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...Aberdeen, N. C., M. S. Hawkins, tobacco "farmer," was sleeping in the cab of a truck which he had driven into a tobacco warehouse the night before, intending to unload and sell his tobacco the next day. Mr. Hawkins dreamed that he was crossing a railroad track, that his vehicle was about to be struck by an oncoming train. At that critical juncture in his dream a fast freight actually roared by along a track near the warehouse, with a jangle of bell and blast of whistle. Not waiting to open the door, Tobacco Grower Hawkins hastily dived through...
...While Queen Mary waited sadly in Buckingham Palace for the ceremony marking her departure to live in Marlborough House last week, the King and Mrs. Simpson merrily boarded a special salon railway car at Aberdeen and set out for London, it being announced by the Sunday Referee that the wild strains of Hungarian gypsy music will soon be heard in Buckingham Palace. King Edward, in addition to inviting Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kamâl Atatürk to visit him in London, has also, according to the Referee, invited Koez Antal, "Hungary's Most Famous Gypsy Bandmaster...
...King when Prince of Wales laid the cornerstone of the Royal Infirmary at Aberdeen. Last week His Majesty caused the Court Circular to appear one morning in such a manner that the first paragraph announced that Mrs. Simpson had arrived at Balmoral Castle while the second para graph said that the Duke & Duchess of York had opened the Royal Infirmary at Aberdeen. While Their Royal Highnesses were doing so. His Majesty, wearing a kilt and with a Scottish tarn o' shanter set jauntily over one ear, arrived at the Aberdeen railway station and greeted Mrs. Simpson as she alighted...
...Aberdeen, S. Dak. a cheerful, prosperous-looking crowd of 15,000 gave President Roosevelt the warmest reception of his trip. There, as in other towns along his way, he saw good clothes, smiling faces, rows of new automobiles, was assured that, though crops had failed, Fed- eral relief money spent on neighborhood building and conservation projects had kept things humming. "I understand," cried he, "some people are not in favor of planning for the future. I understand some people object to spending now in order to save for the future. But it is real economy if you spend...
...From Aberdeen, the President motored off on another side-trip, stopped at the farm of young Henry Welbus, who told him that with the help of a $1,221 Government loan he was making out, had even been able to pay back $400 of it. Up for Presidential inspection in her mother's arms went 19-month-old Darlene Welbus. Said he: "She's a fine-looking youngster." No baby-kisser is Franklin Roosevelt, but while cameras clicked he seized Darlene's hand, counted her fingers: "One, two, three, four, five...