Millionaire Heiress Tales Lifted From Soda Fountain
Betty Louise Taylor a 19 year old Marion Illinois soda fountain clerk who did not want wealth or college learned she would inherit a £1,000,000 estate left by British Lord and Lady Chumley after the passing of her father. She planned to sign papers in Washington DC then return to Marion to continue her job and life.
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Marion, Ill
Betty Louise Taylor
Washington, D. C
Marion
Miss Taylor
Lord
Chumley
Britain
Betty
Washington
J. P. Smothers
Lorna Barth Taylor
Selvin Taylor
Lady Chumley
St. Loui
Heiress Draws Estate Battle as Heir Seekings Remain
A fragment notes a control dispute over a large estate with mentions of a county seat and Williamson county. The text hints at a wealthy heiress and possible purchase scenario involving a beer product. The readable portion shows legal and local township references without firm dates or names.
The Great Question in Lent Devotional by Dr Atkins
Daily Lenten devotional reflects on Luke 9 18 22 and the question Whom say ye that I am. It emphasizes discipleship obedience over denial and invokes the enduring Christ figure despite dogmas and doubt. The piece frames urgency for industry politics and souls seeking faith.
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Mark
Peter
Our Boarding House Prayer Fragment
A concise devotional prayer passage seeks confession and discipleship. It urges faith in Jesus Christ as the Son of the Living God and asks for genuine repentance and spiritual possession of the soul.
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Christ
God
Canteen Corps To Demonstrate Group Feeding At Meeting
The Red Cross canteen corps will demonstrate group feeding at the April 7 Red Cross board meeting at the YWCA. Mrs Wayne Foster is canteen corps chairwoman. Mrs Paul Huston announces Mrs A W Erskine as acting chair of nurses aides following Mrs Irvin L Huffman’s resignation. Two new training classes for 35 members start April 5 in Cedar Rapids hospitals. Gray Ladies report 405 hours in February and 474 hours by March 25. Home service handled 9 cases in March and begins a study group April 21. Telephone desk volunteers total 96 hours in March.
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Red Cross Canteen Corps
Red Cross Board of Directors
Y.W.C.A
Wayne Foster
Paul H. Huston
Volunteers Serve in Hospitals and Schools
Williams notes new classes at Wilson and Franklin schools with a large female class. Mrs. E Harold Skinner reports 54 staff assistants contributed 261 hours in hospitals. Miss Helen Hubbard says 325 volunteers gave 9,475 hours knitting and 500 volunteers aided elsewhere.
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Wilson and Franklin
E. Harold Skinner
Helen Hubbard
Tion
Sewing volunteers ship record dressings in March
Mrs. L. K. Cornell reports 93,850 dressings made in March and 127,500 shipped during this period as 5,988 hours were devoted to sewing by volunteers.
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L. K. Cornell
Surgical Dressings
No Home Trator County Reform Screened
Fragmentary text indicates a county office in Iowa with references to screened or screened by the period, mentioning district or office in County Iowa with a focus on a reelection or administrative action.
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Lan Coun
Iowa
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McKinley
Kresge
First Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Williamson County
Gaius Glenn Atkins
The
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
Major Heeple
Caesar
Jake
Garl
Amos
MATOR
Williams
Pat. Off
Trwluams
A&p
Alliance Tuna
Longhorn Sunnyfield Fine Creamery
Campbell’s Tomato Soup
Blackberries
Teen
Ampbell
Campbell’s
California
Sunnyfield
Nur
America
Jane Parker
Hot Cross
Ann Page
Sead Balak
Ne IE Geek
Nohometrator
G. P._Buresh
OPS
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Firestone
Walt
Pacu Ens
Rani McNally
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Ren So
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