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Letter addressed to the HQB Golden Agers contains a pink and yellow card which reads as follows:

[Typed, pre-written message] You're a wonderful bunch of people. It's almost more than just one card Could hopefully express--But thank you, thank you, thank you all For all your thoughtfulness.

[Handwritten message] From Howard E. Toussaint. Thanks for all you have done for Beck.

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Periodical published in Illinois. Headline for this issue reads as follows:

What's Wrong with "Equal Rights" for Women

Scope and Contents Typed letter from the the State of Minnesota's, Governor's Citizens Council on Aging. An excerpt reads as follows: President Nixon has announced a major campaign called Project FIND. This will be an intensive nation-wide effort to locate and alert persons age 60 and older who are eligible for either the Food Stamp or the Food Distribution Program and who are not participating at the present time. As a part of this program the Social Security Administration will distribute...

Scope and Contents Handwritten letter, written in blue ink, reads as follows: Mrs. John Patton, Director. Mrs. Pearl Smith, President. Dear Golden Agers, A most hearty and sincere Thank you, for your beautiful plant and get well cards sent me during my long stay at the hospital. The knowledge of your prayers and thoughts helps brighten the long hours of my illness. To know that such a wonderful organization as The Golden Agers took time to send messages of [illegible] to a sick...

Scope and Contents Card is addressed to Ethelwyn Rae Bailey. White card features an illustration of a musical organ. On the inside left of the card is a newspaper clipping, which reads as follows: Mrs. Helen Corcoran. Funeral services for Mrs. Helen Corcoran, 72, of 425 Goodrich ave., will be held at 9 am Monday in St. James Catholic Church. [...] Mrs. Corcoran, a lifelong resident of St. Paul, died of a heart ailment Friday in St. Luke's hospital. Until her retirement in 1955, she was...

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White card reads as follows:

Your kind expression of sympathy is gratefully acknowledged and deeply appreciated. The family of Helen Yancey.

My Dear Miss Bailey, How very lovely of you to write the beautiful remarks about mother. They were so perfectly expressed and I shall cherish them. I thank you and the other ladies for caring so far to pay your respects. It meant a great deal to me to have you there.

With love, Helen M.

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Color print. Depicts a group of people leaning over the banister of an exhibit to touch a handcrafted canoe.

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Color print.

Scope and Contents An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows: Muriel Humphrey, widow of Hubert H. Humphrey has accepted the post of US Senator from Minnesota. She has been an active campaigner for Hubert in the past, and now she wants some of the unfinished legislation that was started by her late husband, she said. She has been assured by her doctor that she is in "excellent health," and will give Minnesota "full representation" during the remainder of the...

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An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows:

Diana Ross is being sought as the star of a planned screen biography of the late dancer, Josephine Baker. Slated to go before the cameras in the summer of 1981, the movie will carry a budget of 15 million dollars.