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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, May 1, 1906
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, May 1, 1906
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, November 16, 1907
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, October 8, 1909
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Harrisburg Daily Independent, Pennsylvania, July 26, 1913
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, December 7, 1908
If anyone doesn’t know, a masher was a man who you’d find loafing, usually on street corners, making unwanted advances towards women (catcalling, and sometimes even getting physical - trying to hug or kiss).
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The Roanoke News, Weldon, North Carolina, August 12, 1909
What would you think of a woman who addressed a club meeting of men by telling them how charming, how well gowned, how pretty, they were?
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Women picketers, Pittsburgh, June 1914
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Boston Post, Massachusetts, December 29, 1896
The Wichita Daily Eagle, Kansas, January 2, 1921
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The Wichita Daily Eagle, Kansas, December 25, 1920
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The Wichita Daily Eagle, Kansas, April 21, 1920
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The Wichita Daily Eagle, Kansas, April 21, 1920
“They are neither nifty nor handsome,” he declared
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Boston Post, Massachusetts, December 14, 1920
The Evening Review, East Liverpool, Ohio, May 14, 1909
..the guilty party will probably be administered a severe beating or his remains will undoubtedly be recognized in a morgue.
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Boston Post, December 5, 1920