Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Residents of the following 20 states must register in person before their local board to be permitted the absentee ballot: Alabama, Connecticut, Deleware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming...
Last week Minna died at 80, a wealthy and dignified dowager. Ada sent her body to Virginia for a burial befitting a Southern gentlewoman...
...most luxurious bordello which the U.S. ever saw was Chicago's Everleigh Club. It was run by the Virginia-born Everleigh sisters, Minna and Ada, two corseted women who insisted on being treated as gentlewomen at all times...
...week's end, West Virginia state police reopened the Porter case, at the countess' request, and the courts were asked to seize Porter's records. Meanwhile Washington had another death to gossip about. Elizabeth Kenney Hynes, 50-year-old society editor of the Times-Herald, was found dead in her Georgetown home. Detectives found a bottle of sleeping tablets nearby, and her brother told the Washington Post that she had been despondent because Cissie Patterson had not kept a promise to "clear the mortgage" on her house. A preliminary autopsy report showed, however, that she died...
...order to meet the $5000 cost of last year's Virginia trip, the band found itself forced to solicit money and to draw on its reserves from the previous year...