ADOPTS 300 CHILDREN.
Mr Charles Page, of Tulsa, Okla, reputed to be worth £1,000,000, has adopted 300 children, and hopes to increaso tho numlxr to a thousand before he dies. Do has provided that the bulk of his estate shall go toward aiding poor children, and in maintaining a home which ho has built at Sand Springs, a suburb of Tulsa. Mr Page (the London Express says) has built a street car line to tho home for the convenience of the children, who are picked up daily from the poor homes' of the city. He has promised tliat any boy or girl who completes the course in tho free school which he conducts at the home can elect to go free to any college for further education.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 September 1913, Page 3
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127ADOPTS 300 CHILDREN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 September 1913, Page 3
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