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Show TYLER DESCENDANT Miss Mattie R. Tyler. Miss Mattie R. Tyler, aged seventy, seven-ty, a granddaughter of former President Tyler, is here shown entering en-tering the White House, where she pleaded with President Wilson to help her regain the postoffice at Courtland, Va. She has been postmistress post-mistress there for seventeen years, at a salary of $700 a year, which was sufficient to support her and her sister. sis-ter. Recently, another was appointed to succeed her. The president was obliged to tell the aged woman that he could not help her, as sho lost her position through civil service rules. |