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Voice Bernhardt Praises Cedar Rapids’s Eunice Glass History
Eunice A. Glass now Mrs. Patrick C. Madison recalls Sarah Bernhardt praising her voice during a Coe College Institute rehearsal in 1880. The Cedar Rapids resident, with roots in the Glass family, recounts a life rich in local history from post office boxes to early mills and Lockard and Skey’s business college where she became its first hired teacher.
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Joe McCormick, JR
Sarah Bernhardt
Eunice Glass
Coe Collegiate Institute
Eunice A. Glass
Patrick C. Madison
Center Point Road
Bernhardt
Sarah
Mrs Madison
Court House
Marion
Madison
Cedar Rapids
First Post Office
John P. Glass
P.O
Mal
ORC
Glass
John P Gilasx
Pittsburgh
John Dodge
Blew Dede
John
John Po Gslass
Nick Brown
Mrs. Madison
The
Cedar Rapids Business College
Lockard and Skey’s Business College
Dows
S. H. Goodyear
Joe Livingston
Cedar River
Western Mortgage Company
Big Springs
Hell’s Half Acre
Hell's Whole Acre
Homer D
Charles J. Madison