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9/3/1880: Two Alleged Girls Who Are Supposed To

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THE DAILY JOURNAL: FREEPOBT, ILLINOIS,. SEPTEMBER 3, 188o. PAINFUL EXPOSURE. A VIRGINIA SENSATION HAS A STARTLING SEQUEL Two Alleged Girls Who Are Supposed To Be Masculines —The Adventures of the Feminines of the Payne Family. WASHINGTON CITY, Sept 8—Rebecca Payne, of Winchester, Va., startled that quiet community, some months ago, by suddenly appearing in male habiliments, and with a doctor’s certificate of her right to wear masculine attire, applied to the county court for a marriage license in the name of Lawrence R. Payne. The license was granted, and in short order Lawrence, late Rebecca, was duly married to a Miss Hilton, for some time previously his assistant on his farm and at his store. These are familiar facts, for the story of the remarkable sexual transformation was published all over the country at the time. It is recalled now by the discovery that a sister of Lawrence Payne has

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Community significance

“9/3/1880: Two Alleged Girls Who Are Supposed To” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to family and relationships, while also engaging law and civil rights. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2011 at Cristan’s Research, “9/3/1880: Two Alleged Girls Who Are Supposed To” provides dated evidence of how family and relationships was being argued in relation to law and civil rights. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

“9/3/1880: Two Alleged Girls Who Are Supposed To” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with family and relationships. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for law and civil rights.

Content analysis

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Rank 1 is the dominant inferred theme or framing. Parent labels identify broader theme families; the relationship key beneath the diagram explains the line styles used for hierarchy, same-family relationships, overlap, and separate-but-related themes.

Themes

  1. 1
    Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    100%
  2. 2
    Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    29%
  3. 3
    Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    24%
  4. 4
    Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
    9%

Academic framing

  1. 1100%

Editorial function

Relationship among the ranked article themes The central circle is the primary theme. Line styles are defined in the relationship key below the diagram. Family and relationships to Law and civil rights: Separate but related
Law and civil rights
Family and relationships to Community and organizing: Related theme in the same family
Community and organizing
Family and relationships to Science, evidence, and expertise: Separate but related
Science, evidence, and expertise
Family and relationshipsRank 1
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  • Separate but related themes
  • Related theme in the same family
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This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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2 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 2 distinct domains. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

2distinct source records documented
2distinct referring domains
0best available scholarly cited-by count
0books or volumes documented
2references retained by the source publication
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Publisher-held referencesChecked · August 31, 2026
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Collective corpus linksIndexed · August 31, 2026
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