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Scope and Contents An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows: The Golden Agers of the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center proclaimed June 5 as Ethelwyn Bailey Day, in honor of Mrs. Bailey who is a charter member of the club and the first president. Since the honoree was unable to join the group at the all day outing at Camp X on that day, members stopped enroute to visit her. [...] The Camp X outing included games, good food and fun, with each member receiving a gift from the...

Scope and Contents An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows: "When it comes time to depart from this world--may you all be in Heaven one-half hour before the Devil knows you're dead" is typical of the series of stories and jokes that Joe Donovan, secretary of State emeritus, kept the nearly three hundred persons in stitches with at the annual pre-Thanksgiving dinner last Tuesday noon in the Martin Luther King Center given by the Hallie Q. Brown Golden Agers.When I...

Scope and Contents An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows: Tay Pay Borden was born of Irish-Swedish parentage in St. Paul April 6, 1896. He attended St. John's parochial school in St. Paul and graduated from St. Thomas college in 1912. He served two years in France in World War I. There he fell in love with a French girl, Henriette Labee, who died a few years ago. Their son, Richard, was killed in a car accident in 1959. Borden served in WOrld War II in the Minnesota...

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This newspaper clipping features an image of a cat laying with their babies, a kitten and two rabbits. The caption to the photograph reads as follows:

When four of her five kittens were taken away, Midnight didn't brood. Instead the black Chicago cat kidnaped two baby rabbits to [play] with her remaining kitten. She is the pet of Eleanor Dask.

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Pink greeting card with purple letting reads as follows:

Little squares of paper, little dabs of ink, Little words of friendliness That tell the things you think, Little bows of ribbon to trim it up just fine, A little curiousity Just like yours and mine--The answer to this puzzel Isn't really hard, You'll find it all collected On a little Greeting Card.

Scope and Contents An article from the newspaper clipping reads as follows: The Committee on Older People of the Greater St. Paul Case Work council of the Community Chest and Council is studying the problems of more than 26,000 men and women past 65 in St. Paul. Social and educational programs for older people are being set up as an outgrowth of this work. Monthly birthday parties for oldsters at Hallie Q. Brown house, 553 AUrora ave., an agency of the Chest, are crowded and spirited...

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Two pages containing names, addresses, birthdays, dues, and club status of Golden Agers Club members. Their names read as follows:

Ethelwyn Rae Bailey; Alberta Davis; Rose Endress; Leonia Goodman; Mrs. W.H. Hamilton; Anna Johnson; Mildred Mehrman; R. Idele Patton; Timothy Percell; Mary Ann Reilly; Pearl E. Smith; Mr. and Mrs. Watts-Fieldon; Mr. and Mrs. William White; and Emma Hyde.

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Black and white print depicting 11 people standing on the steps to Hallie Q. Brown Community House on 553 Aurora Ave. There is a ghost image present.

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Black and white print depicting a man sitting on the table top of a park bench, talking to four others, seated in front of him.

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Black and white print depicting a man and a woman standing next to each other on a sidewalk.