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24, 1888, 3.

“I think I shall always be”: Times Union, October 20, 1888.

“Occasionally her stories”: Buffalo Sunday Morning News, October 7, 1888, 5.

“she suffered the penalty paid”: McDougall, Life, 187.

“Hangman Joe at Home” and other quotations from this article: World, September 30, 1888, 17.

“Should women propose?” and other quotations from this series: World, November 11, 1888, 12, and World, November 18, 1888, 17.

“Horrors of a Slop Shop” and other quotations from this article: World, September 30, 1888, 18.

“They Work in an Inferno” and other quotations from this article: World, October 7, 1888, 17.

Chapter 5: Reckoning with the Evil of the Age (1888)

“yellowest”: Chapin, Chapin’s Story, 134.

“bright man and a woman reporter”: Ibid., 135.

“Chicago Abortioners”: Ibid., 136.

“parade her shame” and “a young woman of intelligence”: Chicago Times, December 15, 1888, 1.

“but a step toward divorce”: Chicago Times, December 6, 1888, 9.

“Thousands are doing it”: Chicago Times, December 15, 1888, 1.

“I felt that there was some big”: Chicago Times, December 19, 1888, 1.

“Tonight as I write this”: Chicago Times, December 17, 1888, 5.

“I manage somehow or other”: Chicago Times, December 22, 1888, 1.

one in five pregnancies: Mohr, quoted in Lahey, “Birthing,” 486.

“They have both been excommunicated”: Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, November 3, 1837, 2.

“the infernal plot”: Buffalo Courier, May 24, 1843, 3.

“Genuine French Female Monthly Pills” and “astonishing success”: New-York Tribune, September 30, 1841, 4.

“Female’s Friend” and “relieving and removing”: New-York Tribune, September 28, 1841, 4.

“Dr. Van Hambert’s Female Renovating Pills, from Germany” and “They must not be taken”: New York Daily Herald, October 26, 1837, 4.

“the beautiful cigar girl”: Public Ledger, August 3, 1841, 2.

“premature delivery”: New-York Tribune, November 18, 1842, 2.

“obstinate and long-standing cases” and “females in delicate health”: Public Ledger, February 25, 1841, 4.

“Restellism”: Baltimore Sun, April 3, 1848, 1.

“Madame Restell’s organ”: Vicksburg Daily Whig, October 12, 1841, 2.

“Restell school”: Public Ledger, September 1, 1841, 2.

“in no case do I engage”: New-York Tribune, August 24, 1842, 1.

“The mails go burdened with the circulars”: New York Times, August 23, 1871, 6.

“articles of indecent and immoral use”: Quoted in Werbel, Lust, 54–55.

“It is a cause for profound thanksgiving”: The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Annual Report, 13. UMLKF.

“uterine trouble” and “an internal hemorrhage”: St. Paul Globe, April 8, 1889, 3.

“Wilcox’s Compound Tansy Pills” and “afford speedy and certain relief”: Boston Globe, December 30, 1888, 10.

from an average of 7 children per woman: Mohr, Abortion, 82.

“St. Lawrence to the Golden Gate” and “I don’t exaggerate:” Chicago Times, January 3, 1889, 5.

“lost to shame” and “the method adopted”: Buffalo Times, December 24, 1888, 2.

“Some of the young girls will learn”: Chicago Times, December 23, 1888, 11.

“take the bull by the horns”: Ibid., 10.

“Bring the Husbands to Book”: Chicago Times, December 28, 1888, 1.

“It is our duty”: Chicago Times, December 22, 1888, 5.

“The social order that permits”: Chicago Times, December 23, 1888, 11.

“A Novel Treatment of Gonorrhea” and quotations for the rest of these meetings: Volume 9, CHMCMS.

“many a pearly tear”: Journal of the American Medical Association, January 12, 1889, 55.

“anything happened I could locate it”: Chicago Times, December 18, 1888, 2.

“control of our government”: Chicago Times, December 16, 1888, 9.

“the newspaper reports every day”: Stanton and Anthony, Selected Papers, 159.

“A woman should have the same chances” and “Amen”: Chicago Times, December 23, 1888, 9.

“For the Doctors”: Chicago Times, December 21, 1888, 4.

“small token of esteem”: Chicago Times, December 22, 1888, 5.

“My pilgrimage of disgrace is ended”: Chicago Times, December 26, 1888, 1.

“Many of the brightest women”: Journalist, January 26, 1889, 12.

“A harmless life, she called a virtuous life”: Browning, Aurora Leigh, 11.

“A newspaper girl, a newspaper girl” and “don’t think of it”: Banks, Autobiography, 6.

“Please make me a mean”: St. Paul Globe, November 4, 1888, 19.

“are so hideous and disgusting”: Banks, “‘Yellow Journalism,’” 338.

“The exposure made by the Times”: St. Paul Globe, December 20, 1888, 4.

Chapter 6: New Territory (1889–1890)

“The whole atmosphere of the place”: Bisland, Flying Trip, 22.

“monthly irregularities”: San Francisco Examiner, February 18, 1889, 7.

“Women who have fallen”: San Francisco Examiner, August 27, 1889, 7.

“Minnie . . . come home; all is forgiven”: San Francisco Chronicle, June 23, 1889.

“Confessions of an Actress” and other quotations from this article: Chicago Tribune, December 16, 1888, 26.

“I began to think”: Chicago Tribune, January 13, 1889, 26.

“the paper must be built up”: William Randolph Hearst to George Hearst, January 4, 1885, BLHP.

“The Examiner, with this issue”: San Francisco Examiner, March 4, 1887, 2.

“the fragrance of violets”: Bierce, “A Thumb-Nail Sketch,” 305.

“a very sure instinct about”: Finch Kelly, Flowing Stream, 240.

“the common enemy”: San Francisco Examiner, January 3, 1889, 4.

“The Examiner Does the Work of the Life Saving Service”: San Francisco Examiner, January 4, 1890, 1.

“Monarch of the Dailies”: San Francisco Examiner, January 7, 1890, 6.

“would cover not only myself”: Black, “Rambles, Part II,” 211.

“Don’t moralize. Get at your story”: San Francisco Examiner, July 13, 1890, 13.

“Yes, sir,” and “walked out into the quiet”: Black, “Rambles, Part II,” 212.

“wholesome and pink”: Older, Hearst, 99.

“wholesome as a May”: Winkler, W. R. Hearst, 72.

“the best boss, the kindest friend”: Black, “Rambles, Part II,” 213.

“If I could do it as quickly as Phileas Fogg did”: Bly, Around the World, http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bly/world/world.html.

“distinctive” and “peculiar personality”: San Francisco Examiner, January 22, 1890, 2.

“she is a plain every-day girl, with a wonderful head and warm heart”: San Francisco Examiner, November 19, 1889, 1.

“One was the regular routine”: San Francisco Examiner, January 22, 1890, 2.

“has never done anything” and “Miss Bisland is universally regarded”: San Francisco Examiner, November 19, 1889, 1.

“I didn’t realize what a public character”: San Francisco Examiner, November 20, 1889, 1.

“The Star-Eyed Goddess of Reform”: Black, “Rambles, Part II,” 37.

“Influence of the Daily Press”: Chicago Women’s Club Board Minutes 1876–1891, CHMCWC.

“Well, what do you want?” and other quotations from this scene: Chicago Tribune, January 13, 1889, 12.

“inconvenient individual who keeps abreast”: Ibid.

“I can’t see that there is anything” and other quotations from this scene: Chicago Tribune, December 13, 1889, 1.

“The city should at once organize”: Ibid., 2.

“simply sick of hearing these things”: San Francisco Examiner, January 22, 1890, 1.

“queer doings” and