Elizabeth, Do the newspaper clippings mention any locations. You might could narrow down your field of search that way. Elizabeth Whitaker wrote: > >> I bought a book at a library book sale this Fall and, when I opened >> it recently, noticed that >> the previous owner had kept some newspaper clippings as well as a >> black & white >> snapshot of a small boy in the book. >> >> The small boy is identified as John Fleetwood Speer and as being 4 >> years old. There is >> no identification info in the book or on the book, which is a >> biography (1952) of >> the famous Southern advice columnist, Dorothy Dix. The newspaper >> clippings all >> seem to date from the middle and late 1940s. Judging from the few >> childhood photos >> I've seen of my dad (b. 1934) and his siblings, this kid was probably >> born between >> about 1933 and 1950. >> >> I've posted messages about the photo on both a Rootsweb message board >> devoted >> to reuniting people and family photos and on Listowners-L. (I'm the >> admin of >> Bryson-L.) >> >> I'll be happy to send the clippings and the photo to Mr. Speer or to >> anyone who can >> prove a close relationship to him. I cannot pay for any sort of >> special shipping or >> special handling. (I am a very broke Clemson graduate student.) >> >> Elizabeth Whitaker >> whitake@clemson.edu >> > > > ==== SC-OLD-PENDLETON-DIST Mailing List ==== > Join RootsWeb WorldConnect Program > For details on how to submit your GEDCOM > Visit http://www.rootsweb.com > Scroll down to Other Tools/Resources > > > >

> Elizabeth, > Do the newspaper clippings mention any locations. You might could narrow > down your field of search that way. Sorry. I knew I forget to include some information. From what I can tell, all the newspaper clippings are from Atlanta newspapers, which doesn't necessarily mean anything, especially this close to Atlanta. One clipping is from a Sunday newspaper: it is a color Ripley's "Believe It or Not" item, which would have run in a Sunday comics section. Whoever cut these clippings out went to a lot of trouble to not include the city and newspaper name, which is pretty typical: as a student assistant in Clemson's archives, I've spent time trying to identify dates and newspaper names in clippings in the files of a major public figure of the first three-quarters of the 20th century. I'm in my forties and have spent most of my life in Georgia, the Carolinas and eastern Tennessee. In almost all this area, it was pretty routine to be able to find a newstand that sold the Sunday Atlanta newspaper -- and I grew up reading it as a Sunday ritual. Elizabeth Whitaker