Logic suggests that someone who has served as public guardian, a lawyer appointed to represent minors in court, would be a by-the-book mother to her own children. But logic rarely appears in stories about Mary Belle Spencer and her daughters who regularly wound up in the news early in the last century. Spencer was Cook County’s public guardian from 1918 to 1921, among the first women in that .
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