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The black-and-white print in the circular metal container that holds the oldest jumble of her family photos surprised Margo Bartlett. It was of the father she hardly knew and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt examining issues of The Vindicator at the Youngstown Public Library in 1939.
Bartlett, now of Delaware, Ohio, welcomes any information beyond what the caption states: “Mrs. Roosevelt and Laurence Bartlett, state supervisor, at the Youngstown Vindicator unit of the WPA Newspaper Index Project in the Youngstown Public Library, Oct. 27, 1939.”
“It’s news to me that my father was the state supervisor of the WPA Newspaper Index Project, though his master’s was in journalism,” said Bartlett, herself a columnist and writer with ThisWeek Community Newspapers in the Columbus area.
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One example is your response to the uplifting story of Jacquez Worthy by Theodore Decker, the Dispatch metro columnist.
Worthy, who goes by Jackie, smiled constantly, even though he was missing his front teeth, which had been knocked out when he stepped in front of a fist to protect his girlfriend. People he had befriended on his Grove City sanitation route were so taken by his kindness in their daily lives that they returned the favor by launching a GoFundMe account to help him secure new teeth.