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Title: The Torch Bearer
A Look Forward and Back at the Woman's Journal, the Organ of the
Woman's Movement

Author: Agnes E. Ryan

Release Date: April 17, 2004 [EBook #12071]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Illustration: Women's Suffrage.]

=Woman's Journal and Suffrage News=

A weekly paper devoted to the interests of woman, to her educational,
industrial, legal and political equality, and especially to her right
of suffrage.

Founded in 1870 by Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell

_Editor-in-Chief_
Alice Stone Blackwell

_Contributing Editors_

Mary Johnston Stephen S. Wise
Josephine P. Peabody Zona Gale
Florence Kelley Witter Bynner
Ben B. Lindsey Caroline Bartlett Crane
Ellis Meredith Mabel Craft Deering
Eliza Calvert Hall Reginald Wright Kauffman

_Artists_

Mayme B. Harwood Fredrikke Palmer
Mrs. Oakes Ames

_Deputy Treasurer _Assistant Editor_

Howard L. Blackwell Henry Bailey Stevens

_Circulation Manager_ _Advertising Manager_

Marie Spink Joe B. Hosmer

_Finance_ _Managing Editor_

Mildred Hadden Agnes E. Ryan

=THE TORCH BEARER=

A Look Forward and Back at the
Woman's Journal, the Organ of
the Woman's Movement

By Agnes E. Ryan

=Contents=

The Torch Bearer

In the Balance

Taken Into Our Confidence

Some Changes

It Speaks for Itself (Editorial Department)

Suffrage Volunteer News Service

The Connecting Link (Circulation Department)

What Papers Live By (Advertising Department)

Prints and Reprints (Literature Department)

The Graveyard (Research and Information Departments)

Holding the Reins (Administration Department)

Capturing the Imagination (Press and Publicity Dept.)

A Word in Time (Field Workers' Department)

The Hope Chest (Finance Department)

Early Stockholders

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