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in support of women being employed by the government, amid criticism of the female clerks replacing men sent off to war, she was hired to write for the paper. She began writing under the pen name "Olivia," by which she became well known nationally, because of taboos against a woman's name appearing
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so she would not have to worry about keeping up with household chores. Every night at 8 p.m., a messenger on horseback would come to pick up her column and bring it to the train station so it could be printed the next morning in
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among her friends, and she would host extravagant events for various local organizations. In 1898 established Olivia
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