WOMAN REFUSES ADMITTANCE TO POOR FARM WITHOUT HER DOG
Chicago, Illinois (JFK+50) On September 6, 1925, The Sunday Star reports that Mrs. Alice Hamilton, a 65 year old "destitute woman," was sent to the Poor Farm* but was not accepted because she refused to be admitted without her dog.
Mrs. Hamilton said...
"Trilby has saved my life twice, and where I go, he goes, or I don't go."
A municipal judge has "postponed a decision" on the matter. In the meantime, she has been sent back to women's quarters at the South Clark Street station here in Chicago.
*Poor Farm, a.k.a. almshouse or county home, a publicly funded farm & residential institution providing food, shelter & basic care for the impoverished, disabled, and/or sick. They were eventually replaced by professional social services & special institutions.
SOURCE
"Woman, 65, Destitute, Spurns Home That Refuses Admittance to Her Dog," The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C., September 6, 1925, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
