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TB&Jt&&& f NOON EDITION ONE CENT if m m CONTRACTORS TURN DOWN MEN'S DEMANDS MILLINER SUES RICK MAN KAUFF CASE IS CAUSE OF THE LATEST BASEBALL SENSATION THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL. 4, NO. 182 Chicago, Friday, April 30, 1915 398 WHITE SLAVERY STORY INVOLVES PROCURESS Grace Davis TellsHow She Was Lured From Milwau-? kee Department Store to Chicago Man Accused in Story Is Sent to Bridewell. Grace Davis is an orphan. When she was a very little girl a young married, couple took her from a Mil waukee asylum and decided they would bring her up to womanhood. But later they "had some children of their own. Grace no longer had a home. She felt neglected. The time of the parents, who fo'rmerly lavished care and affection on her, was given over to their own children. Her place in the family dwindled down to a serving maid. Pretty and 18 years old, boys came to see her, but they did not take 'her out She wondered and flanlly dis covered they were ashamed to be seen on the street with her. Then she asked her foster parents if she could go to work nd earn money enough to buy some clothes. She did not tell them of the good times she had missed because she had to wear the worn-out, discarded clothes of her foster mother. She had grown tired of hearing the expression, "Oh that's good enough; for her," and when they called her an "ungrateful creature" she left the only home she had ever known and went to work. Department stores in Milwaukee pay no better wages than those in Chicago and Grace existed and that was all Next to her at the counter worked, a pretty, jolly-looking girl, who dress ed well and was constantly talking about the good times she was having. Grace noticed how tired she ap peared some morning and how a. few minutes, spent with, that htle vanity