Tough Tarbell Trivia

[Steve]

Despite my pandemic-induced penny-pinching, I still have one newspaper database subscription which hasn't expired. The earliest mention of Ida Tarbell outside of Pennsylvania which I could find is from page 10 of the 22 June 1880 edition of the Cleveland Leader which mentions "Miss Ida M. Tarbell" giving a talk on Elizabeth Barrett Browning during the start of Commencement Exercises at Allegheny College.