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“Beware of Mamie Taylor,” ran the headline of the New York Press in June of 1900; “It’s as effective as a thirteen-inch gun at close range,” added the Louisville Courier Journal later that summer. 

And who was this Mamie Taylor of whom the public needed to be warned? A confidence woman? A killer on the loose? No, she was merely a singer (a soprano at that, the least threatening of all opera registers to anyone but a crystal glass) and the item of danger being warned…