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I have added a little bit of my own words. They are in Italics. Well a customer of mine said one day, let me give you a reading, that was her business. I said all right. She told me I was going to be married within six months. I said go on, I don’t evenContinue reading “Agnes meets Will Royal and talks about her beauty shop in her own words”

The following is taken from the book that Audrey Bake put together for her children. I have copied it word for word. (If you see some thing in Italics, those are words I added) It begins with a letter from Evelyn who has just had lunch with Agnes and Harriet and they have decided toContinue reading “The Christie’s”

Alexander Wiseman Christie was Agnes Gray’s Grandfather on her Mom’s side of the family. From an article in the newspaper January 22, 1900. Well-known Barber dies suddenly at Lake Park Attacked with Heart Failure While Fishing. Alexander W.  Christie, who has been the proprietor of numerous barber shops in the city for the past 34Continue reading “Alexander Wiseman Christie”

October, 1924 P.S.E.A. News Page Nine Section Chairman Year 1924 (No. 10 of a Series) John T. Gray, connoisseur of the beautiful, made his appearance in this world December 14, 1877, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he lived until 1902. After he graduated from the public schools he entered the employ of the Minneapolis General ElectricContinue reading “John T. Gray”