Molly Tobin wanted to marry money, but she married J.J. Brown instead. "Finally, I decided that I'd be better off with a poor man whom I loved than with a wealthy one whose money had attracted me," she said. And it worked out well for her, J.J. Brown invented a system of shoring up mine walls and made millions. But before all that, Molly… Continue reading Molly Brown
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Josephine Baker
“. . . I improvised, crazed by the music. . . . Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever. Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.” Josephine Baker only spent the first 15 years of her life in Missouri but… Continue reading Josephine Baker
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