In turn-of-the-century Texas, newspapers routinely offered only fashion and social news to their women readers. Pauline Periwinkle, the pen name of Isadore Miner Callaway, changed this with her weekly column for the Woman's Century Page of the "Dallas Morning News" which encourage women to take part in the Progressive Era by becoming involved in reform efforts in their cities and towns.
As the first woman editor for "Dallas Morning News, " Pauline Periwinkle was a catalyst for numerous local reforms and was widely read by women across Texas. Viewing women's clubs as an ideal vehicle for...

In turn-of-the-century Texas, newspapers routinely offered only fashion and social news to their women readers. Pauline Periwinkle, the pen name of Isadore Miner Callaway, changed this with her weekly column for the Woman's Century Page of the "Dallas Morning News" which encouraged women to take part in the Progressive Era by becoming involved in reform efforts in their cities and towns.
As the first woman editor for "Dallas Morning News, " Pauline Periwinkle was a catalyst for numerous local reforms and was widely read by women across Texas. Viewing women's clubs as an ideal vehicle for...