The Cataract House Hotel in Sufas

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Many women in the divorce colony stayed at the cataract house hotel. While they were waiting for their divorces, they went for walks, gamboled and attended performances. One stage comedy called divorce was opening when blanche arrived. And there were huge parties celebrate once they'd gotten what they'd come for. The divorce of honor wore her wedding gown for the occasion. Blanche's arrival in soue falls was front page news back in new York.

This episode picks up where Episode 193 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order.

Blanche Molineux visited her husband while he was in prison for murder to keep up what she called the “ghastly pretense.” But eventually, she couldn’t keep it up anymore, and bought a train ticket to a place called "The Divorce Colony."

April White’s book is The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier.

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