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feathers in women's hats, and was known to forcibly remove them from hats of other women in her company. She started a boys' club, Bird
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124:, started the Dade County Federation of Women's Clubs, was active in the Florida Federation of Women's Clubs. She founded the Coconut Grove Audubon Society and was its first president in 1915. She opposed the fashion of using
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