"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
Named greatest U. S. woman of the century (1832-1932) in a nation-wide free-for-all-women poll to select the twelve whose likenesses will appear in a frieze in the Social Science Building at Chicago's Century of Progress was Mary Baker Eddy with 102,762 votes. Second with 99,147 was Jane Addams, Others: Clara Barton, Frances Elizabeth Willard, Susan Brownell Anthony, Helen Adams Keller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Julia Ward Howe, Carrie Chapman Catt, Amelia Earhart Putnam, Mary Lyon, Dr-Mary Emma Woolley.
In Chicago, Runner-up Addams announced her own...
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