Bewick Colby, Clara (1846-1916) The Woman's Tribune.
Beatrice, Nebraska, July 7, 1888.
Single issue, volume V. No. 35, four-leaf tabloid newspaper, unopened at top, with articles related to women's rights and suffrage, including letters by Susan B. Anthony, reports of women's political activities in other parts of the country, ads for other suffragist publications and much more, including notices by working women assisting to help their peers get jobs, buy real estate, short pieces on notable accomplishments of women in the clergy, medicine, and other professions, and much more; nicely preserved with old folds; 17¼ x 12 in.
Bewick Colby was born in England. She was educated in the United States and married Civil War general and U.S. Attorney General Leonard Wright Colby. Her frontier paper is the first daily news publication dedicated to issues relevant to women also produced by a woman in this country.
This issue carries an ad for the services of Dr. Elizabeth Grabe, a physician & surgeon, practicing in Beatrice, Nebraska on North 5th Street. Grabe was born in Ohio in 1862 and moved to Nebraska in 1884, after graduating from the Woman's Medical College in Philadelphia. She passed away in Beatrice in 1909.
