of verse, also of Topeka, who is co-author with
her late husband in the revised ``Flora And
Check List of Kansas.''


Among the clever newspaper women of
the state are Margie Webb Tennal, Sabetha;
Maud C. Thompson, Howard; Frances Garside,
formerly of Atchison, now with the New York
Journal; Mrs. E. E. Kelley, Toronto; Anna
Carlson, Lindsborg; Mrs. Mary Riley, Kansas
City; and Isabel Worrel Ball, a Larned woman,
who bears the distinction of being the only
woman given a seat in the congressional press
gallery. Grace D. Brewer, Girard, has been a
newspaper woman and magazine short story
writer for ten years.

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Among the early Kansas writers are Clarinda
Howard Nichols, Mrs. A. B. Bartlett,
Lucy B. Armstrong, Sarah Richart, Mrs. Porter
Sherman, and Mary Tenny Gray, all of
Wyandotte and Mrs. C. H. Cushing of Leavenworth.

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