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Joyce’s Pumpkin Snickerdoodles

Cookie Recipes - Pumpkin Snickerdoodles

My daughter, Joyce,  created the recipe for these Pumpkin Snickerdoodles.  They are everything you want in a cookie, crispy, spice and pumpkiny!  The perfect cookie to welcome fall!

Ingredients
15 ounces Pumpkin Puree
1/2 Cup Butter, softened
1 1/2 Cups Sugar
1/2 Cup Shortening
2 Whole Eggs
2 3/4 Cups Flour
2 Teaspoons Cream of Tartar
1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1/4 Teaspoon Salt
1/4 Cup Sugar
2 Teaspoons Cinnamon

Directions
Preheat oven to 400.
Mix Butter, Shortening and Eggs in large bowl
Stir in flour, cream of Tartar, Baking Soda and Salt
Mix in Pumpkin Puree
Mix together 1/4 C Sugar and 2 Teaspoons Cinnamon
Roll cookie dough into 1 1/4 inch balls
Roll balls thouroughly in Cinnamon Sugar mixture
Place balls 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheet Bake 10 – 12 minutes until set.
Remove from baking sheet and let cool.

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Beulah Annan – The Real Roxie Hart

Beulah Annan

A secret love affair, several husbands and named the most beautiful slayer on Murderess Row.  Beulah Annan was the inspiration for the iconic Roxie Hart!

Living on a farm just outside of Owensboro, KY and going to high school, at 15 Beulah married Perry Stevens a lithograph operator.  They had a son, but Beulah was bored being a housewife and mother.  She was young and beautiful and had what Perry called, “too many friends”.  She was speeding in a car with a young man when they hit a telephone pole.  Perry divorced Beulah and took custody of their infant son.  Beulah took off for Louisville.

Beulah and Albert Annan

In Louisville she met Albert Annan, a garage mechanic, 10 years older than she.  Albert’s family was a little notorious in Owensboro and Louisville, his brother Alfred was a bandit and a member of the Irvin Anderson gang.  Alfred was killed in a restaurant hold up in Cincinnati.  The Irvin Anderson gang was a bunch of boys no older than 20 that started stealing cars then advanced to highway robbery and even killed a policeman.  Beulah was not thrilled with the idea of being associated with the fall-out from the Anderson gang, so she agreed to marry Albert if they moved to Chicago.

They moved to Chicago and Albert found a job in a garage making $60 a week, which would be about $1,600 today.  He was working 10-14 hours a day to pay for the furniture that Beulah had bought to furnish their apartment.  Beulah was bored again.  She convinced Al to let her get a part time job as a cashier in laundry.  There she met Harry Kolstedt.

Harry Kalstedt

Harry was an ex-con having been incarcerated for a “statutory crime” which we would call rape today.  Harry was a laundry wagon driver and went to see the bookkeeper to pay his own bill and met Beulah.  The started an affair.

  On Thursday, April 3, 1924, Harry calls Beulah right after Al leaves for work and says he is coming over.  He comes over and they drink for a while.  Beulah gives Harry $6, and he leaves to get more gin.  They drink some more, and Beulah starts taunting him about being a jailbird and he tells her that he is going to leave and end the affair.  Beulah grabs the gun out of Al’s underwear draw and shoots Harry in the back. 

Hula Lou Cover

I’ve got the cutest eyes
Never mind what shade they are.
But (lookin’ at them the boys*) will never get very far.
‘Cause I’m Hula Lou
I’m the gal that can’t be true
I do my nestin’ in the evenin’ breeze
‘Neath the trees
I got more sweeties than a dog has fleas.
— Hula Lou written by Jack Yellen, Milton Charles, and Wayne King

Beulah panics and turns on the phonograph and plays Hula Lou over and over for 2 hours.  At 10 minutes to 5:00 she calls Al and tells him that she has killed a man that was trying to make love to her. Al hurries home and calls the police.  When the police arrive, Al says that he killed Harry as he was attacking Beulah.  The police don’t buy this and ask the drunken Beulah what happened. 

At first, she confesses that she barely knew Harry and that he came to the apartment and “tried to make love” to her.  She refused and when he kept coming, she grabbed the gun and shot him.  The police wanted to know why he was shot in the back and take her to jail.  At midnight when she has sobered up some, they take her back to the apartment to interrogate her. 

“You are right I haven’t been telling the truth.  I’d been fooling around with Harry for two months.  This morning as soon as my husband left for work, Harry called me up.  I told him I wouldn’t be home, but he came over anyway. 

“We sat in the flat for quite a time, drinking.  Then I said in a joking way that I was going to quit him.  He said he was through with me and began to put on his coat.  When I saw that he meant what he said, my mind was in a whirl and I shot him.  Then I started playing the record, I was nervous you see. “

And off she goes to Murderess Row.  Next time how the press influences the outcome of the trial.