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By 1903, its 34th year, it had 265 missionaries carrying on its work in India, China, Japan, Korea, Africa, Bulgaria, Italy, South
America, Mexico, and the Philippines, by means of women's colleges, high schools, seminaries, hospitals, dispensaries, day schools, and "settlement work".
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organizations in the United States focused on women's foreign missionary services; the two others were the WFMS of the
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incorporated under the laws of the State of New York in 1884
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