Mrs.
Ordinarily, the overflowing wa.
Pittman\'s place are cheap because of the annual floods from the Allegheny River, which inundate the building\'s basement and first floor.
Rooms at Mrs.
Years later, she has returned to her native city as a widow and now runs a boarding house, one of the only jobs available to respectable women in the early twentieth century.
Pittman\'s well-to-do Pittsburgh family didn\'t approve of her marriage, so the young bride moved away and lost touch with her relatives.
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