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POOR HOUSEuilding U Vacant Fsr Firtt Time *r, Sixty Yeara For Any Length of Time, It Is Said.William Schtiwder, sexton of the I £ City Cemetery, has moved hix family jl and effects from the sexton's house T (in the City Cemetery and this is thelj-. tirst time, it is said, by persons | X A claiming to know, that the house has . T 1 be**n vacant any length of time £ • /sixty years or more. It is to be sold, I,j.and the purchaser will move it from ***■ its location, which will be the site -« j of the proposed mausoleum. “d t A gentleman who played around the I► house when he was a boy a half cen I tury ago told a Telegraph reporter j i-1 today that for many years the build-I e ing was used as a poor house, and I y while he thinks It was maintained byir the county it was called tlie City I Poor House, and w as used as such. J i He said a house for ihe really dead” I ] at will take place of the house that once I ( e, sheltered the “living dead, his idea i being that w hen a i*erson had to live I Lin a poor house the living was death I T of a certain kind. I
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Alton Evening Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Thu, Mar 20, 1913
Page 5
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