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ALVINA POPPE’S ACCIDENT.White Woman Who Married a Negro Pell from Pront Door at Home of Colored Friends.a;Csi\\WCAlvina Poppe. a white woman of a ' ?m good family who created a sensation ' sp ^orae years ago by marrying a colored | m? man with whom she still lives on Har- bi1 rison street, above Sixth, was the victim of a serious accident yesterday afternoon and at a late hour last night j is was reported to ho in a very critical {po condition. She was visiting some col- 1 K\ ored friends in what is known asiry Frahm’s alley, back of the residence of j er Rev. Fall. Here she assisted in the I es] consumption of several pitchers of beer 1 lor and about 4 o’clock started for home. ! Fa In making her exit from the house she ! pp slipped and fell from a doorway on the , tin second floor. She at once became un-1 conscious. Her negro friends thought nothing serious had happened, and, af-jtor washing her face and brushing the dust off her cloth inc. allowed her to remain where she was. Here she lay until 6 o'clock, when Jailor' Eldridge |heard of the condition of affairs and summoned the ambulance. The wo-I man’s spine is injured.lt;ceicryAFF.
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Davenport Daily Republican
Davenport, Iowa, US
Tue, Oct 15, 1901
Page 4
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