[1] She served as editor of the California Daily Report and the Castroville Enterprise, as well as special correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Detroit News-Tribune, The Grand Rapids Press, and San Francisco Chronicle.

[1] Her writing talent grew, and when at the age of seventeen she went out in the world to make a living for herself, she naturally turned to an editor's office.

[1] On April 3, 1891, with little money, a new Enterprise was started, this time in Castroville,[5] of which Francis was the sole editor, proprietor, and publisher.

It was the official organ of the Pacific Coast Women's Press Association and thus had a wider influence than ordinary newspapers.

[8] Between 1893 and 1902, Francis was a traveling newspaper correspondent and assisted Prof. Newton N. Riddel, the lecturer, in his research in heredity, sociology, psychic phenomena, and kindred topics.

[3] In July 1901, she gave four talks at the Rock Port Lecture Congress and Musical Jubilee, in Rockport, Missouri.