Month: November 2019

The Things You Find

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 13, 1910.
Rev. Shields was my great-grandfather. And Cermak was Cermak.
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And in case you wondered what a smartass looked like at the turn of the last century, we have this snip about women trying to get men to sign dry petitions.
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Ex Libris

Genealogy sometimes feels like quicksand.

Instead of writing a blog post this weekend, I spent far too much time listening to Adele and creating a photo album for a past vacation. I knew perfectly well that I was stalling. I was operating in the nostalgia I could handle, rather than the uncomfortable one that actually needed my attention.

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No Elastic Waists Allowed

Do you have your Thanksgiving GOWN ready? And you should definitely have a nice velveteen suit for the big football game.

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