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MAQUOKETA, IOWA NEWSPAPER
Tuesday, October 28, 1919
Make a Choice of an Orphan
Twelve Bright Faced Children Craving a Mother and
Father's Love, to be here Friday
Five hundred circular letters have been sent out
during the past few days to citizens of this community announcing that a
number of orphans from New York will be at the Congregational church
next Friday afternoon from which place they will be distributed to homes
which have made application for them. A public reception will be held at
the church at two o'clock and everybody is invited to be present. If you
have not made application for a child yet, be certain to be present at
that time and do so.
A letter from Mrs. C. B. Comstock of Des Moines who will accompany the
children states that these children come from the best orphanages in and
around New York and have been diligently trained and selected with care
to fit the new family life into which they are to enter. If a mistake
has been made in the choice or for any reason the child is not
satisfactory, the society bears the trouble and expense of its return.
In all there will be twelve children ranging in age from ten months to
thirteen years. Their names as furnished by Miss Comstock are as
follows:
| Helen Martin |
8 years |
| Frank Hunt |
3 years |
| David Monson |
12 years |
| Dorothy Ritchie |
10 months |
| Ethel Monson |
11 years |
| Edward Alkler |
10 years |
| Wellington Zanginger |
2 years |
| John Carlson |
11 years |
| William Nelson |
8 years |
Emil Zelsing
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13 years |
| Milton Cook |
4 years |
| James McConnell |
11 years |
If you apply for a child, you should be prepared
to satisfy the Society that you will furnish the comforts of a home,
that you will treat the little one as a real member of your family by
taking the place of father and mother to him as nearly as possible, that
you will give him the education and moral training that will fit him to
take a respectable, self supporting place in the community.
The local committee appointed some time ago by Miss Comstock is as
follows: A. L. Cook, Dr. F. V. Johnson, Judge A. J. House, L. T.
Martensen, Dr. J. G. Morgan, A. C. McKinsey, and G. H. McClellan. These
gentlemen are requested to be present at this time and it is necessary
to have the committee's endorsement when taking one of these children.
Remember that everyone is welcome to call at the church at the above
mentioned time, see the little ones, and if you want to do some real
good in the world, make application for one of them.
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