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Newspaper
Mt Vernon Register News
Location
Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1950
Page
8
Two boys found a decomposed body of a man aged 50 to 60 in Vandalia woods eight miles east of Vandalia Illinois. A Social Security card in the billfold bore the name Lawrence Leroy Jacobs from Jacksonville Florida. An inquest was scheduled for today. The discovery occurred as the youths hunted props for a school play.
The 1950 Vernon yearbook for Mt Vernon Township High School has been distributed to students setting a new advertising record. It honors the Mt Vernon Rams state champions under Coach Stanley Changnon, with staff credits including editor Marjorie Cullins and business manager Jean Mitchell.
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