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The Judge's Ledger: Eleven Women Ordered Out of Stover, 1891
The Judge's Ledger: Eleven Women Ordered Out of Stover, 1891
A leather-bound court ledger stamped with the gold seal of Fenwick County surfaced in 2009, listing eleven local women ordered to vacate within thirty days under Judge Aldus Crane’s signature - yet no official docket or case file for the proceeding exists. How could sixty-one pages of precise 1891 handwriting survive intact while seven weeks of the county record simply "never accumulated," and what happened to Cynthia Whitfield after her name appears as entry seven?
In this episode, we follow the ledger’s discovery, the surviving…
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