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...patient, one day in 1914, Dr. James Thomas Clack, country doctor of Wadley, Ala. (pop. 527), saw swirling red spots before his eyes. When he got to his call, he found he could not even read his thermometer. Realizing that he was losing his sight, he groped his way home, decided that retinal hemorrhages were ending his career...
Touring the last 18 holes without once getting into a trap or taking more than two putts on a green, Defending Champion Jennings chalked up 149 and his third U. S. Senior championship. Four strokes behind was Texan John K. Wadley, 63, who set a new tournament record with a 72 on his final round...
...mystery. Rugged old Mr. Austin once declared: "I have two sons, and half a million would probably make loafers out of them. . . . The boys will appreciate it more if they have to dig the money out themselves." The people who will do the digging now are J. K. Wadley of Texarkana and H. L. Hunt of Tyler, Texas. Mr. Hunt bought out the interests of Columbus Marion ("Dad") Joiner, the oldtime wildcatter who brought in the East Texas oil field in 1930. Mr. Wadley got his start on Louis iana & Arkansas R. R., made a fortune in Porter-Wadley Lumber...
...front of the Vanderbilt house so that Mrs. Whitney, Countess Széchényi and their brigadier brother might step quickly into them. On Fifth Avenue, curious crowds watched these and 14 other limousines sweep royally downtown. Three vans bore away the flowers, some of which earned Florists Wadley & Smythe $5,000. At South Ferry on the Battery the funeral procession rolled aboard two chartered ferryboats, to bear Mrs. Vanderbilt in her bronze casket across the same body of water on which "Commodore" Cornelius Vander Bilt, her illiterate grandfather-in-law, made his start as a ferryman and founded...
...weekly newspapers of this county, in which are located the towns of Bartow, Louisville, Wadley and Wrens, have made no mention of the deaths of these men. The daily papers of the state have failed to report the actions of the mob, and the news-gathering agencies have made no effort to report the situation to their members in other states. No local correspondents for the dailies can be found who have made reports, perhaps because of a rule in the book of instructions sent to local correspondents by the daily newspapers of Georgia: If a white man is murdered...