Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1913 — DESERTS SHOW GIRL [ARTICLE]

DESERTS SHOW GIRL

Son of Ohio Millionaire Finds Ranch Life Too Slow. Former Member of the “Floradora” Sextet Left Alone on Texas Farm by Son of Harry M. Daugherty— Was Husband’s Manager. Fort Worth, Tex. —Dessa Gibson, show girl, who two years ago married Draper Daugherty, son of the millionaire politician of Columbus, 0., is alone in her ranch house, and confesses she failed in the task of making a farmer out of the former Broadway favorite. Daugherty has gone back to New York. The young woman, backed by two powerful motives, worked bravely to make a staid business man and husband out of the millionaire’s son, whose business experience has been limited to the purchase of cigarettes, wine, taxicabs, theater tickets and Broadway friends. The motives could not have been improved upon. They were her love for Daugherty and the promise of the father’s millions. Today she has lost both, unless the elder Daugherty or the courts give her a few hundred thousand dollars. Mrs. Daugherty accepted the commission two years ago. She had married Draper after he had followed her from Columbus, 0., where his father is a millionaire politician, to Buffalo, N. Y. Harry M. Daugherty promptly had cut off his son’s allowance and Dessa had returned to the stage to keep her husband in cork tips and things. Daugherty pere, however, investigated the young woman and found that she had been a real good girt The meanest thing he heard about her was that there were 599 others who had been in the original "Florodora” sextet. So in February, 1910, he relented and decided to put the pair on stern probation. Knowing Draper and knowing that be would not be likely to submit to leading by a show girl with the same grace that be had displayed in following her kind. Father Daugherty made his daughter-in-law general business manager o this son. Also he made her treasurer and auditor.

lean war of independence, on the inside history of which, from the British side these documents could shed invaluable light All these missing papers have just been found in the* cellars of Apstey house, residence of the duke of Wellington, whose grandfather, the great duke, was one of George IV’s trustees. They have lain in the cellars 100 years. Their character was discovered by accident, when some repairs were being carried out. Three van loads of them have been removed to Windsor, where the royal librarian has been intrusted by the king with the task of arranging them and selecting parts of them for publication.