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In 1900 Margaret and Winnie had lodged at 400 Chestnut
Street in Chicago. Sometime between 1900 and 1903,
Margaret moved to Raton, New Mexico, and Winnie moved
to the Auditorium Hotel. The Stewart A. Apgar
(1867–1948) family lived in Raton, and Margaret may
have been Stewart's sister; his second daughter was
named Margaret, possibly after her aunt.
Margaret took a job as a stenographer for the First
National Bank in Raton in April 1903.
The 1893 World's Fair had produced an explosion of new hotels in Chicago, most
offering a bath in every room.
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The
Auditorium, designed with the older custom of shared
bathrooms, could not compete and was forced to
appeal to extended-stay boarders.
Rosa Moody, a Louisiana native, boarded on Superior
Street in 1900. In April 1911, she married Alexander
Robertson, a banker. Her father was the late Col.
(or Cpt.) William M. Moody of Terrebonne parish and
the town of Tigerville Gibson in Louisiana, possibly
connected with the Live Oak sugar cane plantation. She and Alexander
lived in Louisiana for
a time, then moved to California, where she died in 1953.
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Discrepancies and addendum
* One newspaper reported that Wilma managed the cigar
stand at the Auditorium Theater, and another that
she was the "librarian" at the Auditorium hotel.
Both statements could have been accurate. One newspaper reported Rosa's name as Risa and one
that Margaret's name was Margarite.
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