Word: tanner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tannersville Mrs. Adams is considered something of a character. She is supposed to have inherited a considerable fortune from her husband, George L. Adams, a tanner. She owns several automobiles, yet is frequently seen walking the nine miles between Tannersville and Stroudsburg, or hailing motorists for a lift. Tall and lean, she dresses plainly, wears cotton stockings. She plays the piano with exceptional skill, is locally famed as a china-painter. During the War she was under surveillance as a pro-German, suspected of being a distant relative of General Erich Ludendorff...
Fast women and slow ponies are known to have wrought ruin on many a man. In Illinois last week, nimble-fingered men and a deck of cards brought disgrace to a woman. The woman is Mrs. Myrtle Tanner Blacklidge, longtime supporter of Senator Deneen, who got her the job of collector of Internal Revenue for the district of northern Illinois. The story of how she happened to lose $207,000 in paper profits at a Springfield faro game, plus $50,000 in cash loaned her by Edward R. Litsinger, also a Deneenman and member of the Cook County Board...