OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Scholars at a Utah university are trying to unlock a mystery after discovering a nearly 70-year-old transcript of an interview with a notorious brothel owner that is written in a shorthand style that few people can read today. The Standard-Examiner reports the notes are from an interview with madam Rossette Davie. She ran the Rose Rooms brothel with her husband in the 1940s and 1950s. The pages could be a treasure trove of material for local historians. But the 1951 transcription is written in a decades-old shorthand style that few people use today. Weber State University historians are asking for help from anyone who might be able to read the dictation.












