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...Atlanta, Ga., Negro Willie Boston shuffled into a municipal hospital with a two-hour-old baby in her arms, demanded to know if it was "all right." Assured it was, she admitted she was the babe's mother, trudged off with it to resume her housework...
...outstanding new singer sat with her bad foot propped up, wrapped in a clumsy, grey woolen sock. That Philadelphia neighborhood represented home to Marian Anderson. When she was a child her father conducted a small coal & ice business nearby. Her mother went out to do white folks' housework. Marian's big day of the week was Sunday when, all stiffly starched, she went to sing at the Union Baptist Church. At 8 she was billed as "The Baby Contralto," sang Sing Me to Sleep with her dark, buxom aunt. The Negro parson was Marian Anderson's first...
...interpreter of songs. Her family, driven out by Arabs, left Yemen when she was 4. On the long trek to Palestine her father was killed. Her mother died shortly after. Young Sarah grew up in an orphanage until she was old enough to get a place doing housework...
...Housework Hands Araby's Hand-Veil Ironing Board Back
...Nation, one L. C. Solen advertised as follows: "Expectant, unmarried mother, in need of temporary, quiet nice lome, nearby country. Able to pay minimum amount and assist with minor housework...