Mrs. America
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Everyone wants to be first. The first to achieve something, or discover something new. How that might transform that person's life, though, depends on the details of their story.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to AirNManky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm |
| 0:08.7 | and Mild. |
| 0:13.0 | Our world is full of the unexplainable. |
| 0:16.3 | And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, |
| 0:22.2 | just waiting for us to explore. |
| 0:25.4 | Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's. |
| 0:30.0 | Some people are destined for greatness from the beginning. |
| 0:39.9 | They either spend their lives working toward a specific goal or they are born with the |
| 0:43.9 | privilege they need to ascend. |
| 0:46.2 | Others, like William Shakespeare once said, have greatness thrust upon them. |
| 0:51.4 | Take Susanna, for example. |
| 0:53.1 | She was born in 1860 to a humble family of Ohio farmers, but her parents eventually |
| 0:57.8 | moved the family to Silver Lake, Kansas when she was about 12. |
| 1:02.4 | Susanna was smart, too. |
| 1:04.2 | Very smart. |
| 1:05.2 | She'd taken several college-level classes while still in high school, allowing her to |
| 1:08.8 | skip her freshman year at Kansas State Agricultural College and become a sophomore. |
| 1:14.0 | And it was during her time there when she met the man she would one day marry, Louis |
| 1:17.3 | Salter. |
| 1:18.8 | Louis had come from an important political family in Kansas and was working on getting |
| 1:22.5 | his degree in law. |
| 1:24.1 | Sadly, Susanna had no choice but to drop out of college several weeks before graduation |
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