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Above, from a
legal notice in an Adirondack newspaper, is some text from the 1910 version
of a law allowing courts to send females under 16 to a state training school
for girls if found, among other described behavior patterns, “willfully disobedient to parent or
guardian,” “in danger of becoming morally depraved” or “is a vagrant.” The
latter could be read as being a “runaway.”
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