Miscellany, Jun. 1, 1931

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Family

At Fort Madison, Iowa, four years ago, Roy Lewis Gray, 43-year-old clothing merchant, was filled with strange emotions when American Magazine singled him out as the average American Citizen.*

In Indianapolis last week a family of Browns was filled with the same emotions by the same cause.

The Average American Family was that of Sales Manager Merrill Jerry Brown, 44, of Pitman-Moore Co., pharmaceutical manufacturers. It is composed of Mr. & Mrs. Brown, Daughter Louise, 15, and Son John, 13. They have an eight-room house, a sedan, a radio, a piano....

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