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18
Atlanta Constitution
, August 10, 1917.

19
New York Times,
August 10, 1917.

20
Ibid.

21
Ibid.

22
New York Herald,
August 10, 1917.

23
Ibid.

24
New York Evening Telegram,
August 9, 1917.

25
Brooklyn Daily Eagle,
August 10, 1917.

26
New York Times,
August 10, 1917.

27
Ibid., August 11, 1917.

28
New York Sun,
August 11, 1917.

29
New York Times,
August 11, 1917.

30
New York Herald,
August 11, 1917.

31
Ibid.

32
Ibid.

33
New York Sun,
August 11, 1917.

34
New York Times,
August 11, 1917.

35
Ibid.

36
New York Herald,
August 11, 1917.

37
New York Evening Telegram,
August 11, 1917.

38
New York Sun,
August 11, 1917.

39
New York Times,
August 11, 1917.

40
Ibid., August 12, 1917.

41
New York Tribune,
August 12, 1917.

42
New York Sun,
August 12, 1917.

43
Washington Times,
August 12, 1917.

44
Ibid.

45
New York Evening Telegram,
August 12, 1917.

46
New York Tribune,
August 12, 1917.

47
New York Herald,
August 13, 1917.

48
Ibid.

49
New YorkTimes,
August 14, 1917.

50
New York Evening Telegram,
August 13, 1917.

51
Ibid.

52
Washington Times,
August 14, 1917.

53
After an abortive attempt at the movies, Joan Sawyer faded into obscurity.

54
Ithaca Daily News,
August 14, 1917.

55
Washington Times,
August 14, 1917.

56
New York Times,
August 15, 1917.

57
Daily Mirror,
August 27, 1917.

Eleven

1
A judge in some states (notably New York) responsible only for probates, estates, and adoptions.

2
New York Herald,
September 5, 1917.

3
New York Times,
September 6, 1917.

4
Ibid.

5
Ogdensburg (NY) News,
September 13, 1917.

6
Ibid.

7
New York Times,
September 19, 1917.

8
Ibid.

9
Ibid.

10
Ibid.

11
Brooklyn Daily Eagle,
October 2, 1917.

12
New York Sun,
October 18, 1917.

13
Brooklyn Daily Eagle,
October 18, 1917.

14
Elizabth Fry (1780–1845), an activist who did much to reform England’s prison system.

15
New York Evening Telegram,
October 28, 1917.

16
New York Tribune,
November 9, 1917.

17
Ibid.

18
New York Herald,
November 13, 1917.

19
New York Evening Telegram,
November 14, 1917.

20
Ibid.

21
New York Herald,
November 19, 1917.

22
New York Evening Telegram,
November 14, 1917.

23
New York Tribune,
November 17, 1917.

24
Evening World,
November 16, 1917.

25
Although the 19th Amendment extended the vote to women in 1920, it left the subject of jury service up to each state. In New York it was 1937 before women were made eligible for jury service on the same terms as men.

26
The term had been coined during the Thaw murder trial of 1907 to describe four female writers, Winifred Black, Dorothy Dix, Nixola Greeley-Smith, and Ada Patterson, who sat at their own special press table in the crowded courtroom, dispensing highly emotive coverage to their various employers.

27
Rome (NY) Daily Sentinel,
November 22, 1917.

28
Washington Times,
November 19, 1917.

29
Ibid.

30
New York Times,
November 20, 1917.

31
Ibid.

32
New York Tribune,
November 20, 1917.

33
Almost a decade later, this hotel would be where Charles Lindbergh spent his last night on American soil before his historic transatlantic flight.

34
New York Evening Telegram,
November 19, 1917.

35
Ibid., November 20, 1917.

36
Evening World,
November 20, 1917.

37
New York Evening Telegram,
November 20, 1917.

38
New York Herald,
November 21, 1917.

39
Ibid.

40
New York Evening Telegram,
November 20, 1917.

41
New York Herald,
November 21, 1917.

42
Brooklyn Daily Eagle,
November 22, 1917.

43
Ibid.

44
Ibid.

45
Ibid.

46
New York Herald,
November 22, 1917.

47
Ibid., November 23, 1917.

48
Atlanta Constitution,
September 2, 1917.