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llowan PurchasesLawsonomy U„Asks Clear TitleTrDES MOINES (UP)—An wtor* iei ,ney tor the mysterious University di(3l!seiC('of Lawsoeomy Thursday filed * i; petition in Polk couniy district •{court asking that • Pes Moinet jjbusiuess man be given clear titie|a ,'jto the university. |w21 Any. Howard Hill »»id theiwl s! school was sold to F. A. De Puydt. m 41 president of the Dico Company, last Aug. 12 and that an undis-closed purchase price “was paid to the sehooL* JtiThe petition asks that Mr. and 31 Mrs. Albert C. Nichols and Mr. and Mrs. Homer R. Adcock be Up f required to submit quit claim as deeds surrendering any claim k they have to 1he property. 1!On Aug. IS Nichols, a contrac-l tor. and Adcock, a real estate tl man, filed letters with district n court stating they had held an op- 1; lion to buy Lawsonomy since last|t: April and had deposited $1*000. toward the purchase.The petition Thursday denied Nichols and Adcock had an option to buy the property of the school, founded here In 1943 by 84-year-old Alfred W. Lawson of Detroit. 1is
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Cedar Rapids Citizen
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Fri, Sep 10, 1954
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