Men were always a disappointment to suffragist Anna Howard Shaw, and a local bureaucrat fit the pattern. See ‘Anna and the tax man’.

“Anna and the tax man” is the latest edition of Retrospect, a regular look at the history of Philadelphia's western suburbs. Retrospect appears monthly in Main Line Today magazine.

Coming next month: "Barringer’s Big Bang." Wayne mining engineer Daniel Barringer got rich on silver, then lost all in an Arizona crater.


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Coming in November: The Hidden History of Delaware County