Investigatress

As many of these are microscopic, a most promising field will, without doubt, open to the investigators and investigatresses who shall enter therein.

La reine mit les pistolets à part avec la lettre, en attendant mieux; c’était un commencement d’indice qui pouvait conduire à la vérité.

An “investigatress” comes to the institution and endeavors to prove the knight errant a thief. […] Maude Raymond as the investigatress does a most laughable imitation of Mrs. Fay, and made a decided appeal to the audience in several “coon songs.”

But the result of my study of the unaccountable beings of my own age is the belief that each of them puts her suitors to some same test. The suitors may never perceive what the test is: the investigatress knows admirably.

Mrs. Earl Fry bought a bushel basket of peaches for $3.60. In the bottom of the basket she found a note from a lady in Texas, saying that the basket had been sold for 50 cents and asking that she be notified of the cost price to the consumer. There is a lady in Texas who is surely an investigatress.

He had seen the advertisement of The Ray, the promised new journal of plain truth, he continued suavely, and if it chanced that she, Miss O’Wynn, was the talented investigatress who was writing the promised article on the alleged Morriston Colony mystery, he begged that she would grant him the favor, the very great favor, of an interview at the earliest possible moment.

Arizona’s new organization of vigilantes, the self-styled Women’s Investigating Committee of 500, has struck a snag early in its corporate efforts to purge state politics by compiling data on the “habits, conduct and acts” of public officials. When the Arizona Federation of Democratic Women’s Clubs publicly denounced the investigatresses, no hair was pulled because no one knew whose hair to pull.

Mrs. Ridinghouse says, “The men have come to their present state in life by way of a gradual descent from better days. They are epicures in wine, experts on women, and adept in song.” “Pay you next week sure,” is the phrase the men used when they could count on friends for loans of $5, explains Mrs. Ridinghouse. “But this state of affairs cannot go on forever,” says the investigatress. “They fall to the level of dimes eventually and at this point there is no promise of repayment made.”