who was solomon silver?

[lynn cates]

right

Hello Michael.

"Did you ROE all the way from Canada for that one?"

Egg-zactly!

Cheers.
LC

[The Grave Maurice]

The whole thread smells fishy to me.

[The Good Michael]

"Did you ROE all the way from Canada for that one?"

Egg-zactly!

I'm glad that spawned a response from you.

Mike

[mattwill]

WATER you guys talking about? This thread has more fish puns than a song by Kip Adotta (look it up-actually, just STREAM it).

[jason_c]

Jewish pimps?

I havent read all this thread but there were the likes of Joseph Silver.

http://www.amazon.com/Fox-Flies-Joseph-Racketeer-Psychopath/dp/0224079298

[mariab]

To Observer:
According to John Bennett and Rob Clack, it appears that Nos. 18 and 34 on Fashion Street used to be lodging houses, but both had been closed down long before 1888 - otherwise there seem to have been no doss houses on Fashion Street in 1888.
Can it be that Stride was working on Fashion Street while residing with Michael Kidney on Devonshire Street (as documented), which was just around the corner from Fashion Street? It looks to me like the simplest explanation.
What on earth is a “charwoman“? A cleaning lady? (Etymologically having its provenance from “chores“?)
Here the link to the Fashion Street enigma thread, where some of these issues were been discussed a couple months ago:
http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=4009

[lynn cates]

simple

Hello Maria. That seems far and away the simplest explanation. And that is what motivated my search for her employer/s there.

Here's a question. Did Liz:

1. Work for a person?

or

2. Work for several persons?

Cheers.
LC

[Abby Normal]

To Observer:
According to John Bennett and Rob Clack, it appears that Nos. 18 and 34 on Fashion Street used to be lodging houses, but both had been closed down long before 1888 - otherwise there seem to have been no doss houses on Fashion Street in 1888.
Can it be that Stride was working on Fashion Street while residing with Michael Kidney on Devonshire Street (as documented), which was just around the corner from Fashion Street? It looks to me like the simplest explanation.
What on earth is a “charwoman“? A cleaning lady? (Etymologically having its provenance from “chores“?)
Here the link to the Fashion Street enigma thread, where some of these issues were been discussed a couple months ago:
http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=4009

I second this question.
What on earth is a “charwoman“?

[The Good Michael]

I think it's just a cleaning lady, but it wouldn't be one who lived on the premises.

Mike

[Abby Normal]

I think it's just a cleaning lady, but it wouldn't be one who lived on the premises.

Mike

Thanks GM

[mariab]

The Good Michael wrote:
I think it's just a cleaning lady, but it wouldn't be one who lived on the premises.
Maybe I need a “charwoman“ in Berlin then. (Just kidding, I'm not gonna pay for this!)

Lynn Cates wrote:
Here's a question. Did Liz:
1. Work for a person?
or
2. Work for several persons?
Due to the fact that Stride didn't say anything about working for someone specific on Fashion Street, I would tend to expect that she worked erratically for several Jews. Good luck in researching this.
Lynn, I'll answer your email and send you the links and info about sweater lists later tonight.

[tji]

Hi all

A charwoman is indeed a cleaning woman, who would come in and clean for pay, apparently (not sure how true) it comes from the word 'chore woman.'

Tj

[Robert]

A charwoman or char would come in and clean. She might clean for two or three people I suppose, depending on how quick she was at cleaning!

A cha-cha woman was a cleaner who danced as she dusted.

[The Good Michael]

Char is also an Arctic fish, but don't tell anyone. The puns would come back.

Mike

[Robert]

There you go, then : Liz Stride was a char who cleaned for Salmon Silver.