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Editor of the Raleigh, Va. News and Observer, son of Josephus Daniels, Ambassador to Mexico, 36-year-old Jonathan Daniels began his tour of exploration at Arlington National Cemetery. On through Williamsburg, Author Daniels drove his Plymouth, wondering if he could locate in Warrenton the poker game that is said to have been going on ever since the Civil War, with hands descending from father to son. After he had driven through the textile towns of the Carolinas-Gastonia, Kannapolis, Spartanburg-he began to note the mansions of the Coca-Cola millionaires, and to speculate about their significance. "Wealth...
...cotton farmers who were short of help offered cotton pickers in Warren County 75? a 100 lb., plus a drink of corn whisky morning and evening. Following this, farmers in Warren County, where pickers were getting 40? a 100 lb. and no drinks, took shotguns to their fields. Said Warrenton's Sheriff, G. P. Hogan...
Julian C. Eisenstein, Warrenton, Missouri--Warrenton High School...
...first son born to Daniel Howell, Warrenton, Ga. blacksmith, was killed in the Civil War. Last week Blacksmith Howell's 22nd child was indicted by a Federal grand jury in Atlanta for misusing WPA funds. And Blacksmith Howell's 23rd and last offspring declared that the charge marked the beginning of a New Deal "reign of terror" in Georgia...
President Hoover first announced his debt holiday plan last month on a Saturday. Then he hurried off to his Rapidan camp for a weekend rest. Early Monday morning he started back to Washington. At Warrenton, Va., he stopped his car, bought an early edition of the Washington Post. As he began to read it, his eye fell on a story in which the political effects of his action were discussed by the impartial United Press. Set forth was the obvious fact that the President's proposal had greatly improved his prestige and helped his chances of reelection...