The Things You Find

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 13, 1910. Rev. Shields was my great-grandfather. And Cermak was Cermak. 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. ☗     © 2019 Tori Brovet/All…

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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  1. Gertrude’s Window – Graveyard Snoop

    […] As I’ve mentioned, my great-grandfather James Kurtz Shields was a pastor and prohibitionist here in Chicago. I think he was a man of tremendous ambition. Around 1891, he arrived in Chicago as a Pennsylvania farmer’s son. By 1906, he was running the Illinois chapter of the Anti-Saloon League. In that time, he also graduated from Northwestern, got married, started his family, founded a church, was widowed, and got remarried. […]

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