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August 6

From Jone Johnson Lewis,
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This Day in Women's History

    1817: Zerelda Wallace born (reformer: suffrage, temperance; stepmother of Lew Wallace, author of Ben Hur)

    1833: Claire Démar commits suicide (radical, Saint-Simonian, sexual freedom advocate)

    1845: Myrtle Page Fillmore born (religious leader: Unity School of Christianity)

    1861: Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt born (second wife of Theodore Roosevelt)

    1881: Louella Parsons born (columnist)

    1905: Clara Bow born (actress)

    1911: Lucille Ball born (actress)

    1926: Gertrude Ederle swam the English Channel - the first woman to do so

Quote for Today

    The highest form of development is to govern one's self. -- Zerelda Wallace

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