The Press: Odds & Ends: Aug. 31, 1931

The Dayton (Ohio) Daily News is owned by James Middleton Cox, three-time Governor of the State, onetime (1920) Democratic candidate for the Presidency. Last week Mr. Cox's Daily News announced an experiment, charitable, interer—making, reader-getting. The paper had Discovered that in the nearby Miami valley "there are thousands of bushels of wheat selling at such a low price that a great deal of it will be fed to farm animals this winter ... a plenitude of supplies, and yet want involving more families than have ever gone hungry in the history of this...

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