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Top Food Editors: Day 18 & Clarice Rowlands
Day 18 of Top Food Editors features Clarice Rowlands. Clarice Rowlands was the food editor of the Milwaukee Journal in the 1950s – an interest that she said started when she was a member of the 4-H Club in high school. A 1936 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, she was a society reporter at a Green Bay newspaper from 1937 until 1943 and then joined the Journal. She occasionally wrote under the pen name Alice Richards. She was married to fellow Journal employee Charles Nevada. She said she was often asked the question that tends to irritate many food writers: “Does she cook?” Many of these women found that…
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First American Women’s Page
I have been able to confirm that one of the first women’s page in a U.S. newspaper was in the Milwaukee Journal – not in Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World as many journalism histories state. For example, the Encyclopedia of American Journalism notes that Pulitzer was the first to included weekly articles aimed at women in 1891 and by 1894 had a regular “For and About Women” section. The image above is from the Google project that scanned issues of the Milwaukee Journal from its beginning. It proves that on August 9, 1885 the Journal published a section called: “Maids and Matrons” that was clearly intended as a women’s page.…
