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West Virginia University Morgantown...
...subsistence farms" for which the Interior Department has a $25,000,000 appropriation. The purpose of this project is to move families from city slums to small tracts of land where they can live cheaply and comfortably, raise chickens and vegetables. The first locality selected was Morgantown, W. Va., the second Dayton. Dayton had already evolved a similar scheme to relieve its pressing unemploy ment problem, had set up social agencies to teach destitute families to bake bread, can fruit, repair shoes, make furniture...
...Morgantown...
...miniature electric range, bought it and a tea set and some toy cooking utensils. Next day Mrs. Hoover gave Peggy Ann and Herbert III a White House party for 250 children who were instructed to bring presents. These gifts were rebundled and shipped to destitute miners' families at Morgantown. W. Va. whom the Quakers are helping to relieve. As usual on Christmas morning Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey came down the State dining room chimney disguised as Santa Claus and as usual the President got clown on the floor to play with his grandchildren's mechanical toys...
...Morgantown, W. Va., Jessie Jolliffe decided to commit suicide. He paid all his bills, then called on an undertaker, asked the price of a funeral. The undertaker told him. Jessie Jolliffe objected, started a fight. Police arrested him. a judge sentenced him to six months in jail...