Two Shop Girls Seek Different Futures In City Life
In 1906, Lou and Nancy, two country girls in the city, navigate work and status. Lou dries clothes for $18.50 weekly while Nancy longs for higher paid, fashionable roles. Their talk mixes work, clothes, and dreams of vaudeville or luxury, with a wary eye on class and aspiration.
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McClure Co
Fifth Avenue
Lou
Nancy
Gabriel
Dad
Dan
Mary
Nance
Pittsburg
Ella Maginnis
Nancy Calm
Nancy's Rise and the Price of a Bride in a Small Town
Nancy, a store clerk, sustains herself on frugal wages while chasing a richer life through marriage to Dan. Her view of wealth shifts from luxury to truth and kindness as Lou’s life changes, and Nancy plots a larger escape. A park encounter with a sobbing laborer and a smooth faced cop hints at social tension. Albert Mock leaves Plainville to join the Weather Bureau in Washington, taking a secure government post after his marriage.
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Lou
Dan
Romeo
Owens
Danforth
Nancy
Tiffany’s
Squire
Sparrow
Esau
Sixth Avenue
Ace
Europe
New Order
Albert Mock
Plainville
Oakland City
Washington City
Weather Bureau Department
Mock
Daviess County
Elva Killiot
Killion
Van Buren Wedding Ties O Maley and Woodruff Couple
Terrence OMaley and Miss Maud Woodruff united in marriage by Rev I F Stanton at St Joseph's church Sunday morning. The bride is daughter of Starlin Woodruff and the groom, son of the late Charles O Maley, is a young farmer. They will reside in Van Buren township.
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Terrence O’maley
Maud Woodruff
van Buren Township
I. F. Stanton
St. Joseph’s Church
Starlin Woodruff
Charles O’ Maley
Road to body site notes distance and arrestees
The account describes a two hundred yard approach to the discovery site near a corn strip and fodder, with the killer taking risks as passersby occur daily. Authorities moved quickly as farmer neighbors were at home, the elder Cole requesting immediate jail transfer to avoid rough treatment, and no protest occurred. No further action is expected until the November circuit court term.
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Cole
Circuit Court
Woman Taken to Evansville for Abscess Operation
Gill ambulance called at the L. B. Johnson home in Veale township Tuesday morning to transport his sister to Evansville for hospital care. She has suffered for some time and will receive treatment for an abscess at the Evansville hospital.
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Gill Ambulance
L. B. Johnson
Veale Town
Evansville
Former Daviess Coroner Elias Grace Dies at 84
Elias Grace former coroner of Daviess county died at his Oakland City home Monday at age eighty four. He was a Civil War veteran.
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Daviess County
Oakland City
Bonham Buys Terre Haute Undertaking Firm
Clifford O. Bonham former Washington resident has purchased the J H Esketh Undertaking Establishment on North Fourth Street Terre Haute and will take possession immediately. He will move his family to Terre Haute next week.
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Clifford O. Bonham
Washington
J. Hesketh Undertaking
North Fourth Street
Terre Haute
Mr Bonham
Terre
Father and son held in murder of cousin near Alfordsville
Steve Cole and his son Charles Cole are jailed after a preliminary hearing in Alfordsville on murder charges. The two men, living on neighboring farms, were bound over to circuit court and arraigned with evidence from the widow and coroner’s inquest indicating a daylight shooting in an open corn field.
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Steve Cole
Charles Cole
George Cole
Alfordsville
Squire Gilley
Colbert
Cole
George” Cole
Steve
Brom
W. E. M. Meeting At Christian Church
The W. E. M. group meets Wednesday at 7:00 PM with hymn Bible lesson from Isaiah 40 9 11 and 28 31 led by Mrs Lizzis Garten. Roll call quotes Tidings and prayers precede missionary recitations by Myrtle Hindman Laura McNeely Hattie Keck and others. Members discuss Snapshots and pledge best advertising plan best offering plan and best individual help for day success.
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Myrtle Hindman
Laura McNeely
Hattie Keck
Duett
Mesdamer Lane
Garten
Best
Minne Lane
Ollie ‘DeMatte
Sallie Hyeston
Dan Abraham
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O. Henry
Deska
van Buren
Washington Democrat
Daviess
Elias Grace
Haute
Grand Jury
Mur
Dered Man
Charles
Coles
L. W. E. M. Meeting
Christian Church
Lizzis Garten
Lizzie Callahan
Season of Prayer
Cortright
A. Jolliff & CO
Picture Sale
Odon Drug CO
Bert E. Sneed
Mgr
Odon Realty DO
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