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...Mercer's Maidens. In a negative way the emigrants influenced the New England they deserted, for by stripping their home states of cash and customers they left a lot of the stay-at-homes out of work. The New England spinster, not always old and homely, was also a product of the exodus of Yankee men. The thought of all those girls back East going to waste drove western bachelors wild, made them plead for someone "to bring a few spareribs to [the western] market." Finally a personable young bachelor named Asa S. Mercer, first president of the brand...
...venture made Asa Mercer a local hero, helped win him election to the territorial legislature without an opposing vote, and inspired him to try the stunt all over again a year later. But this time he had his troubles. Willing Yankee maidens were not at fault; they signed up by the hundreds. The trouble started when the New York Herald howled that Mercer's maidens were headed for Northwest brothels. Reluctantly, two-thirds of his charges saved their reputations by backing out; Mercer managed to get a scant hundred of them on the boat. Because some deserted...
...Yankee Exodus has some arid stretches, notably the endless lists of early settlers' names that appear in every chapter. But dozens of such rousingly written real life tales as the saga of Seattle's Mercer Girls will be bounty enough for readers who follow the Yankee trails all the way West...
ROBERT S. ORR Mercer...
...well as a downstairs dressing room (just between those used by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby). She made pressagents tear up her first publicity stills and shoot another set. When she visited the music department and was asked what sort of thing she did, she leaped onto Composer Johnny Mercer's back with a wild yell: "I do something like this. Get it?" She greeted dignified Cecil B. DeMille with "Hiya, dreamboat...