Prison keeper starts USs only prison zoo in Raleigh
Bill Campbell, lifelong inmate at the state pen and his helper Otto Wood run a jailyard zoo built from scraps. The men profit from drinks and snacks to inmates to fund the collection, which includes rats, a Texas ant bear, chinchillas, pheasants, rabbits, possums, snakes, an Airedale dog and Angus the goat. The 12 cages, cost about 100, and are praised by prison officials for sparking inmate interest.
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Bill Campbell
Otto Wood
NEA
Raleigh
N. C
State Penitentiary
United States
Campbell
Angus
Camphbell-Wood
George Ross Pou
Mr. Pou
Recital at Mrs Cook Home Highlights Local Pups
Friday evening Ashford residents attended a piano recital at Mrs W W Cook s home featuring Daphna Deese Pauline Crooms Gwendolyn McLendon Hubert Deese and others. After the program guests enjoyed punch and salted nuts.
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Ashford
Alt
W. W. Cook
Gallop
Geo. L. Spaulding
Daphna Deese
L. Gobbaerts
Pearl Wiggins
Mountain Inn
Carl Bohm
Grace Mullins
Gavotte
Karl Beechter
Ludwig Reak
Willie Ruth Meadows
Paul Wachs
Gwendolyn McLendon
Eula Jeffcoat
Cook
Cain
Wyatt Cain
Methodist Missionary Society
John Sellers
W. H. Herrington
J. H. Adams
W. R. Buntin
W. W. Conk
Wv. C. Bruner
Lester Rodney
Webb Wells
Willis Perry McArthur
Lambert
H. C. Lambert
Santa Claus
Sanford Pate
Bob Gambie
Wi Cook
Jack Gheesling
Wyatt Wells
Willisberry McArthur
E. B. Johnson
Silent German Shepherd Aids Sound Film In Hollywood
NEA Los Angeles Bureau reports Monee a 3 year old German police dog will act on silent commands to help solve Hollywood’s problem with spoken commands in sound films. The dog’s ability to obey silence could preserve the realism of animal scenes and avoid breaking the film’s sound effect.
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NEA
Los Angeles
Monee
Hag
Hollywood
Waring
Cox
Poe
Hoover Years Began Big Tasks in White House
Hoover's first year in the White House, 1929, saw ambitious agendas across foreign and domestic policy. He pushed for diplomatic strength, farm relief, tariff reform, debt settlements, and law enforcement reforms while Congress addressed the Farm Board, tax cuts, and lingering tariff questions. The year included stock market aftermath, business outreach, and the start of several commissions on public lands and child welfare, with many initiatives awaiting fuller action in a divided Congress.
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Rodney Dutcher
NEA
Washington
Hoover Administration
Congress
Herbert Hoover
South America
Hoover
Federal Farm Board
House
Unien
America
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Victor Moulton
Mrs. Cook
Personsis
John Henry
Witherington
Dothan
Annie King
University of Alabama
Willie King
Edwin Bruner
Bill Bruner
Auburn
C. C. Yates
Pensacola
Fla
G. J. Parrish, Sr
Tom Nowell
Peidmont College
Joe Nowell
C. C. Hall
J. W. Baughman
Eugenia Baughman
A. B. Alford
India Evans
Simon Evans
John Browder
Montgomery
Simon ,Evans
Steven Hollis
Newton
Oscar Clark
L. H. Baughman
Jakin, Ga
White House
London
MacDonald
Means
Senate Finance
Senar
Paris
France
Stimaon
Senate
George Wickersham
Treasury
Department of Justice
Wahlington
Busness
National Business Survey Conference
Julius H. Barnes
Caraway Committee
Senator Bingham
Connecticut
William B. Shearer
Shearer
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Couzens
Michigan
Power Trust
Radio Trust
Pennsylvania
Vadis
New Revolution
Guaymas
Nce
Che Vassonceliate
Department of the Interior
Plutarco Ellias
Mexico
Mexico City
Jose Vasconcelos
Sonora
Greystone
Chas
A. Johann
Mer
R.W. Plant, Mer
City Auto Co
Unites
Goodyear
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