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The Herald
Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia
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In Chicago, 5-year-old Nancy Drury from Louisville, Kentucky, a polio patient featured on March of Dimes posters, met 4.5-year-old Rita Reed from Blue Island, Illinois, another poster child, on January 12. Rita greeted Nancy with a bouquet as Nancy traveled to New York to launch the national campaign.
Merged-components note: Continuation of 'March of Dimes Girls Meet' across pages; relabel to domestic_news as it describes a news event rather than formal notice.
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Chicago, Ill.,--The two little girls, both Infantile Paralysis patients, whose pictures grace the thousands of official March Of Dimes Posters throughout the country, met last Sunday, January 12, for the first time, in Chicago.
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Nancy Drury, 5, of Louisville, Kentucky, arrived at Union Station. There to greet her was little Rita Reed 4 1/2 year old Negro child, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Reed, 3241 West 139th Street, Blue Island, and whose picture is also on thousands of official posters. Rita presented her with a bouquet. Also present to greet Nancy, who was enroute to New York to open the March of Dimes campaign nationally, was Mrs. Frances L. Karlsteen, Executive Secretary, Cook County Chapter, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, and a group of campaign workers.
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Chicago, Ill.
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Last Sunday, January 12
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nancy drury enroute to new york to open the march of dimes campaign nationally
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Nancy Drury, 5, of Louisville, Kentucky, arrived at Union Station in Chicago and was greeted by Rita Reed, 4 1/2 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Reed of Blue Island, who presented her with a bouquet. Also present were Mrs. Frances L. Karlsteen, Executive Secretary of the Cook County Chapter, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, and a group of campaign workers. Both girls are Infantile Paralysis patients whose pictures are on official March of Dimes posters.