Audubon’s Enduring Drive Turns Idea Into Fame
A 1938 McNaught Syndicate piece profiles John James Audubon born in Haiti who faced failure, debt, and imprisonment yet persisted. He eventually sold drawings in England, earned worldwide fame, and left a lasting legacy through Birds of America.
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There’s All Kinds of Reasons for Marriage and Divorce
A humorous tale from Will Rogers about a New York divorce case where a purse snatcher becomes a husband. The judge listens as the wife accuses her thief husband, then reveals the punchline that she married him for revenge after a street encounter.
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Rev S R Shreck To Lead Service At Miller School
It was announced that Rev S R Shreck a local preacher on the Wardensville Charge in West Virginia will conduct services at the Miller School tomorrow morning at 11 o clock. The public is invited.
Rites Tomorrow For Cecil Barr Jr. Child dies of whooping cough
Funeral services are set for Cecil LeRoy Barr Jr., one-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil L. Barr, who died Thursday night at 10:30. The service will be at the family residence at 2 pm with burial in Mount Hebron Cemetery. Rev. Wilbur Reed of Romney, West Virginia, will officiate. Pallbearers named are Robert Russell, Edgar Smoke Jr, Robert Anderson, and Levi Anderson Jr. He is survived by his parents, a half sister Juanita Aleshire, and grandfather William H. Barr of Shenandoah County.
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Johnson Defends New Deal Era and NRA Critique in Virginia
General Hugh Johnson spoke in Hot Springs Virginia on April 30 calling the current mood a paralysis of recovery caused by uncertain, inconsistent and ignorant fiscal and spiritual forces. He urged freeing the engines of American life from failed policy to restore prosperity and warned against monopolies and antitrust bans that threaten consumer prices and workers’ wages.
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General Johnson on Government and Capitalism Debate
General Johnson argues prosecution would worsen abuses not reduce them calling it a confusion of justice as government mixes capitalist profits with modified socialism. He says Congress is awakening and restraining Roosevelt while warning a full return of capitalism will lift the mood soon.
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Little Alcatraz Planned At Penitentiary
Richmond April 30 officials plan a "little Alcatraz" to segregate tougher inmates with a maximum security unit for 50 prisoners. A new cell block will house 350, plus east wall extension and a power house. Women prisoners will move from the penitentiary to a Goochland industrial farm after a $60,000 project to raise capacity from 65 to 225 with 110 women currently there.
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