Tag: spinster

Old Ad of the Week: Masquerade

Source: Chicago Tribune; Nov. 3, 1940

Old Ad of the Week: Hot Tamale!

Source: Chicago Tribune; Nov. 21, 1937

Cora: The Bullet Hole (5)

Read the full Cora Stallman series here.

Wednesday, Aug. 5, 1925. Coles County, IL.

By August 5, Cora Stallman had been dead for five days, but investigators seemed no closer to finding out how that had happened. The truth continued to evade them like a silver fish in a summer pond, always a second beyond their grasp.

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Old Ad of the Week: Still Single

Source: Chicago Tribune; July 18, 1937

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

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