GENERAL NEWS.
THE RACE FOR LAND. WOMEN BEAT.THB MEN
San Francisco, May IS. To-day Miss Jilsa Goessling and. Jliss Frances Munn, of Hoquiam, Washington, are two of the happiest girls in the United States. Yesterday they succeeded in staking out claims on the Kiuner forest reserve. At five o'clock in tire morning t'he young women waited with the .men for the rush at daylight, and when the time came they sprinted across the border and got first choice, beating tlie men to tike spot.
WANTED PERFECT MEN. CHICAGO GIRLS' DESIRES.
New York, May 10. , Fifty girls have formed the Chicago Bachelor Girls' Club, and are. lookingfor perfect men. The elul) members are all fine-looking girls, 20 being blondes, 20 brunette, am} 10 "mix?..:." The man who would marry one of them must agree to treat his wife as a political and social equal, promise to ldss her good-bye every morning, agree never to growl at her cooking, and obey the Ten Commandments.
LADY MAYOR. BUSINESS WOMAN ELECTED.
New York, May l(i. Yesterday Kingston Mines (Illinois) elected its first woman Mayor in the person of Mrs. Kate York, who for the last 25 years has been successfully engaged in a local general mercantile business.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 20, 11 June 1914, Page 5
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203GENERAL NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 20, 11 June 1914, Page 5
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