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Woman of the Century — Kate Bushnell (1893)

Bushnell is graceful, eloquent and earnest, and as a writer she is well known in her special field. This combination KATE BUSHNELL. of the woman and the physician, the orator and the author has made her the choice of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union for carrying the gospel of the white ribbon to foreign lands. In 1891 she left Chicago to circumnavigate the earth in the interests of humanity, representing over 500,000 women.
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Woman of the Century — Kate Bushnell (1893)

Dr. Bushnefl went as an evangelist to organize, instruct and encourage. She carried with her the "polyglot petition," a paper that was intended to l>e signed by at least two-million persons, representing a general protest against legalizing sale of alcoholics and of opium, and it is to be presented to every government on both hemispheres.
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