
Over the next decade, however, various factors arose which lead to the David Stern again raised readership to 315,000 by the early 1930s. Record had begun to decline, but its purchase by J. By the time of Rodman Wanamaker’s death in 1928 the readership of the Philadelphia Record as “one of the best and most widely circulated newspapers in the United States.” William Singerley died in 1898, and the paper then went into the hands of the Wanamaker family of Philadelphia. The paper proved so successful under Singerly that, in 1894, the Record in 1877, and then did so again in 1879, calling it the

Singerly, who acquired the paper from Swain in 1877, first renamed it the Philadelphia Record newspaper was established as the Thus begins a hilarious and heartwarming tale of lesbian culture shock, the resiliency of true love, and the maddening gap between coming out and being out.Philadelphia Record Photograph Morgue (Collection V07), Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Bev is shocked when Andie tells the woman that the two of them are cousins - and mortified when the woman promises to set them up with all the eligible men in town, beginning with her grandson Cricket, the local mortician. Before she and Andie are even unpacked, a nosy neighbor is at the door with a welcoming cake and a basketful of personal questions. But she isn't too thrilled about the prospect of moving from Boston's lesbian ghetto to the small southern town of Morgan, Kentucky. Your job's your public life, and I'm your dirty little secret! When Bev's lover Andie receives an assistant professorship at a Christian-affiliated college, Bev does her best to be supportive. Ever since we moved here, you've set up this big dividing line between your job and me. When we moved in together seven years ago, I thought I was settling down with someone who had some personal integrity.

Stop it Bev! Huge tears were rolling down Andie's cheeks.
