HELPING THE POOR
HUMBLE HOME IN LONDON. AMERICA’S RICHEST WOMAN. LONDON, May 7. “The world is in such a mess that 1 guess it is up to us who have the money to help out the bottom dogs.” Mrs. Pindar Hemmerde, daughter of a Chicago meat-packer and reported to be America’s richest woman, made this statement to a representative of thi. Daily Sketch, who found her living in a humble bed sitting room in the Earl’s Court district. “lam renouncing society and devoting my fortune to charity,” she ex plained. “Yes. I am really serious 1 have come over here to study British charitable methods. “I am quite sincere in my deter mination to quit society and the stupid social round of the gilded classes to which I have belonged.” The 'Daily Sketch says that Mrs Hemmerde’s husband died in 1927. He made a large fortune in Florida real estate boom.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 117, 20 May 1932, Page 7
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