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Rainelle, WV c.1919
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Built in 1875 w what looks like ‘70s updates
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Purina Chows Warehouse In West Virginia Now A Fabulous Home!
Ever on the hunt for unique and historic places, House Crazy Sarah recently came across this gem. This big blocky historic building has been an iconic landmark in Grafton, West Virginia for over a century. It started out as a warehouse/distributor for pet food, then was used as a grocery store, and most recently, a hardware shop. Someone came along in recent years and said “hey, wouldn’t this…
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nesbittrealty11 · 1 year
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Property Manager in Virginia
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What a bargain- This adorable 1875 converted church in West Union, West Virginia comes with the structure next door that’s a garage and a bedroom w/a bath. There’s a total of 4bd  2ba PLUS your own, what the real estate describes as, “old timey cemetery.” All this for only $220K. 
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Walk thru the lovely church double doors to an open space living area.
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It’s very roomy and you can set it up any way you like.
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It could accommodate a larger dining table.
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The kitchen is well-equipped and a nice large size.
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The kitchen has an adorable everyday dining area. 
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This is nice. 
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Two of the bedrooms. Aren’t they cozy? And look at the cute little windows.
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The guest house has two beautiful porches. 
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I would imagine that the first floor is all garage. 
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The guest house bedroom and shower.
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Interior of the garage.
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And, here’s your old timey cemetery. The lot that the home is on is 1 acre. 
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/354-Cabin-Run-Rd_West-Union_WV_26456_M97845-93833
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liminalmemories21 · 1 year
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WIP Wednesday
Tagged by @rmd-writes and @welcometololaland.  Thank you!
I kind hate everything I’ve written this week - not in the right mood to write.  But, something from the Road Trip Angst story I’m trying to get back to, instead.
They’ve crossed into West Virginia when TK says, “I want to pay for my half of the loft.”
He’s caught between two big rigs and the camaro is being jostled in their wake and he says, “What?”
TK shifts.  “I want to pay you back for half of the down payment for the loft.”
He finally manages to break free of the two trailers and spares a glance at TK.  “I thought the terms of the trust said that you couldn’t touch the capital until you were 35.”
TK raises an eyebrow.  “Because Mom didn’t trust me with money?”  He waves away Carlos’s attempt to refute it, although he can’t think of another reason why Gwen would have worded her will that way.  “It’s fine, I’ve got a bad track record with money, and a worse track record with making good decisions, I don’t blame her for being cautious.”  He tucks his leg under him, half turning towards Carlos.  “She left an exemption for real estate, and Enzo says it would allow for me to do this.”  There’s a brief pause, and then TK adds, “I asked specifically.”
Carlos nods cautiously.  “Okay.  Can I ask why?”
He can feel TK’s raised eyebrows without having to turn his head to see them.  “Why would I want to pay for half of the loft you’re letting me own?”  Carlos winces and TK flushes.  “Sorry, that was mean.  I just, I know my name is on the deed, and I pay half the mortgage, but you still bought it.  We keep saying that this is equal, but we both know it’s not.  And, now I can do something about it, so why won’t you let me?”
I’m not sure who there is left to tag, but if you want to play, please play!
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Clara Brown (c. 1800 –October, 1885) was a kind-hearted, generous woman whose determination led her on a life-long quest to be reunited with her daughter. Born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia in 1803, her earliest memory was of being sold on the auction block. She grew up in Logan County, Kentucky, married at age 18, and had four children. At age 36 her master, Ambrose Smith, d.ied and her family was sold off to settle his estate. Despite her continued enslavement, Clara Brown vowed to search for her ten-year-old daughter, Eliza Jane. For twenty years Clara worked for George Brown raising her new master’s children instead of her own.
In 1856 she was freed upon Master Brown’s d.eath allowing her, at age 53, to set out to find her daughter. Three years of searching in Kentucky, Missouri, and Kansas proved fruitless. Clara thought that perhaps Eliza Jane had joined the multitude of people that had gone to Pikes Peak hoping to find gold. Thus Clara’s search took her 700 miles west to the Colorado Territory gold fields. She had secured a job as a cook on a wagon train in exchange for the free transportation of her laundry pots. Her wagon train arrived in Cherry Creek, which was comprised of the rival twin cities of Denver and Auraria. There she set up a laundry business to serve the miners. After six months Clara left Denver and set up business in Mountain City (later Central City). Brown invested her earnings in real estate and acquired a small fortune. She became known in the community as “Aunt Clara” as she provided food, shelter, and nursing care to the townspeople.
When the Civil http://W.ar ended in 1865 Clara Brown returned east, first to Logan County, Kentucky and then, Sumner County, Tennessee in search of her daughter Eliza Jane. Brown offered her $10,000 in savings and earnings as a reward for news of her daughter. When her search proved unsuccessful Brown returned to Gilpin County, Colorado, bringing with her impoverished freed people she had befriended. In 1879, at the age of 76, Brown traveled to Kansas as an official representative of Colorado’s Governor Frederick Walker Pitkin who had offered to assist thousands of destitute “Exodusters” to relocate in Colorado. Clara Brown’s continual search for her daughter, her support for local churches and charities, and her financial assistance to young women who were educated at Oberlin College in Ohio eliminated most of her wealth.
In February 1882, however, when Brown was almost 80 years old, she received news that her daughter, Eliza Jane had been located in Iowa. In 1884 79-year-old Brown traveled to Iowa to reunite with her 56-year-old daughter. The same year Brown became the first woman member of the Colorado Pioneer Association which also provided a stipend for her lifetime of good works. Clara Brown died in Denver, Colorado in 1885. Slightly over a century later Brown was inducted into the Colorado Woman’s Hall of Fame in 1989.
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What was Lafayette's opinions on slavery? Sorry if this has been asked before ^^
Dear Anon,
excellent question! And please, never be sorry to ask anything. :-) While something like this has already been asked, I needed to update the post anyway.
The short answer is, La Fayette was decidedly opposed to the concept of slavery. But, just like with many white men of influence at that time – the matter was not quite that simple.
La Fayette had his first real exposure to the concept of slavery during his first visit to America. He soon could not quite understand how a people, fighting for Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness could keep other people in bondage. He furthermore witnessed first hand the bravery, ingenuity, cleverness and determination of enslaved people – one notable person here is James Armistead, later James Armistead Lafayette. When the state of Virginia refused to grant James his freedom after the end of the Revolutionary War, La Fayette used the full weight of his name to aide James, who rendered an invaluable service to La Fayette by spying for him on the British. The two men would later meet again during La Fayette’s tour to America 1824/25.
Back home in France with free time on his hand La Fayette wanted actions to follow his words. He wanted to show everybody that it was possible to abolish slavery – gradually at least. He wanted to purchase a plantation and a number of enslaved individuals and then teach them everything they needed to know – in his opinion at least, to be freed. He told Washington (and a number of other people) about his idea and tried to enlist his aide. In general, La Fayette often discussed the matter of slavery with Washington, who owned quite a number of enslaved individuals himself, and even tried to convince him of freeing all these men and women. La Fayette hoped that Washington’s greater than life reputation would convince other people to do so as well. Washington’s reputation and great name were also surely among the reasons why La Fayette wanted his help with regard to his plantation-project. He wrote the following in a letter to Washington on February 5, 1783:
Now, My dear General, that You are Going to Enjoy some Ease and Quiet, Permit me to propose a plan tot you Which Might Become Greatly Beneficial to the Black part of Mankind—Let us Unite in Purchasing a small Estate Where We May try the Experiment to free the Negroes, and Use them only as tenants—Such an Example as Yours Might Render it a General Practice, and if We succeed in America, I Will chearfully devote a part of My time to Render the Method fascionable in the West indias—if it Be a Wild scheme, I Had Rather Be Mad that Way, than to Be thought Wise on the other tack.
“To George Washington from Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 5 February 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, [This is an Early Access document from The Papers of George Washington. It is not an authoritative final version.] (01/25/2023)
For the next three years, not, much was happening – until La Fayette wrote Washington again on July 14, 1785:
You Remember an idea which I imparted to you three years ago—I am Going to try it in the french Colony of Cayenne—But will write more fully on the Subject in my other letters.
“To George Washington from Lafayette, 14 July 1785,” Founders Online, National Archives, [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, vol. 3, 19 May 1785 – 31 March 1786, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994, pp. 120–121.] (01/25/2023)
He wrote again to Washington on February 6, 1786:
(…) an other Secret I intrust to you, my dear General, is that I Have purchased for Hundred And twenty five thousand French livres a plantation in the Colony of Cayenne and am going to free my Negroes in order to Make that Experiment which you know is My Hobby Horse.
“To George Washington from Lafayette, 6 February 1786,” Founders Online, National Archives, [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, vol. 3, 19 May 1785 – 31 March 1786, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994, pp. 538–547.] (01/25/2023)
La Fayette had instructed his attorney to buy property in French Guiana in a letter on June 7, 1785 with the condition that he would “neither sell nor exchange any black.“ The 125.000 Livre he paid translate roughly to 1.250.000 modern US Dollar. The plantation was named La Belle Gabrielle and was the “home” of just under seventy individuals between the ages of a few months and 59 years (I have sadly never seen a more precise number). The Administer of the plantation, a Monsieur de Geneste, send La Fayette a list with the names, ages, and descriptions of these people. Here is the first page of his report.
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Intendant L. de Geneste. “List of Negro Slaves Selected by Daniel Lescallier” for Lafayette’s Experimental Plantation. March 1, 1789, La Fayette: Citizen of Two Worlds, Cornell University. (01/25/2023)
La Belle Gabrielle was a clove and cinnamon plantation and after La Fayette bought the property, he employed the following changes. The people there were paid, given free time and days off and an education. Furthermore, the severity of their punishments was toned down to resemble the punishment that any free white labourer would face under similar circumstances. He soon bought additional property because La Belle Gabrielle did not sustain itself, since the production was switched to less labour intensive and less profitable crops. When the French Revolution really hit it off in 1789, La Fayette had less and less time to spend on his “hobby horse” as he called it. His wife Adrienne, who was involved from the begin, took over and managed now most of the plantation’s affairs. Adrienne was a very religious person and the moral and religious education of the people on the plantation was for her of great importance. Shee corresponded regularly with Miolas Jacquemin, a missionary who lived in a settlement of missionaries close by the plantation. It seems as though he not only reported to her what was happening on the plantation but that he and his fellow missionaries also coordinated the religious education of the people there.
In 1792, when the National Convention called for La Fayette’s arrest and he was captured by the Prussians, his properties were sold, including his plantation. His improvements on the plantations were revoked. In February of 1794 the Convention abolished slavery and French Guiana was actually one of the places that was reached by the new law while in many French colonies things continued like they were despite the new law. Furthermore, French Guiana was one of the few places that did not see a lot of violent upheaval during this time – something La Fayette later in life took great comfort in.
Jules Germain Cloquet wrote about this whole endeavour:
But he was not content with sterile wishes; and on his return to France, flattering himself, like Turgot and Poivre, that the gradual emancipation of the negroes might be conciliated with the personal interests of the colonists, he was desirous of establishing the fact by experience, and for that purpose he tried a special experiment, on a scale sufficiently large to put the question to the test. At that period, the intendant of Cayenne was a man of skill, probity, and experience, named Lescalier, whose opinions on the subject coincided with those of Lafayette. Marshal de Castries, the minister of the marine, not only consented to the experiment, but determined to aid it by permitting Lescalier to try upon the king's negroes the scheme for a new system. Lafayette had at first devoted 100,000 francs to this object: he confided the management of the residence which he had purchased at Cayenne to a man distinguished for philosophy and talent named Richeprey, who generously devoted himself to the direction of the experiment. The seminarists established in the colony, and above all the Abbé Farjon, the curate of it applauded and encouraged the measure. It is but justice to the colonists of Cayenne to say, that the negroes had been treated with more humanity there than elsewhere.
Richeprey’s six months’ stay there, and the example set by him before he fell a victim to the climate, contributed still further to assuage their lot. Larochefoucauld was to purchase another plantation as soon as Richeprey’s establishment had met with some success, and a third was afterwards to be bought by Malesherbes, who took a cordial interest in the plan. The untimely death of Richeprey, the difficulty of replacing such a man, the departure of the intendant, and a change in the ministry, threw obstacles in the way of this noble undertaking. When Lafayette had been proscribed in 1792, the National Convention confiscated all his property, and ordered his negroes to be sold at Cayenne, in spite of the remonstrances of Lafayette, who protested against the sale, observing that the negroes had been purchased only to be restored to liberty after their instruction, and not to be again sold as objects of trade and speculation. At a later period, all the negroes of the French colonies were declared free by a decree of the National Convention. It is nevertheless remarkable, that some of Lafayette’s plans with regard to slave emancipation were realized: Cayenne, the only one of our colonies in which the example set by him of instructing the negroes had been followed, was also the only colony in which no disorders took place. Urged by gratitude, the negroes of his plantation declared to Richeprey’s successor that if Lafayette’s property was confiscated they would avail themselves of their liberty, but that in the opposite case they would remain and continue to cultivate his estate. Lafayette was desirous of emancipating the negroes only by degrees and in proportion as their moral intellectual education rendered them worthy of freedom. He foresaw all the inconveniences that might the sudden emancipation of a people debased by slavery, and the dangers that must follow their transition from a state of brutal degradation to one entire liberty, - a state that must prove to them more than one of unbridled licentiousness, of despotism would artfully take advantage, as of a weapon, first to establish, and next to justify sway. For man, in fact, there are moral as well physical transitions. The prisoner enfeebled by a confinement in dark dungeons cannot, without danger, be suddenly restored to the light of day. The slave, like manner is, fitted to enjoy liberty only after enlightenment as to the privileges which it confers, duties which it imposes, and the limits prescribed to by reason and justice. But, in Lafayette’s opinion, the greater the difficulties that impeded the abolition of slavery, the more energetic should be the zeal, the more persevering the efforts, of the genuine to obtain so honourable a result; and he saw with pain that paltry considerations of interest paralysed the hearts of some who might have given a impulse to negro emancipation.
Jules Germain Cloquet, Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette, Baldwin and Cradock, London, 1835, pp. 152-154.
Even after this failed project and his personal hardships, he continued to be outspoken. He was a member of several manumission societies and corresponded with abolitionists all around the world. He and his wife Adrienne joined the Society of the Friends of Blacks right when it was founded in 1788. He was unanimously named a member of the Society for the Emancipation of the Blacks. He was also Vice-President of the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America. His last known letter was written to an abolitionist society in Glasgow. Interestingly, one of the few letter we have written by La Fayette to his daughters and daughters-in-law talks about slavery:
(…) there [Florida and Louisiana] is only one point to which I decidedly cannot resign myself: that is slavery, and the anti-Black prejudices. I believe that in this respect my travel might have been useful. The fact that I asked to meet with colored men who fought on January 8 was another proof of what I am preaching continuously, not for the beauty of it, but in order to bring gradual healing.
Lafayette. Letter to his Daughters and Grand-daughters. New Orleans, April 15, 1825, La Fayette: Citizen of Two Worlds, Cornell University. (01/25/2023)
La Fayette was praised and quoted by many abolitionists that came after him, Frederick Douglass quoted letters between George Washington and La Fayette in relation to the plantation in Cayenne in his news paper. Senator Charles Sumner famously quoted a letter by La Fayette to John Adams from February 22, 1786:
(…) in the Cause of My Black Brethren I feel Myself Warmly interested, and Most decidedly Side, so far as Respects them, Against the White part of Mankind— Whatever Be the Complexion of the Enslaved, it does not, in my opinion, Alter the Complexion of the Crime Which the Enslaver Commits, a Crime Much Blaker than Any Affrican face— it is to me a Matter of Great Anxiety and Concern to find that this trade is Some times perpetrated under the flag of liberty, our dear and Noble Stripes, to which Virtue and Glory Have Been Constant Standard Bearers—
“To John Adams from the Marquis de Lafayette, 22 February 1786,” Founders Online, National Archives, [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 18, December 1785–January 1787, ed. Gregg L. Lint, Sara Martin, C. James Taylor, Sara Georgini, Hobson Woodward, Sara B. Sikes, Amanda M. Norton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016, pp. 182–183.] (01/25/2023)
Most notable is perhaps this quote from La Fayette:
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Digital Commonwealth: Massachusetts Collections Online, Boston Public Library, Anti-Slavery (Collection of Distinction) (01/25/2023)
I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery.
The British abolitionist Thomas Clarkson claimed that La Fayette wrote the above quote in a letter to him. This quote was printed on broadsides as seen above and distributed in America, mainly in New England I think. While it can be debated if La Fayette really said it like this, the publication of the broadsides had an enormous impact.
We could conclude the matter here and agree that La Fayette really meant well, he was opposed to slavery and earnestly wanted to do something. Were all of his believes as enlightened as he might have wanted them to be? Definitely not! Could some of his measures have been more thoughtful, more effective - in simple term “better”? Certainly! But La Fayette tried, and he meant well – while meaning well is still far cray from doing the right thing, it is still something.
We however, have to talk about two further aspects, something that some contemporary books often like to gloss over, because it is not quite that pretty and simple.
There is this letter from Henry Laurens to La Fayette, dated October 23, 1777:
I have not seen the french Gentleman who did me the honour to bring your Letter, but will enquire of your black Servant where he may be found & you may depend upon me Sir to attempt, at least, to Serve him, nor shall the Subject concerning Mr. De Valfort depart from my mind.
Idzerda Stanley J. et al., editors, Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776–1790, Volume 1, December 7, 1776–March 30, 1778, Cornell University Press, 1977, pp. 126-128.
The “black Servant” that Laurens refers to was an enslaved man that La Fayette’s aide-de-camp Edmund Brice purchased for 180 Pounds on August 4, 1777. We no neither the name of the men, his age, nor his fate. This is the only reference that we find in La Fayette’s papers and it is hard to say what happened to the man. From context is fair to say that he probably was not long with La Fayette.
Then there is another matter, proposed by La Fayette in a letter. Take the following summary with a grain of salt, since I have only read the letter once and that was in a rush. The letter was in relation to the Canada expedition – the expedition was chronically underfunded and there was supposedly private property that had been confiscated, among the property were a number of enslaved individuals. La Fayette proposed that in selling these individuals, enough money could be raised. The expedition was aborted in the end and La Fayette never again came up with such ideas, so I like to think that he learned his lesson there.
This turned into a rather long post, but I think that this topic needs an in-depth discussion, especially since La Fayette tends to be put on a pedestal in some representations. As I already said, he meant well and had the best of intentions, even more so as he grew older, and he was determined to do something instead of twiddling his thumbs and his influence certainly helped the cause. He saw slavery as an evil that needed to be abolished. But we also have to see the wider picture and realize that he was an imperfect man with a fair amount of flaws.
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Is it expensive to live in a blue state and cheaper to live in a red state?
Yeah but that’s because red states *on average* are less desirable to live in. Most red states consistently rank lower on metrics such as education quality and health care, for instance.
Blue states are often more urban, where good-paying jobs are located. More people make higher salaries in Maryland and California than Alabama or West Virginia, for example. This, alongside higher pop density, in turn makes prices go up with a higher demand for goods and services.
Real estate is more expensive in blue states because of higher demand for the amenities and jobs located there. In the US, anyone who can afford a house in these areas can buy it, including foreigner investors or mega-property management companies. Real estate is more expensive in these areas because investors buy up valuable property. Those who want to live there are forced to pay the prices that are set.
I could go on, of course, but I think you get it. Also remember that a significant amount of blue state tax revenue goes towards red states’ public services because they don’t bring in enough money on their own
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A Cincinnati Housewife’s Career As A Novelist Was Cut Short By Censorship
As near as I can tell, not a single copy of Jean Randolph Searle’s novels is to be found in any Tri-State library, unless you count the book stacks at Anderson University, 88 miles away in Indiana.
It is ironic that many of the libraries holding Miss Searles’ books today are conservative Christian schools like Anderson, affiliated with the Church of God, Roman Catholic Carlow University in Pittsburgh, and “non-denominational conservative Christian” Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Virginia. The irony lies in the reception her books detonated in 1912 when they were condemned by the national and local branches of the Society for the Suppression of Vice as “too utterly indecent for our young to see.”
Jean Randolph Searles was a most unlikely pornographer. In fact, Jean Randolph Searles did not exist. That was merely the pen name of Adah Viola Benz of Price Hill, aka Mrs. George Benz, mother of two daughters and wife of an apparently quite successful real estate developer.
One might assume that Mrs. Benz, married to an established businessman, had the money to pay for the publication of her two 1912 novels herself – a practice known as vanity publishing. The books credit the “Press of Jennings & Graham,” a printer affiliated with Cincinnati’s Methodist Book Concern, a publishing house and bookstore located on West Fourth Street. The wording implies that Jennings & Graham published the books, but it is likely they only printed and bound them.
The books in question are “The Girl In The Slumber Boots” and its simultaneously published sequel, “Further Annals of the Girl In The Slumber Boots.” Although the books deal with marital infidelity and its consequences the (shall we say) “mechanics” of this infidelity are buried in baroque prose that relies ponderously on innuendo and not at all on forthright exposition.
In brief, Nell, the titular girl in the slumber boots (heavy knit slippers made to wear to bed) is unhappily married and walks in her sleep. One morning, she finds herself in the bed of an unhappily married doctor who leaves his apartment door unlocked. When Nell enters his darkened room in the wee hours, he thinks she is his wife and has his way with her. Somehow, this activity does not rouse the somnambulist and it is only when she awakens hours later that the full import of her transgression inspires her to action. Drama and trauma ensue, involving British gentry, ruined damsels, misadventures out West and the shenanigans of high society.
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According to Alfred Segal at the Cincinnati Post [26 November 1929], the Society for the Suppression of Vice may not have even read the book. Their censorious ire may have been directed toward the illustration opposite the title page:
“It showed a woman in a nightgown confronting a man in a bathrobe. Her hand seemed to flutter towards her face in fear. He stared at her with the glum expression which men on old-fashioned posters frequently had. That was too much for the purity of the day. The book officially was ruled out of the stalls and sent back to the author.”
None of the Cincinnati newspapers reviewed “The Girl In The Slumber Boots.” One of the few published reviews, from the Monroe City, Missouri, Democrat [12 December 1912] is more than a little vague in its appraisal:
“It is too bad that anyone capable of writing as interesting a story as this one spoils it by taking the wrong view of what is right and what wrong. To be sure she straightens out matters in the second volume, Further Annals of the Girl In The Slumber Boots, but she doesn’t look at life right. The books are not wholesome – are not what we would want our young people to read.”
Well, that was in 1912. By 1929 – only 17 years later! – when the Post’s Segal interviewed the author, times had changed. Hemlines had skyrocketed from floor-length to knee-length. Women now smoked in public, for goodness’ sake. The new morality was reflected in the racy novels of the Roaring Twenties. As Segal explained:
“Words that would have been strange to the Slumber Boot Girl were sprinkled all over the pages. Details which she would have locked forever in her heart were shouted in black type. The erstwhile author thought perhaps her hour had struck. If she had written naughty things (with indecent pictures) too early in the century, she now could make up for it.”
Mrs. Benz, by now living on Shiloh Avenue in Clifton, took copies of her books downtown to Fourth Street, to Bertrand L. Smith, proprietor of the Traveler’s Book Shop, later to be known as Bertrand Smith’s Acres of Books.
“Smith glanced at the ‘indecent’ pictures and smiled sadly. He skipped through a few lines of the intimate passages and smiled still more sadly. ‘Madame,’ he said, ‘this ain’t nuthin’.’”
Smith accepted Mrs. Benz’s books and put them on sale. Buyers told Smith it was a relief to find decent books still for sale in Cincinnati. Still, Mrs. Benz would not allow Al Segal to print her real name for fear the taint of prior condemnation might still adhere to it.
George Benz died in 1937. A couple years later, Adah Benz revived her pen name and published another novel, “Only A Substitute Wife.” This time, the book was actually accepted by a legitimate publisher, Ruter Press, who also issued books of Caroline Williams’ artwork. Adah’s third novel appears not to have sold well and copies are hard to locate.
Adah Viola Rohrer was born in Elkhart, Indiana, in 1872 and married George Benz, a young and ambitious carpenter, in 1896. The young couple moved to Cincinnati in 1906, where George, in partnership with Sherman Weigold, built and sold a good number of houses in the northeast portion of Northside. Both George and Adah, aka Jean Randolph Searles, are buried in Goshen, near Elkhart, Indiana.
Adah’s books, while not preserved in Cincinnati, are on file in the Library of Congress and perhaps a dozen other libraries. They can be located online, where original editions fetch $70 or more.
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Faculty and staff heard vague rumors about financial problems in late 2022, but the deficit was publicly announced only in March 2023. The crisis is largely caused by financial mismanagement; the university is running a $45 million deficit after a decade of real estate boondoggles, administrative bloat, and declining state funding. Instruction costs have declined but the administration is responding to the budget deficit by proposing a mass layoff of around 170 faculty and an undeclared number of staff this fall on top of 135 layoffs over the summer. Many departments may be closed or gutted to the point of not being able to function. Academic support units are also suffering: the library was forced to reduce its operational budget by thirty percent and currently cannot purchase books. Not a single senior administrator—many making at least five to ten times what most faculty earn—is taking a pay cut.
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introducing ; connell howard
cliff notes ;
FULL NAME: connell howard
GENDER: male
PRONOUNS: he/him
AGE: thirty-eight
DOB: june 13th
OCCUPATION: treasurer @ town hall
RESIDENCE: the town
RESIDENT or VISITOR: visitor
HUNTER or GATHERER: n/a - this may change depending on his stay
TITLE: the judge
FACECLAIM: chris evans
lets dig a little deeper ;
connell howard was born and raised in chicaco, illinois. he was the golden child to his parents; calton and carmen howard, calton a law firm partner with carson ainsley and carmen a real estate tycoon who has bought and sold chicago homes like it was nothing. from a young age, connell knew he had to be great. it helped that he had the brains to propel him forward in his academics and his father had made it perfectly clear what was expected of connell in terms of what his career would be - it was law.
life growing up for connell was lonely. his parents always away at work and him left with nannies or tutors to pass the time until they returned. it had gotten even more unbearable at thriteen when the wife of his fathers law partner had tragically died and his daughter was injured. much like carolina's life, his became fully supervised at all times and he was unable to find the breathing room that he desperately craved. it ironically became a bonding point for connell and carolina whenever their families got together for dinners or events and it was something that didn't go unnoticed by their fathers.
the older connell got, the more obvious it was to him that his father and carson had the intentions of pairing him and carolina up. connell had voiced this to his mother, begging her to talk to the two men to make them see sense. it wasn't just for his sake he was asking his mother to intervene, it was for carolina's. he didn't want her resenting him for the decisions of their fathers, he wanted her to be happy. unable to make them listen, connell chose to make the best of the situation and get to know carolina and date her beforehand. a year down the line, he was in love and the rest was history, the two getting married in 2019 with the grand fairytale wedding carolina wanted before jetting off for their honeymoon.
a month after returning from their honeymoon, they'd returned to work. carolina out working in west virginia and he in nevada. texting and calling back and forth to keep each other updated with day to day life while they were away on business, his concern grew when he'd received her text: carolina: i might miss my flight connell: what's wrong? is everything okay? are you okay?
that was four years ago.
his wife was declared a missing person after he raised his worries with both her father and his. he had real concern for his wife's safety and the case was quick to gain traction. unfortunately for connell, there really were no clues to go on other than the last phone tower her phone pinged on when she had sent her text. he spent four years searching in hopes to find her and have the reassurance that she was safe. on another trip out to west virginia, he got caught in a storm and headed to the nearest town to take cover until it passed, the road had taken him to hunstville.
you can imagine his surprise when he was told all that hunstville had to offer, especially when he was told he couldn't leave. being the man of sound logic that he was, he tried to leave, a lot, but he ended up right back in town. it was insane. was he going insane? he certainly felt like it when he was certain that he saw his missing wife in the distance.
additional information ;
husband to carolina - he keeps thinking he's seeing her around town. he's not sure if he's going mad or if she's actually alive
was a lawyer before he came to town - while hunstville seems like much of a lawless place at times, connell still has his lawyer mindset
because of his moral compass he was placed in the job role as treasurer of the town - a role that he takes seriously.
a big nerd
despite being a nerd, he's also in his himbo era
been in town just shy of a month - that month has been spent sorting out his new temporary home, working and trying to get his head around what the hell is going on
his family are a legacy family in relation to howard university out in DC - it's where he studied law
possible plots ;
spanner in the works - someone that gets close to connell & despite him being married he's caught up in this person.
information - connell's been on town a month and needs someone to fill him in of whats been going on
possible connections ;
new friends
best bros
acquaintances
dislike
co-workers
crush
neighbours
unlikely duo
will be updated to suit as connell’s time at huntsville progresses
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imeverywoman420 · 2 years
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2027 i am exposed by tumblr staff to be a west virginian bot. Similar to the russian bot thing. My blogs entire purpose is to appeal to horror fans hannibal fans nature hoes goth girls etc by talking about my “childhood” in west virginia and posting pictures of the beautiful nature and dilapidated houses for your weirdcore pinterest boards. Talking about seeing a cryptid in my bedroom and posting pictures of the depressing town i grew up in to make the hip young tumblr crowd think West virginia is some hidden aesthetic horrorcore gem and buy real estate and increase tourism.
Anyways this is what they call a library in west virginia. Can you believe it. So rustic and trailercore….
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