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...University of Kansas psychology class, she heard a lot about the advantages of a well-groomed appearance, a pleasant manner, and a cheerful outlook in getting along in the world. Golden-haired Elva Wallace, 19, who is almost as impressionable as she is pretty, got to thinking. She had plenty of manner and outlook but not enough clothes to match them...
Last December Elva walked into Kansas City's swank Harzfeld's store, charmed a clerk into selling her nearly $300 worth of clothes on someone else's charge account. By the time the fraud was discovered, Elva had gone back to the campus at Lawrence, distributed a good bit of the stuff as Christmas presents to friends, and settled down with her new clothes to enjoy a new popularity...
...letter to God, from a ten-year-old named Louise, asking for $20 ("I need it badly") was opened by Miss Elva Forncrook of Detroit's Associated Charities...
...address of Dr. Thomas O. Mabbott of Hunter College, who as I see by the article is an authority on Poe and his handwriting. I am past 81 years of age and have recently sold a pair of Sheffield plate candelabra to the Poe Shrine at Richmond, Va. (Miss) ELVA P. BARNEY...
...obligations, financial and spiritual, of marriage. Women have a deeper sense of moral responsibility than men." Said Miss Mary Zapp of Pocatello, Idaho: "The modern girl seldom finds a man who meets with her approval as a companion and who still earns as much as she does." Mrs. Elva Wilcox of New Jersey said: "All men and women would marry if they could. It is all a question of romance, which some never find and others...