Business: Heirs

One rainy night last month William Zielsdorf, a serious little German who keeps a nursery in McLough, Kans. settled down to listen to the radio. Soothed by the music and the rich, fruity tones of announcers, William Zielsdorf dozed. Suddenly he sat bolt upright. An exciting voice had just said :

Are you the heir to $10,000?

Are you the heir to $50,000?

Are you one of America's missing heirs?

The excited voice explained that a circus performer named Edward Lusein had died in Chicago leaving $16,000 and no apparent heirs. Then radio actors, MARCH-OF-TIME...

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