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BEDFORD COOK – INDUSTRIAL HOME

Children for Adoption

[People’s Press, 20 June 1905]

Bedford Cook, an old resident of this section, died at the County Home on Tuesday last at the advanced age of 81 years of hemorrhage of the kidneys. He was committed from Crowland and had been in the Home for five years and four months. The body was claimed by relatives and buried at Port Robinson.

There are three little boys in the Home that are offered for adoption. One is a baby, the others aged six and seven years respectively.

Sixty inmates in the Home yesterday.

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