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Periodically she went to prison for shoplifting. Between her first arrest in 1914 and her last in 1930, she had spent eight years in jail. Between sentences she married Jaffray Davis, drug addict, who gave her the narcotic habit. Other men kept her living in style while she worked in a burlesque chorus. When in prison, she would send well-written logical letters to her benefactors, deploring her lack of gratitude, begging for "another chance." Once free, she immediately relapsed to her old habits...
...spent 50 years of his life in the small and large banks of Minnesota. Vice President is Lyman Wakefield, head of First National of Minneapolis. The list of directors, incomplete last week, is to include the presidents of seven railroads. Chairman of the Board is Clive T. Jaffray, President of the SooLine (previously president of the First National of Minneapolis). Other railroad presidents already on the board are Ralph Budd, head of Great Northern, and Charles Donnelly, head of Northern Pacific. Besides bankers of four States (including James E. Woodward, president of Metals Bank of Butte and Sam Stephenson, president...
Some people will write almost anything for money; William Randolph Hearst will pay them for it and publish it. In the March Cosmopolitan, Mrs. Elizabeth Jaffray, onetime White House housekeeper (TIME, Nov. 15), tells in one breath that President Harding used to drink whiskey with his friends in the White House after the 18th Amendment was passed; in the next breath that she put her arms around Mrs. Harding after the President's death, while the widow murmured: "Oh, Mrs. Jaffray...
...Elizabeth Jaffray, White House housekeeper during four administrations, was induced to write some of her reminiscences for Mr. Hearst's Cosmopolitan magazine. She classifies the Presidents and their wives thus...
There is one bed in the White House which Mrs. Jaffray regards as hoodooed. Said...