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Mrs. William DuBois

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Mrs. William DuBois

The following unidentified newspaper article was found in a scrapbook owned by Town Historian Richard Schmal:

    Mrs. Wm. DuBois Winner in Big National Contest

    Mrs. William DuBois, 417 ½ E. Commercial, Lowell, has submitted a winning entry in the Sealy $500,000 Posturepedic Contest, it was announced today by Sealy, Inc., Chicago, manufacturers of mattresses and convertible sleep furniture.

    The winner, who will receive a Posturepedic mattress from Esser Home Furnishings, 306 Commercial, Lowell, where the contest was offered locally, is now being considered for a grand prize of $20,000 in cash or common stocks or an expense-paid vacation for two in Jamaica via Delta Air Lines.

    Entrants were asked to choose a name for the Sealy Posturepedic Girl, widely used in advertising the mattress. The contest, one of the largest ever held, drew hundreds of thousands of entries from every section of the United States and Canada.

Last updated on October 18, 2006.

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