Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1912 — BUYS BABY AND RETURNS IT [ARTICLE]

BUYS BABY AND RETURNS IT

Purchaser's Scheme to Rouse Public Interest In Poverty Stricken Family Successful.

Pottsville, Pa.—Pathetic was the advertisement recently of Mrs. Henry Walker, a widow of Tamaqua, who offered her Infant baby for sale, ascribing as her reason that she was too poor to provide for it Many offered to purchase the babe and it was finally turned over to a woman who paid the mother flO for it The purchaser never intended to keep the child, [but succeeded in arousing action on the part of several friends charitably inclined. After keeping the child tor a few hours, it was returned to the overjoyed mother, with the excuse that it cried too much for the new owner to keep it Provision was made for a good home for both mother and baby.