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...Sudbury, Mass., just across the grove from the school of Mary's famed little lamb (where 16 tots are studying the three R's) and scarcely a stone's throw from the Wayside Inn, is the fine old colonial home of the late Buckley Howe. In it, 30 boys started living, working and studying last week. They were state wards of 14 and 15 years, selected by Henry Ford and the Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Welfare to be undergraduates of the Wayside Inn Trade School. Nobody pays their tuition. They will sow seeds, grind grains, bake bread...
...crowd of anxious dark faces at a fortune teller's door, waiting to be told what numbers to bet on in a gambling game. He paints the same crowd, their black skins grey in the light of a jungle moon, capering through the mad tendrils of a mango grove...
...Sharon, Pa., Feb. 14.-Entering a crowded room at Mine No. 5 school between Mercer and Grove City, at 2 p.m. today, Mrs. Jack McCall, aged 30, wife of a coal miner, pulled a butcher knife from beneath her long coat and drew it across the throat of her 7-year-old son, Lawrence, severing the boy's jugular vein and causing his death in a few moments...
Elected. Carl F. Danner, president & treasurer of the Pine Grove Tanning Co., Pine Grove, Pa., to be president of the American Hide & Leather Co.; to succeed John C. Lilly, resigned. To the new office of chairman of the directorate was elected Claude Douthuit, a director...
...Mississippi. To bestow it properly upon the U. S., Governor Dennis Murphree did not rely on his own eloquence but turned to pungent, quizzical onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator John Sharp Williams, who went to Vicksburg for the occasion from his retirement on his gardenia-fragrant plantation, "Cedar Grove," near Yazoo City, Miss...