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Breakfast with Mom

We are a mother daughter podcast that like to share all the things we find interesting with True Crime and History with a focus on women and how they have impacted our world, whether for good or for bad.

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August 8, 2025 63 mins

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Hello and welcome to Breakfast with Mom!  Today we talk about the complicated life of Harry Allan.  People can sometimes be compared to an onion and how we have many layers.  With Harry there were definitely layers.  


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https://www.cascadepbs.org/culture/2019/03/nell-pickerell-transgender-youth-knute-berger/

https://www.kuow.org/stories/nell-pickerell-trans-man-seattles-rough-and-tumble-days

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West Dallas is an area consisting of many communities and neighborhoods in Dallas, Texas, United States. West Dallas lies just west of Downtown Dallas, north of Oak Cliff, and east of Irving and Grand Prairie.

Largely lying in the Trinity River floodplain, the area's history has been largely defined by its relationship to the river, to industry, and to downtown. Although...

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Today’s episode is something I have wanted to cover for a while and with this being the 32nd anniversary of the death of Mia Zapata and thought this would be the best time to dive into her life, death and legacy.

Mia Katherine Zapata was an American musician who was the lead vocalist for the punk rock band The Gits. After gaining praise in the emerging grunge scene, Zapata w...

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Hello and welcome back to Breakfast with Mom!  Today I want to tell you about Florence Clementine Thornton Butt, she was an American businesswoman best known as the founder of what would become the H-E-B Grocery Company, one of the largest privately owned supermarket chains in the United States.

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43093117/florence_clementine-butt

https://www.northchannelstar.com/2023/03/flore...

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This one will be a short but sweet episode.

Sadie "The Goat" Farrell is a legendary figure in New York City's 19th-century criminal folklore, renowned for her audacity, cunning, and fierce independence. Her story, though steeped in myth, offers a glimpse into the gritty underworld of the era.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_Farrell

https://www.hist...

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Today I have three more Hall of Fame inductees I want to tell you about.  All my resources can be found in the show notes.

The lasting legacies of Arleene Johnson Noga, June Peppa and Sophia Kurys for women in sports continue to inspire. Their dedication to excellence, leadership, and community involvement has left an undeniable mark on the history of women's athletics i...

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April 18, 2025 59 mins

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Today we are continuing our girls of baseball series.  This is the story of the OG girl ball player Lizzie Murphy, a trailblazing figure in American baseball history.


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Murphy

https://www.milb.com/news/lizzie-murphy

https://riheritagehalloffame.com/elizabeth-murphy/

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Lizzie_Murphy

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April 4, 2025 41 mins

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With the start of baseball season I thought it fitting that we would do our next series on the organization that came to be known as The Women’s American Baseball League or All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.  In today’s episode I will tell you about the birth and demise of the league, then I will break our next episodes down into a few stories on individual pla...

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Today we have a returning quest at our table.  With us we have the Teen Daughter!  In today’s episode the Teen will share with us a project she just presented in her AP Seminar class.  For those that would like further reading of the sources cited here please let me know by sending us an email or by leaving us a message on any of our social media accounts.


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Today I want to tell you about Constance Kent and the murder of her almost 4 year old half brother Francis Saville Kent.  Trigger warning, today’s story will tell about child murder, please take heed when listening.  

Constance Kent was an English woman whose name became widely known due to her involvement in one of the most notorious criminal cases of the 19th century, ofte...

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Today I want to tell you about Mildred Burke, a woman wrestler whose wrestling career spanned two decades.  My resources can be found in the show notes.

Mildred Burke was an American professional wrestler who made significant contributions to the development of women's wrestling in the mid-20th century. She is considered one of the most important and pioneering figures ...

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Today I want to tell you about Mary Lillian Ellison, known as The Fabulous Moolah.  

Mary Lillian Ellison  was an iconic professional wrestler whose career spanned more than five decades, making her one of the most influential and groundbreaking figures in the history of women's wrestling.  You can find my resources in the show notes.

Mary was born on July 22, 1933, in K...

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January 24, 2025 32 mins

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Today I want to introduce everyone to Ethel Blanche Hairston AKA Ethel Johnson.   

Ms. Ethel was an American professional wrestler whose ring name was Ethel Johnson.  She debuted at age 16, becoming the first African-American women's champion.  She was a fan favorite, billed as "the biggest attraction to hit girl wrestling since girl wrestling began."...

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Hello and welcome back to Breakfast with Mom!  Happy New Year everyone.  This is the first episode for our 2025 season!

Today I want to introduce Emma Bentzen Koehler.  Emma Bentzen Koehler, was an entrepreneur and president of the San Antonio Brewing Association, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 25, 1858 to her parents, Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Bentzen and Helene Henriette Sophie (Garrels) Bentzen.  Her pa...

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This is the last episode for 2024!!  With us today we have returning guests the “Adult Daughter” and the “Teen Daughter”.  Today we thought we would play another round of Am I the A-Hole.  We had some much fun the last time so we’re doing it again.

Thank you for joining us for this special episode.  May your breakfast be hot and your coffee strong!


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Today we have a special quest at our table.  With us we have the Teen Daughter!  In today’s episode the Teen will share with us a project she just presented in her AP Seminar class.


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Music: "Electronic Rock (King Around Here)" by Alex Grohl https://pixabay.com/music/search/electronic%20rock%20king

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Hello and welcome back to Breakfast with Mom!  This is our 4th and final episode for our Pink Ladies series.  Today I want to tell you about a lesser known Lady Pink named Elizabeth H Baker.  It is not known when Elizabeth H. Baker was born the exact date and location of her birth remain uncertain. She was raised in a period when women’s roles were often confined to the domestic sphere, but she defied these limitation...

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This is part 3 of our Pink Ladies series.  Mary Louvestre was an African-American Union spy in Norfolk, Virginia, during the United States Civil War. She delivered details of plans for the conversion of the wrecked USS Merrimack to an ironclad that would be named the CSS Virginia and which represented a great advance in Confederate naval capabilities.  While she...

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