“The Winner,” from The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., June 19, 1936
As happy as any war veteran receiving his bonus bonds or any
farmer receiving his potato money was 11-year-old Joseph Dempsey of Brook
Avenue, this city, when he stepped forward Wednesday afternoon to claim the
Ford V-8 automobile given away by Elizabeth City merchants at the conclusion of
the trade and gift campaign they had been sponsoring since April 4. Young
Dempsy, holding the winning coupon for his mother, who was at home with a sick
headache, is shown beside the Ford a few minutes after being presented with the
keys. He is a son of Joseph F. Dempsy, who is employed at the Hotel Fort
Raleigh in Manteo. His mother teaches school here. The Dempseys had no tickets
at all except a long string of consecutive numbers they got when they bought a
new electric refrigerator recently. The winning ticket was about halfway thru
this string.
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