Business: Over the Falls

Nine years ago, an energetic, middle-aged spinster who had fought the good fight for women's votes, who was a lieutenant in an ambulance unit but did not get to France, who was a good friend and committee-mate of many of Manhattan's ablest socialites, took up the profession of helping other women make money. Daughter of a well-to-do Kentucky family, since girlhood she had speculated in the stockmarket, at the height of the boom was said to have piled up $6,000,000 profits. As an investment adviser, well-recommended by many a banker, she began...

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