I’ve been dying to write this one.
Dorothy Eagles’ name was in those scraps my husband brought home, and this was the first photo I found of her.
Unearthed: Dorothy Eagles (Pt 1)
Friend to the friendless.
Month: May 2019
Old Ad of the Week: Mr. Coffee Nerves
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Chicago Tribune; Oct. 13, 1940
Cora: Anna and Thomas (4)
The farmer takes a husband.
Anna
Whatever path Cora Stallman followed into Coles County, Illinois, it was her older sister Anna who had cleared the way.
Anna must have been formidable. I’ve only found one photo of her, and you can barely see her face. At Cora’s inquest in late August 1925, she told the news photographers not to take her picture — and they obeyed.1
Graveyard Snoop 
