#madeline pollard

[handeaux]

The Immoral Lures Of Cincinnati’s Public Library

Throughout the history of Cincinnati, there were a great many “occasions of sin” ready to entrap young people and reduce their moral fortitude to wicked ashes. Houses of prostitution and saloons obviously spread their snares, but so did billiard parlors, theaters, circuses and amusement parks. Modern readers may be shocked to learn that Cincinnati spent several decades concerned about the lures of temptation offered by the Public Library.

On first impression, one might believe that this concern had something to do with literature, because Cincinnati still gets in a huff about literature. It is true that early librarians had to regularly explain that contemporary novels were not intended to guide Cincinnati youth onto the primrose path to perdition. Although Cincinnati begrudgingly accepted modern fiction as somewhat acceptable reading matter for young people, “immoral” books were another matter entirely, as the Cincinnati Gazette [30 July 1881] thundered:

“ . . . there are upon the shelves of the Public Library, intended for general circulation, books of an improper character full of moral poison . . . the road to ruin begins, in many cases, right at the counter of the Public Library, an institution sustained by taxation and under the control of the Board of Education.”

But no, the really big concern about the Public Library was the ability of men and women to meet in the alcoves to plot sexual escapades of unimaginable depravity.

Seriously.

Blaming the head librarian Thomas Vickers for this lascivious behavior, an anonymous correspondent fired off an accusatory letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer [27 October 1874]:

“I am able to prove . . . that the Library Building is frequented by prostitutes, and that it is used as a place of assignation by young girls. It is a general rendezvous for people who are on the loose. I know a number of young men who boast of the facility which the Library has afforded them in their nefarious business – all under the administration of the austere Vickers.”

Librarian Vickers instituted strict rules to ensure that the sexes were separated as distantly as possible in the Library. Men and women, for instance, received the books they requested at separate desks, and women had a dedicated reading room to keep nefarious men away. Unfortunately, a necessary remodeling project resulted in men and women collecting books at the same desk, and the Cincinnati Daily Star [12 January 1878] despaired of the consequences for Queen City morals:

“It will be remembered that when Mr. Vickers was appointed Librarian, it was found necessary, from an existing evil – a tendency to make the Library a rendezvous for the purpose of carrying on flirtations between the sexes – to prevent, by railings and strict regulations, the intermingling of the sexes. By the new system these barriers are removed, and all sexes and conditions of humanity are now brought into direct contact. This will be regretted by many.”

Part of the difficulty in maintaining moral quarantine was the human element – specifically the inability of the guardians of morality to determine at a glance who was innocent and who was depraved. The Cincinnati Gazette [22 August 1874] asserted that the blame did not lie with the designated enforcers, the Library watchmen:

“They can distinguish between a man and a woman, but their eyes are not sufficiently educated to tell whether a certain woman is the wife of a certain man. They are obliged to enforce the letter of the law – to make all the men take the one side, and all the women the other. Nearly every day some man becomes incensed at these watchmen, but if the former will only consider a moment, they will see that the latter are only doing their duty.”

All of this worry might have been nothing but local tut-tutting had Cincinnati’s Public Library not featured in one of the most celebrated breach-of-promise lawsuits in the entire 19th Century. A young Kentucky maiden sued a United States Representative from Kentucky named W.C.P. Breckinridge. Congressman Breckinridge, according to the plaintiff, Madeline Pollard, stalked her while she was a student at Cincinnati’s Wesleyan College for Women. He talked her into accompanying him on a carriage ride, during which he molested her, then arranged an assignation the next day at the Cincinnati Public Library.

According to a book on the case, “The Celebrated Case of Col. W.C.P. Breckinridge and Madeline Pollard,” by Fayette Lexington, published in 1894, Pollard testified:

“I went to meet him at the public library, as he had promised that if I would come there the next day he would attend to that matter for me. I went to the library and he told me that he could not talk with me there, because the rules prohibited conversation, and suggested that I go with him in the cars to the house of a friend, where he could talk over my business with me and determine what could be done. He took me in the cars to a point as near George street as the cars ran—a neighborhood with which I was  wholly unfamiliar, and in which I had never been—and walked with me to a house which he represented was the house of a friend of his. We were admitted and shown into a little parlor by a woman who then withdrew.”

George Street happened to be the epicenter of Cincinnati’s red light district, and the house Breckinridge took Pollard to was a brothel, in which he maintained her for several days before absconding with her to Lexington.

Breckinridge promised to marry Pollard after she bore him two children. She believed him so much that she published engagement announcements in several newspapers. He very publicly married another woman, so Pollard sued – and won.

All because of an assignation at the Cincinnati Public Library.

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Miss America by Keith Pollard (1991) Madeline Joyce Frank #marvel #comics #90s #superhero #missamerica #invaders #keithpollard #wwii #washington #america #wife #libertylegion #allwinnerssquad https://www.instagram.com/p/B-yJgG_hDow/?igshid=9115t519ok32

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Length: 38 mins. Date: 17 Jan 2019

[bigtickhk]

Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the “Powerless” Woman Who Took On Washington by Patricia Miller https://amzn.to/2Vm1oia

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Mai MMXXI

Films

La Classe américaine (1993) de Michel Hazanavicius et Dominique Mézerette avec John Wayne, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford et Paul Newman

Assassinats en tous genres (The Assassination Bureau) (1969) de Basil Dearden avec Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Curd Jürgens, Philippe Noiret et Katherine Kath

Le Secret (1974) de Robert Enrico avec Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marlène Jobert, Philippe Noiret et Jean-François Adam

La Métamorphose des cloportes (1965) de Pierre Granier-Deferre avec Lino Ventura, Charles Aznavour, Pierre Brasseur et Irina Demick

Le Grand Frisson (High Anxiety) (1977) de Mel Brooks avec Mel Brooks, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman et Madeline Kahn

Ant-Man et la Guêpe (Ant-Man and the Wasp) (2018) de Peyton Reed avec Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer et Laurence Fishburne

Bonnie et Clyde (Bonnie and Clyde) (1967) de Arthur Penn avec Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Estelle Parsons et Gene Hackman

Le Clan des Siciliens (1969) de Henri Verneuil avec Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Irina Demick et Yves Lefebvre

Meurtres à Toulouse (2020) de Sylvie Ayme avec Lionnel astier, Camille Aguilar, Annelise Hesme, Marc Citti et Yvan Le Bolloc’h

Papillon (1973) de Franklin J. Schaffner avec Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Ratna Assan et Don Gordon

Spectacles

Le charlatan (1979) de Robert Lamoureux avec Pierre Tornade, Robert Lamoureux, Jean Malambert, Annie Gaillard, Magali de Vendeuil, Erik Colin et Robert Dadies

La Parisienne (1974) de Henry Becque avec Micheline Boudet, Dominique Paturel, Christian Alers, Bernard Alane et Claudine Colas

Face à face (1998) de Francis Joffo avec Michel Roux, Popeck, Yolande Folliot, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Marie-Bénédicte Roy, Sébastien Azzopardi, Francis Joffo et Julie Judd

Colères (2012) de Joël Dragutin et François Rollin avec François Rollin

Le Professeur Rollin se re-rebiffe (2017) de Vincent Dedienne, Joël Dragutin et François Rollin avec François Rollin

C'est encore mieux l'après midi (1989) de Ray Cooney avec Pierre Mondy, Jacques Villeret, Virgine Pradal, Jacqueline Jefford, Marie Lenoir

Trop c'est trop (2006) de Georges Beller et Yvan Varco avec Axelle Abbadie, Georges Beller, Michel Derville, Michèle Kern, Antonia Malinova et Stéphane Russel

La surprise (1999) de Pierre Sauvil avec Axelle Abbadie, Darry Cowl, Gérard Hernandez et Mama Prassinos

7 ans de réflexion (2019) de George Axelrod avec Guillaume de Tonquédec, Alice Dufour, Jacques Fontanel, Agathe Dronne, François Bureloup et Clément Koch

Séries

Kaamelott Livre IV, V

La Blessure d’Yvain - Corpore sano II - L’Enchanteur - Les Bien Nommés - Drakkars ! - L’Approbation - La Prisonnière - Les Paris III - Alone in the Dark II - Les Plaques de dissimulation - Le Vice de forme - L’Inspiration - Le Renoncement 1re partie - Le Renoncement 2e partie - L’Entente cordiale - Les Endettés - Double Dragon - Le Sauvetage - Le désordre et la Nuit - Les Repentants - Miserere nobis - Le Dernier Recours - Les Nouveaux Clans - La Sorcière - L’Épée des rois - L’Odyssée d’Arthur - Domi nostræ

Friends Saison 6

Celui qui ne pouvait pas pleurer - Ce qui aurait pu se passer : 1re partie - Ce qui aurait pu se passer : 2e partie - Celui qui avait l'Unagi - Celui qui sortait avec une étudiante - Celui qui avait des problèmes de frigo - Celui qui avait une audition - Celui qui rencontrait le père - Celui qui se la jouait grave - Celui qui achetait la bague - Celui qui faisait sa demande : 1re partie - Celui qui faisait sa demande : 2e partie

Le Coffre à Catch

#24 : Bobby Lashley Arrive !! -  #25 : Les Hardy Boyz Enfin Réunis ! - #26 : Préparation du Elimination Chamber...ou pas! -  Hors-série : ECW December to Dismember 

Columbo Saison 1, 5, 3, 6

Faux témoin - Question d’honneur - Subconscient - Meurtre à l’ancienne

Meurtres au paradis Saison 10

Pacte avec le diable : Première Partie - Pacte avec le diable : Deuxième Partie - Partie de pêche - Amnésie

La Cloche

#53: Le Punjabi Prison Match, une Idée de Génie! - #54: De Retour à New York Pour SummerSlam 2017! - #55: Cyprien Me Prend Pour Un BEAUF! 

Top Gear Saison 15, 12, 17

Les rois du camping - Spécial Bolivie - Construire l'impossible - Essais sur la Cote d'Azur

Nestor Burma Saison 3, 4

Nestor Burma et le Monstre - Nestor Burma dans l'île

Livres

Nota Bene : Les Pires Batailles de l’histoire de Benjamin Brillaud

Astérix Tome 36 : Le papyrus de César de Jean-Yves Ferri et Didier Conrad

Les XII Travaux d'Astérix de René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo

Superman Poche #65

Supergirl #1 La dernière fille de Krypton de Michael Green, Mike Johnson et Mahmud A. Asrar

[effieworldwide]

Effie Kicks Off First Effectiveness Bootcamp of 2020 in NYC

March 26, 2020

The first Effie Effectiveness Bootcamp of 2020 kicked off on February 10-13 in NYC with 26 marketers in attendance, representing a diverse group of companies including Unilever, Accenture, TBWA, NBCUniversal, VMLY&R, S’well and Coca-Cola.

This two-part program equips future marketing leaders with the tools to achieve effective marketing initiatives.

Attendees were trained in Effie’s framework for marketing effectiveness: Challenge, Context, and Objectives; Insights & Strategic Idea; Bringing the Idea to Life; and Results, which are used globally across all Effie programs. They applied their learnings to small group exercises, analyses of past Effie-winning cases, and a case study assignment for SC Johnson’s Kiwi shoe care brand, while talks from industry executives further illustrated the importance of a marketing approach rooted in effectiveness.

Effectiveness Bootcamp: Day by Day

MONDAY: Challenge, Context & Objectives: The Changing World of Effectiveness

Participants began the week by taking a big-picture look at the marketing industry and their role within it. Vineet Mehra, Global Chief Marketing Officer of Walgreens Boots Alliance and Chair of Effie Worldwide’s Board of Directors, shared insight on the modern CMO’s responsibilities, concerns, skillsets, and how marketers can set themselves up for success in the rapidly changing industry. Eddie Revis, VP Brand Marketing at Chobani, also shared his philosophy for creating and defining truly great work (“Great marketing is the work you hear about from your mom,” among other candid perspectives).

Vineet Mehra (left) and Eddie Revis (right) speak to NYC Bootcamp attendees.

Participants were also briefed on their group project for SC Johnson’s KIWI sneaker care line, which they worked on throughout the week.

Bootcamp participants work in teams to develop a marketing effort for SC Johnson’s KIWI shoe care products.

TUESDAY: Data, Objectives, Insights & Strategic Idea

Tuesday’s session equipped attendees with the knowledge to translate data into the right context, objectives, and insights to reach business goals.

Tom Gibson, Group Strategy Director at Anomaly, offered participants tools for reframing data to arrive at strong objectives, and explained his “beyond comms” approach to finding marketing solutions that deliver results. Eugene Roytburg, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Fractal Analytics, spoke about his experience using analytics to predict marketing innovations, and the importance of an organized data management program.

Bootcamp attendees participate in a mock Effie Awards judging exercise.

WEDNESDAY: Effective Strategies and Bringing the Idea to Life

Participants then learned about creative ideation with objectives and insights in mind. Heidi Arthur, Chief Campaign Development Officer at Ad Council discussed the development of the lifesaving and Effie-winning #SeizeTheAwkward suicide prevention campaign. Madonna Badger, CCO & Founder of Badger & Winters and architect of #NoKidsInCages, then gave an inspiring talk on making a difference through purposeful marketing, before joining Arthur for a panel discussion.

Ad Council’s Heidi Arthur and Badger & Winters’ Madonna Badger speak about the impact of purposeful marketing at the 2020 NYC Bootcamp.

To close out the day, Huw Griffiths, Global Chief Product Officer at UM, presented tips for designing a thoughtful data measurement strategy. Participants also spoke with a consumer panel about their ideas for the KIWI case study project.

To help teams solidify their KIWI case study projects, a consumer panel discusses their experiences as sneaker buyers.

THURSDAY: Results and Taking Your Effectiveness Forward

The in-person portion of the Bootcamp concluded on Thursday with teams pitching their Kiwi campaigns to two members of the SC Johnson brand team: Marvin Salazar, Global Brand Manager and Theresa Farrell, Consumer Insights Manager. One team was recognized for most effectively applying Effie’s framework for marketing effectiveness:

Kate Fallon, Strategist at TBWA, Adriana Mariella, Brand Strategist at Johannes Leonardo, Madeline Meade, Senior Creative Strategist at CodeCreative, Lauren Royce, Associate Strategist at Commonwealth//McCann, Mark Pollard, Senior Brand Manager at SC Johnson, & Maria Gutierrez, Brand Manager at Heineken. Pictured with Marvin Salazar, Global Brand Manager and Theresa Farrell, Consumer Insights Manager, of SC Johnson.

To close out the week, Young Lee, EVP Global Strategy Director at Publicis offered an uplifting perspective on managing and diagnosing failure in marketing for long-term success.

Young Lee shares inspiration for bouncing back and learning from failure.

WHAT’S NEXT

Over the coming weeks, Bootcamp participants will complete an independent project addressing a business challenge for their company. Throughout the process, each professional will receive one-on-one mentorship from a marketing executive from a variety of global brands, agencies and media. Their projects will be judged by a panel of Assessors, seasoned industry executives who are versed in Effie’s framework for marketing effectiveness. Scores and Assessor feedback will be shared with the Effie Academy Faculty, and participants receiving a passing grade will earn an Effie Marketing Effectiveness Certificate.

To learn more about the Effie Effectiveness Bootcamp and to register for an upcoming session in Beijing (June 9-12) or San Francisco (September 14-17), click here >

[janetoconnerfl]

Books of The Times: Revelations and Reckonings in a Sex Scandal From Long Before #MeToo

In “Bringing Down the Colonel,” Patricia Miller unearths the 19th-century case of Madeline Pollard, who sued a five-term House representative for breach of promise to marry. from Latest Information https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/books/review-bringing-down-colonel-sex-scandal-patricia-miller.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

[coreyfspear89]

Books of The Times: Revelations and Reckonings in a Sex Scandal From Long Before #MeToo

In “Bringing Down the Colonel,” Patricia Miller unearths the 19th-century case of Madeline Pollard, who sued a five-term House representative for breach of promise to marry. from Latest News https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/books/review-bringing-down-colonel-sex-scandal-patricia-miller.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Books of The Times: Revelations and Reckonings in a Sex Scandal From Long Before #MeToo

In “Bringing Down the Colonel,” Patricia Miller unearths the 19th-century case of Madeline Pollard, who sued a five-term House representative for breach of promise to marry. from Latest Information https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/books/review-bringing-down-colonel-sex-scandal-patricia-miller.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

[mildrednsims]

Books of The Times: Revelations and Reckonings in a Sex Scandal From Long Before #MeToo

In “Bringing Down the Colonel,” Patricia Miller unearths the 19th-century case of Madeline Pollard, who sued a five-term House representative for breach of promise to marry. from Latest News https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/books/review-bringing-down-colonel-sex-scandal-patricia-miller.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

[soulvoyager2]

In “Bringing Down the Colonel,” Patricia Miller unearths the 19th-century case of Madeline Pollard, who sued a five-term House representative for breach of promise to marry.

[timothyabernard]

Revelations and Reckonings in a Sex Scandal From Long Before #MeToo

In “Bringing Down the Colonel,” Patricia Miller unearths the 19th-century case of Madeline Pollard, who sued a five-term House representative for breach of promise to marry. Article source here:New York Times Arts Section

[themoneybhai]

In a twist unique for its time, Madeline Pollard openly admitted her sexual transgression and cleverly took control of the narrative https://t.co/q4SPO28rS4

In a twist unique for its time, Madeline Pollard openly admitted her sexual transgression and cleverly took control of the narrative https://t.co/q4SPO28rS4

— Ashish Bhalla (@AshishBhalla_) November 3, 2018

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[newsexplored]

Madeleine McCann could have been kidnapped by slave traders for rich family, says ex-cop

New Post has been published on https://newsexplored.co.uk/madeleine-mccann-could-have-been-kidnapped-by-slave-traders-for-rich-family-says-ex-cop/

Madeleine McCann could have been kidnapped by slave traders for rich family, says ex-cop

GETTY

Madeleine McCann may have been snatched by slave traders, an ex-policeman has claimed

A former Scotland Yard detective says police need to look at the possibility that a gang in Mauritania, West Africa abducted Madeleine McCann to order.

Slave traders operating in Mauritania regularly sell young children to rich Middle Eastern families.

Ex-Scotland Yard detective Colin Sutton told The Mirror: “The Mauritania line is certainly a possibility and needs to be looked at.

“If someone wanted to get a three-year-old child into Africa it’s the obvious route.

The Mauritania line is certainly a possibility and needs to be looked at. If someone wanted to get a three-year-old child into Africa it’s the obvious route

Ex-Scotland Yard detective Colin Sutton

“The infrastructure and contacts for people smuggling are clearly there.”

It is not known if police investigating Madeleine’s disappearance have looked at links to the West African nation.

Private detectives hired by Madeleine’s parents Kate and Gerry reportedly believe there are “strong reasons” to think the youngster was smuggled to Morocco.

Mr Sutton’s comments come as a couple say they saw a girl “identical” to Madeleine in Morocco asking the man with her ‘can we see mummy soon?’ just six days after she went missing.

Then three-years-old, Madeleine went missing in May 2007 while on holiday with her family in Praia da Luz, Portugal.

The proximity of Praia da Luz to port towns with links to Africa and reported sightings of Madeleine in Tangier and Marrakech have boosted the line of enquiry.

Kidnappers could have driven Madeleine four hours to the Spanish port town of Tarifa where ferries cross to Tangier meaning the youngster could have been in Africa within five hours of going missing after police failed to secure the Spanish border immediately after her disappearance.

On May 9, 2007, a tourist says she saw a girl “identical” to Madeleine with a man at a petrol station in Marrakech.

GETTY

There have been reported sightings of Madeleine in Tangier

GETTY

Oen woman says she saw a child "identical" to Madeleine in Marrakech days after she went missing

Mari Olli, who was on holiday with her husband Ray Pollard, saw the child on Avenue Abdel Krim Khattabi – a direct road from the port and major route into the city.

The couple had not heard of Madeleine when they saw the child, but say they now believe the youngster dressed in blue pyjamas was her.

In a letter to police, Miss Olli said: “I saw the girl inside the shop. She was wearing clear blue pyjamas.

“Some pattern on the top, trousers little darker. Don’t think the trousers had any pattern. She was very small. Under one metre. She was with a man. She was standing alone, the man about a metre from her.

AFP

Investigators hired by Gerry and Kate McCann think Madeleine may have been taken to Morocco Madeleine McCann: The search continues Fri, February 24, 2017

These are the various computer generated images of how Maddie might look now

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Madeline McCann went missing from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, in Portugal’s Algarve 9 years ago.

“I looked back at her, she was very sweet. It was a strange situation because the man didn’t look like her father.

“And it was very strange to see a blonde small girl standing alone in Marrakesh.

“She was very small and normally you would hold her in your arms or at least her hand. And he was turning away from her. She looked sad. I looked at her face, she looked at me. Then she turned to the man and said something that sounds like: ‘Can we see Mummy soon?’”

An unnamed British man says he saw a girl he believed was Madeleine outside a hotel in Marrakech on the same day as Miss Olli claims to have seen the youngster.

As the tenth anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance approaches a former police chief claims the little girl was killed and her death covered up by MI5.

He made the claims in a new documentary on Australian television.

[tindogpodcast]

TDP 660: CHARLOTTE POLLARD SERIES 02 from @BigFinish

This title was released in March 2017. It will be exclusively available to buy from the BF website until April 30th 2017, and on general sale after this date.

Charlotte Pollard. Space-time traveller. Former emissary of the mysterious and terrifying Viyrans. Now she’s cast adrift and finds herself and unlikely adventurer Robert Buchan brought right down to Earth — but an Earth which is changing rapidly. Why and how have they crash-landed in the London Underground? Who are the Identical Men? And why is human behaviour starting to change in startling and unexpected ways? Charley, Robert and their friend the Rogue Viyran must find out if they are the solution or the cause. Deep underground, something is stirring. Fragments of an alien design are coalescing…

Part 1: Embankment Station - A bumpy arrival, journalism, politics and a security crisis.

Part 2: Ruffling - Hiding in a bank, on the run, trapped underground.

Part 3: Seed of Chaos - Tube train trouble, the chaos begins, the Prime Minister arrives.

Part 4: The Destructive Quality of Life - Marooned on an alien world, a 'concentration camp' in Slough, messaging through space and time.

This release also includes a bonus hour of content featuring interviews with cast and crew.

Written By: Nicholas Briggs Directed By: Nicholas Briggs

Cast

India Fisher (Charlotte Pollard), James Joyce (Robert Buchan), Dan Starkey (Rogue Viyran), Deirdre Mullins (Naomi Davies), Kieran Hodgson (Woking), Ashley Kumar (Rab), Rachel Atkins (Minister), Helen Goldwyn (Lysette Allegro), Pippa Haywood (Prime Minister), Colin McFarlane (The Identical Men), Karen Henson (Madeline), Gary Turner (Captain Warwick), Ben Crowe (Sergeant Hunter), Glen McCready (David Shillingford/Gelrasian/Guard/Proto-Viyran/Donald Predko/Soldiers).  Other parts played by members of the cast.

Producer and Script Editor Scott Handcock

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