

Women As Writers: Their Michigan Organization

GRD

18 Nov 1894

18 Nov

1894

Bartlett, Rev. Miss Caroline J.

WOMEN

y

Unitarian preacher, Kalamazoo

GREL

22 May 1891

22 May

1891

Barton, Clara

WOMEN

y

Heroines of Today

GREL

21 Jun 1892

21 Jun

1892

Barton, Clara

WOMEN

y

What One Woman Did, Clara Barton dies.

GRH

13 Apr 1912

13 Apr

1912

Baseball

WOMEN

n

Farce Staged by Girl Team in Game Here

GHDT

11 Aug 1922

11 Aug

1922

Baseball

WOMEN

n

Muskegon baseball stars to play bloomer girls

GRH

3 Aug 1922

3 Aug

1922

Bates, Miss Octavia

WOMEN

y

Worker in Michigan Equal Suffrage Assn

GRH

6 May 1894

6 May

1894

Bates, Mrs. M. E. C.

WOMEN

y

Vice-president of Michigan Woman's Press Assn

GRD

7 Jun 1891

7 Jun

1891

Bates, Mrs. M. E. C.

WOMEN

y

Our Brainy Women - Teacher, journalist

GRH

3 Jan 1892

3 Jan

1892

Bates, Octavia W.

WOMEN

y

Women in colleges by Octavia W. Bates

GRTH

15 Oct 1891

15 Oct

1891

Battle Creek, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Mrs. Thelma Snyder held on murder charge

GRP

10 May 1926

10 May

1926

Battle Creek, Michigan

WOMEN

n

100 girls will dance with Camp Custer Men

GRH

27 May 1922

27 May

1922

Battle Creek, Michigan

WOMEN

n

State Club Women Open Annual Meet

GRP

18 Feb 1919

18 Feb

1919

Battle Creek, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Meeting at Battle Creek in June

GREL

20 Apr 1891

20 Apr

1891

Battle Creek, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Meeting held at Battle Creek, MI

GRD

11 Jun 1891

11 Jun

1891

Battle Creek, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Elected member of Battle Creek school board

MDC

9 Sep 1891

9 Sep

1891

Bauch, Mrs. Dr.

WOMEN

y

Mrs. Dr. Baugh of Detroit will treat all chronic diseases

GRDMD

25 Jul 1880

25 Jul

1880

Bauer, Christina

WOMEN

y

1897 U.B.A. Hospital graduate here from Mexico

GRH

7 Jun 1914

7 Jun

1914

Bauer, Miss Florence

WOMEN

y

Actress wife will stick to embezzler

GRH

1 Dec 1912

1 Dec

1912

Bauer, Mrs. Edna

WOMEN

y

Holland divorcee being tried for throwing acid at man

GRP

10 Sep 1925

10 Sep

1925

Baur, Mrs. Jacob

WOMEN

y

Woman candidate for congress will meet voters, Chicago, ILL

GRP

31 Mar 1926

31 Mar

1926

Baxter Laundry

WOMEN

n

Pardonable pride, dry cleaned by Baxter Laundry

GRH

15 Dec 1912

15 Dec

1912

Bay City, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Girls mad; strike ofver 3 co-workers discharged

GRH

23 Sep 1910

23 Sep

1910

Bay City, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Three Policewomen are Appointed in Bay City, MI

GRH

9 Jan 1914

9 Jan

1914

Bay City, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Miss Kate McNabb elected school director

GRH

4 Aug 1897

4 Aug

1897

Bay City, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Leading clubwoman dies at Bay City, Michigan

MDC

6 Apr 1904

6 Apr

1904

Bay City, Michigan

WOMEN

n

White Slavery Investigator-Rooming Conditions Vile

GRH

17 Mar 1913

17 Mar

1913

Bay View, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Michigan Woman's Press Club meeting

GRH

24 Jul 1892

24 Jul

1892

Bayer, Miss

WOMEN

y

Women of the Hour - Surgeon at Bosnia…

GREL

2 May 1892

2 May

1892

Beach, Miss Adelaide

WOMEN

y

Grand Rapids teachers grow old in public work

GREP

13 Apr 1907

13 Apr

1907

Beach, Rev. King D.

WOMEN

y

Will deliver a sermon on the ideal girl

GRH

19 Feb 1922

19 Feb

1922

Bear Lake, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Woman Deputy Marshal of Bear Lake

GRH

21 Apr 1912

21 Apr

1912

Beaudry, Mrs. N. I. of Grand Haven

WOMEN

y

Michigan Women Suffragists 2nd annual convention

GREL

7 Oct 1885

7 Oct

1885

Beaver Island, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Girl Freezes To Save Father - Walks across ice from …

PEN

1 Apr 1916

1 Apr

1916

Bechtel, Mrs. Ophelia A.

WOMEN

y

Plan for honoring mothers who have sons in service

GRH

7 Oct 1917

7 Oct

1917

Bechtel, Mrs. Ophelia A.

WOMEN

y

President of Eva Gray Tent, D.A.R.

GRH

7 Oct 1917

7 Oct

1917

Becker, Mrs. M. G.

WOMEN

y

Treasurer of Montcalm Women's Clubs

GRH

2 Jun 1933

2 Jun

1933

Beebe, Miss Lilly

WOMEN

y

WCTU-Eighth ward, secretary

GREL

19 Jan 1885

19 Jan

1885

Beech Tree Ball Park, Grand Haven

WOMEN

n

Bloomer Girls baseball team vs C. M. Co. team

GHDT

27 Jul 1904

27 Jul

1904

Beech Tree Ball Park, Grand Haven

WOMEN

n

Girls versus men play baseball, Beech Tree Ball Park

GHDT

29 Jul 1904

29 Jul

1904

Begum, Shah Jehan

WOMEN

y

Women of the Hour - Supression of opium in India

GREL

2 May 1892

2 May

1892

Belding, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Boarding houses for female workers at silk factories

GREP

13 Mar 1913

13 Mar

1913

Belding, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Two Women Seek City Office at Belding, Michigan

GRP

14 Mar 1919

14 Mar

1919

Belding, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Woman editor dead, Belding, Michigan

GRH

13 Jul 1912

13 Jul

1912

Belding, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Robbed and murdered to finance wedding

GRH

28 Feb 1912

28 Feb

1912

Belding, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Silk Thread Factories empoly 1,000 women, Belding, MI

PR

13 Nov 1901

13 Nov

1901

Belknap, Capt. Charles L.

WOMEN

y

Pioneer Women of Grand River Valley met real hardships

GHDT

28 Dec 1922

28 Dec

1922

Belknap, Dollie

WOMEN

y

Seven Women recently tried for murder - 13 yr. old

GRD

4 Aug 1895

4 Aug

1895

Bellaire, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Women Run For Village Offices

GRP

19 Feb 1919

19 Feb

1919

Bellevue, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Bellevue is boastful of girl editor, 'Bellevue Gazette'

GRH

2 Nov 1924

2 Nov

1924

Belmont, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Spoke at Belmont, Michigan

GRSEP

10 Oct 1874

10 Oct

1874

Belmont, Mrs. O. H.

WOMEN

y

Ashurst Warned by Suffragists

GRH

7 Mar 1914

7 Mar

1914

Bemis, Mrs. Abi A.

WOMEN

y

Oldest Member of Park Congregational Church dead

GRH

20 Jul 1913

20 Jul

1913

Bender, Miss Josephine

WOMEN

y

Miss Bender reaches semi-finals in golf meet

GRP

8 Aug 1928

8 Aug

1928

Bender, Miss Josephine

WOMEN

y

Y. W. C. A. campaign committee joint chairmen

GRP

16 Jan 1926

16 Jan

1926

Benedict, Miss

WOMEN

y

Ladies and children's dance classes at Armory

GREL

15 Sep 1884

15 Sep

1884

Benedict, Mrs. Helen

WOMEN

y

Children disown mother who had her hair bobbed

GRP

20 Apr 1926

20 Apr

1926

Benefit

WOMEN

n

Woman's Handiwork Exhibit benefits Butterworth & U.B.A.

GRH

6 Oct 1896

6 Oct

1896

Benerowicz, Mrs. Constantia

WOMEN

y

Killed Man to Save Her Honor

GRH

21 Jan 1914

21 Jan

1914

Bennet, Miss Bess

WOMEN

y

G. R. sisters gain fame in photography

GRH

9 Aug 1925

9 Aug

1925

Bennet, Miss Vera

WOMEN

y

G. R. sisters gain fame in photography

GRH

9 Aug 1925

9 Aug

1925

Bennett, Miss Gertrude

WOMEN

y

Girl leads war on wolves in upper peninsula

GRP

24 Dec 1925

24 Dec

1925

Benson, Miss Edith

WOMEN

y

Appointed agent of Lake Shore Rd. at Charlestown, MI

GRTH

15 Aug 1891

15 Aug

1891

Benson, Mrs. H.

WOMEN

y

Woman of 70 - dresses are all right

GRP

16 Aug 1928

16 Aug

1928

Benson, Mrs. H.

WOMEN

y

Would removed safeguards to working hours for women

GRP

6 Feb 1926

6 Feb

1926

Benton Harbon, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Benton Harbor High School-women be allowed rights of men

GRD

30 Jan 1894

30 Jan

1894

Benton Harbor, Michigan

WOMEN

n

John V. Farwell overall factory employs 100 women

GHDT

7 May 1900

7 May

1900

Benzie County, Michigan

WOMEN

n

To Succeed Husband as Benzie Sheriff

GRP

4 Nov 1920

4 Nov

1920

Benzie County, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Benzie Woman Jury Convicts Brothers for Beating

GRP

31 Mar 1919

31 Mar

1919

Benzie County, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Elected Sheriff of Benzie County, Michigan

GRP

4 Nov 1920

4 Nov

1920

Bergsma, Miss Rena

WOMEN

y

Nurses appear in new uniform capes

GRP

27 Mar 1926

27 Mar

1926

Bergsma, Obbie

WOMEN

y

Obbie Bergsma's barber shop - won't bob women's hair

GRP

2 Oct 1928

2 Oct

1928

Berkey, Mrs. Julius

WOMEN

y

Delegates chosen for state convention

GRE

2 May 1879

2 May

1879

Berkey's Block

WOMEN

n

Woman's Suffrage Assn meeting - Berkey's Block

GREL

10 Jul 1884

10 Jul

1884

Berlin, Germany

WOMEN

n

Women escape severe penalties

GRH

31 May 1914

31 May

1914

Berlin, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Funeral of murdered woman held at Berlin Methodist

GHET

11 Jul 1895

11 Jul

1895

Bernard, Auguste

WOMEN

y

Woman's Skirts Fatal to Airman

GRH

6 Jun 1913

6 Jun

1913

Berrien County, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Prohibits women using sewing machines

DDA

16 Mar 1861

16 Mar

1861

Bertrand, Mme. Alice

WOMEN

y

World vice-president of Y. W. C. A.

GRP

8 May 1926

8 May

1926

Best, Mrs. A. Starr

WOMEN

y

Says It's Foolish to Censor a Play

GRH

20 May 1913

20 May

1913

Best, Mrs. Mary

WOMEN

y

Local President of Women's Benefit Assn

GRH

8 Jun 1924

8 Jun

1924

Beukema, Mrs. J. A.

WOMEN

y

Cascade Hills Silver Pin

GRH

15 Jun 1924

15 Jun

1924

Beulah, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Beulah men want to succeed woman sheriff

GRP

1 Aug 1922

1 Aug

1922

Bible Science Class

WOMEN

n

Reading by Dr. C. H. Maxim - Adam, Eve, the Devil

GRSEP

17 May 1879

17 May

1879

Bidgood, Mrs. Emily

WOMEN

y

Treasurer-Business and Profession Women's Club

GHDT

7 May 1924

7 May

1924

Bierwagen, Miss Della

WOMEN

y

Nurses appear in new uniform capes

GRP

27 Mar 1926

27 Mar

1926

Big Rapids Woman's Suffrage

WOMEN

n

Took a straw vote - Theodore Roosevelt most votes

GRH

24 Jan 1912

24 Jan

1912

Big Rapids, MI

WOMEN

n

Miss Dr. H. E. Deane, to practice in Grand Rapids

GRE

8 Jun 1882

8 Jun

1882

Big Rapids, Michigan

WOMEN

n

9th District Convention held at Big Rapids

MDC

25 Sep 1883

25 Sep

1883

Big Rapids, Michigan

WOMEN

n

Big Rapids senior girls don smocks as school uniform