[8] She had an older sister Helen, a school teacher, who took on the responsibility of providing for and educating her siblings after their father died; her mother was an invalid.

[3] She met people on the street, when bicycling through the city, to gather interesting news stories.

[3] Carrie Chapman Catt visited Colorado to help the drive for women's right to vote.

The bill was put on the ballot for the November 1893 election, and women were granted the right to vote in the state.

Other important suffrage activists included Elizabeth Piper Ensley, an African American suffragette of Denver; Dr. Ethel Strasser of Grand Junction; Caroline Nichols Churchill ; and Anna Chamberlain of Colorado Springs.

Four years later, she founded and was the first president of the Denver Women's Press Club, which supports journalists, publicists, and writers.

[2][3] The Press Club's purpose has been "To advance and encourage women in literary work, to cultivate acquaintance and friendship among women of literarv tastes, to secure the benefits arising from organized effort, and to drive dull care away.

[3] She wrote a column in the paper called "By the Bachelor Girl" in which she stated in 1903 that: 'The woman who cultivates her conversational powers in order to make herself agreeable to men hasn't a bit of sense' and 'No woman with a grain of sense ever lets a man gather from her remarks that his character offers any intricacies to her comprehension'.

[15] She also wrote "Ship Me Somewhere" in 1911 for The Times: Ship me somewhere west of Kansas where the earth's not crowded so;Where they have about four people to each square mile, you know; Where the atmosphere's been washed and dried and Ironed so smooth and fine That it seems a happy foretaste of some elixir divine.For I'm sick of all these people, swarming, sweltering to und fro.

Sick of twenty-storied scrapers, and the stony streets below; About this time each year It comes, that longing back to me.

For those spaces west of Kansas, where they stretch out wide and free.Oh, 1 love the locomotive, when her head is pointed West, And her wheels are swift revolving, it is then I love her best; Past the lake front at Chicago, cornfields rich of "old Miszoo,"Past the bluffs at Kansas City, westward portals rolling throughWhen my long day's work is over, and I toil und moil no more, don't plant me in the sodden earth upon this foggy shore; Ship me somewhere west of Kansas, where the great plains onward sweep‘Neath the shadow of the Rockies it is still, and I shall sleep.

[3] She drafted a proposed amendment for Congress that would grant women the right to vote across the United States in 1909.

[3][18] She saw the women attaining the right to vote in Washington state, California, Arizona, Oregon, Kansas, and New York by 1917.

She gave 100 speeches in the state of Washington alone and because she had built a national presence with her maiden name, she billed herself as Minnie Reynolds.

[4] She was back in Colorado when the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed in June 1918 and became law on August 26, 1920.

[21] Scalabrino was described by the University of Colorado Denver as a woman who "broke barriers as a female journalist and devoted her life to the fight for suffrage.