Newspaper Article

C & O Railroad Tunnel Collapse in Richmond, VA - October 5, 1925

Huge yawning cracks, opening with fearful rapidity, over the entire section of Jefferson Park Hill where the big steam shovel had been cutting away tons of earth in the effort to reach the engineer and negro workman who were caught underneath the cave-in of the Chesapeake and Ohio tunnel, off Nineteenth Street, late Friday afternoon caused the officials in charge of the rescue work to abandon that steam shovel at 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon.

Many of the gaping openings in the side of the hill measured many feet in width and went to a distance of thirty feet or more, so numerous were the openings that the hillside near the scene of the tragedy resembled a giant cake that had been broken into bits by a family of hungry urchins.

R/R Tunnel Collapse - Streets Above Tunnel Closed - October 7, 1925

Deeming it unwise to allow vehicular traffic across Twenty-first Street at Marshall, a point immediately over the Church Hill tunnel, and not far from the site of the recent break, Mayor J. Fulmer Bright and Director of Public Safety James R. Sheppard, Jr., last night issued an order closing to vehicular traffic that space, to remain closed until the break in the tunnel is open, and the tunnel declared perfectly safe in every respect.

Foxo Reardon - Bridgeton Boy Head Cartoonist in South - 1926

Many will remember F. X. Reardon, Bridgeton boy whose clever cartoons made a distinct hit several years ago in the Evening News.

Reardon naturally found the field for his work here a bit limited and when the opportunity arose he went to Richmond, Va., and took a position on the Times-Dispatch. The young man was just 18 when he went south in 1923.

Today he is editorial cartoonist and art director on that daily which incidentally has increased its circulation by leaps and bounds until today it has 53,000 daily and 59,000 on Sunday. In the three years Reardon has forged ahead by the pay envelope route as well as to the top of the paper's art staff

Lady Wonder, The Mind-Reading Horse - July 18, 1927

And here is a mare, 3-years-old, black, with four white feet and three white stockings, the granddaughter of a thoroughbred race horse, which stands indolently in a barnyard and spells the maiden name of Dr. Machlachlan's wife when none in the audience save Dr. and Mrs. Machlachlan knows it!

"Lady" Carries Blood of Great, "Saturday" -  December 7, 1928

Lady Wonder bears evidence of her infusion of warm blood, inherited through both sire and dam coming from Saturday, thoroughbred son of the mighty Hanover and Vacation, daughter of Tom Ochiltree and Minnie Me, she by the renowned race horse Planet, son of Revenue and Nina by Boston, he Virginia's native son and a power in turf and stud book annals.