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The City Beautiful Commission sponsored a contest to create a cartoon character and slogan to promote the Commission’s anti-litter campaign. Seven-year-old, second-grader, Stephen Hessler won the City Beautiful Commission’s anti-litter contest. The…

This letter was sent to Ms. Compton about the area she was to inspect. She was to inspect the area once per month and was asked to note: stopped up drains, dirty streets and gutters, insufficient garbage cans (less than 2), bad garbage conditions,…

In this article the writer depicts the hardships being undergone by one Mrs. Cornelia Crenshaw. She was involved in a protest against a garbage fee being added on to her electricity. In response her electricity had been shut off, and at the time this…

Report from spring 2015, HIST 4851.

The following article is about the displeasure Lois DeBerry and two other female legislators faced against a bill ending alimony payments to a person if they resided or cohabitated with a person of the opposite sex for 90 days or more. The female…

This is a sample of some of the quilt patterns from Contemporary Quilts. The top samples: Name: Quadriga 100% cotton, 44” wide, colorfast,1% shrinkage. These are $2.00/yd. Numbers 119 and 151 are named O dots, 50% cotton, 50% rayon. They are also…

Cornelia Crenshaw was born on March 25, 1916 in Millington, TN. In 1969 she refused to pay the city service fee for garbage collection and in return MLGW shut off her utilities. For the next ten years she lived without utilities until she was finally…

This document is the current resume for Marilyn Califf as of January 1977. She was born on April 27, 1932 in Memphis, TN. She graduated from Central High School in 1950 and went on to pursue a college degree. She began by attending the University of…