Word: mortgagee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Smith Brothers are pillars of their community; they run the finest gambling joint in Reno, Nev. Harold's Club (named for the older brother) earns more than a million silver dollars every year, making it the nation's biggest. The Smith boys are always ready to do...
Double Insurance. The office is a pleasant, airy room with polished brass desk ornaments, a gilded telephone, and a view of green Arkansas forests across the big river. It is not only a political nerve center but headquarters for one of the South's largest insurance and mortgage loan...
Gus and Elda bought the old Weaver homestead, which had passed out of the family. The early years were hard, but the Kuesters pulled through, says Gus, "by chickens, hogs and going without." They pulled through also thanks to the patient devotion of Elda Kuester. Over the years hogs paid...
Gus achieved the greatest success a farmer can have: he kept his son on the farm. He did it by letting Dale earn his own money from boyhood on. A few years ago Gus cut Dale in on the hogs. Now they are in partnership, 50-50 on costs and...
Although the mortgage was slated originally to be paid off along with taxes, by rent from the Crimson Printing Company, who rented the building in back and the basement floor, and from the Alumni Bulletin, which occupied one of the front offices, part of it is still outstanding.