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Show SELLS HEART FOR 5,000 TO SAVE SISTER'S LIFE Advertised for Husband Because Be-cause She Didn't Know How Else to Get Money. Indianapolis. Down In sun-parched Arizona, fighting a battle with that dread disease, tuberculosis, is a young woman, Miss Martha Bailey by name, who actually beams with joy when you ask her about her family and she starts -telling you about her sister, Amelia, now Mrs. Eugene Ells-woslh Ells-woslh of Indianapolis. For it was Amelia who gave her s chance to win back health. And Amelia Ame-lia did it by selling herself to a man who had $5,000 that be was willing to pay for a good-looking wife who could cook. Worked as Stenographer. Amelia was working in Indianapolis as a stenographer when word came trom her home back in Johnson coun- Jm 1 &) Responses to the Appeal Were Numerous. Nu-merous. ty, Indiana, that Martha had been stricken with the white plague and should be sent to Arizona. The seventeen-year-old stenographer had a few dollars saved up and couldn't for the life of her think how she could help. Then a boy friend from her home town suggested that she marry a man with money. But Amelia didn't know any men who had money. Put Ad on Poster. The fiiend suggested she advertise. Newspapers wouldn't accept the ad. Then the friend said she should design de-sign a poster and he would put it up in the Indianapolis Pen and Brush club, where he worked. Responses to the appeal lor a husband hus-band with $5,000 were immediate and numerous. The letter from Eugene Ellsworth, a young business man, , stirred Amelia strangely and she invited in-vited him to call. He did, fell in love with the girl and married her. Now they are happy and Martha is in Arizona Ari-zona fighting for her1 health. |