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Waukegan Weekly Gazette · February 19, 1870
Editorial: Women’s Suffrage Advocates & “Venerable Hen-Hussies”
An editorial ridiculing the women’s suffrage movement names Myra Bradwell among its prominent advocates and dismisses male supporters, including her husband, Judge James Bradwell, as “venerable hen-hussies.”
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