THE LARRY PETERSON STORY I

Newspaper article: Orphans' Home Runaway Lives 2 Weeks in Foxhole An 11-year old runaway from the Iowa Solders' Orphans' Home, Davenport, was found by Rock Island police Sunday sleeping in his "foxhole" home behind a billboard near Third avenue and Eighteenth Street. The boy, Larry Peterson, who ran away from the home two weeks ago, told authorities he was "big enough to get along by himself." He said he did "odd jobs" around Rock Island and at night crawled into his home--a hole hollowed in the ground behind the billboard. When it became chilly he pulled a few boards over the top of the hole. Ragged and barefoot, the boy was returned to the home for orphans in Davenport.