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it is to him that Mrs. Bradford owes her thorough mental training. She was first educated in New York and Paris, and later studied in Italy and
Germany. She made her home in New York city until she came to Colorado eleven years ago. While living East she devoted herself to writing, and for years was connected with the
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Colorado who will attend the Democratic National Convention as delegate-at-large, enjoying the tinction of being the first woman to be elected to a seat in a Democratic National Convention, gave her views to the World today on the political
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